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Years of life extended, costs reduced: OECD report confirms OptiMedis` care model
If the OptiMedis Integrated Care Model were to be extended to the whole of Germany, more than 146,000 life years could be gained and almost 100,000 life years with limitations due to disabilities or illnesses could be avoided from 2022 to 2050, according to OECD modelling. In May 2023, the OECD published a groundbreaking report (Integrating Care to Prevent and Manage Chronic Diseases: Best Practices in Public Health) on integrated care models that have the potential for transnational transfer. The international best practices – including the OptiMedis model – were selected based on the criteria of effectiveness, efficiency, equity, quality of evidence and scale of care, and the long-term outcomes of cross-national transfer were modelled.
MORE NEWS
OLIVER GRÖNE RECEIVES ASSOCIATE PROFESSORSHIP FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN/HERDECKE
The University of Witten/Herdecke has awarded our Vice-Chairman of the Board, Dr Oliver Gröne (PhD, MSc), the title of Extraordinary Professor (apl. Prof.) at the Faculty of Economics and Society. The sociologist and doctor of health sciences receives the award in recognition of his extensive scientific achievements in health systems research. The focus of his work is on the complex interrelationships of structures, processes and outcomes in health care, which he has researched in many international funded projects and published in over 100 scientific publications.
ASCERTAIN: NEW HORIZON EUROPE RESEARCH PROJECT TO IMPROVE THE AFFORDABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF INNOVATIVE HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES
We are partner in the HORIZON funded project ASCERTAIN (Affordability and Sustainability improvements through new pricing, Cost- Effectiveness and ReimbursemenT models to Appraise iNnovative health
technologies) that addresses the need of patients, physicians, payers, regulators, and manufacturers to improve the affordability and accessibility to innovative health technologies (including pharmaceuticals) in Europe.
Events
19.
NOV 2024
ISPOR Europe
Join us in Poster Session 4 for: “Development and Graphical Illustration of a Data-Based Analysis Combining the Regional Distribution of Patient Cohorts With Availability, Distribution, and Caseload of In- and Outpatient Specialists”
27.-28.
NOV 2024
ADLIFE Conference
The EU-funded ADLIFE project will, by the end of November 2024, have concluded by demonstrating how its innovative digital toolbox can help provide personalised, integrated, and outcome-based care targeting the empowerment and quality of life of elderly patients with advanced chronic diseases.
LATEST Publications by or
in cooperation with us
Standards for Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services: Development and tools for implementation and measurement
Oliver Groene, Keriin Katsaros, Antonio Chiarenza, Sally Fawkes, Margareta Kristensen
Healthcare professionals have first-hand experience with patients in clinical practice and the dynamics in the healthcare system, which can be of great value in the design, implementation, data analysis and dissemination of research study results. Primary care professionals are particularly important as they provide first contact, accessible, coordinated, comprehensive and continuous people-focused care. However, in-depth examination of the engagement of health professionals in health system research and planning activities-how professionals are engaged and how this varies across national contexts- is limited, particularly in international initiatives. There is a need to identify gaps in the planning of engagement activities to inform the design and successful implementation of future international efforts to improve the responsiveness of health systems to the changing needs of patients and professionals. The aim of this study was to explore how primary care professionals were engaged in the design and implementation plans of an international health policy study led by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
In: Health Research Policy and Systems
Groene O, Katsaros K, Chiarenza A, Fawkes S, Kristenson M. Standards for Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services: Development and tools for implementation and measurement. medRxiv. 2024. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.22.24309820v1
Publications
Engaging primary care professionals in OECD’s international PaRIS survey: a documentary analysis
Candan Kendir, Michael van den Berg, Janika Bloemeke-Cammin, Oliver Groene, Frederico Guanai, Andree Rochfort, Jose M Valderas, Niek Klazinga
Healthcare professionals have first-hand experience with patients in clinical practice and the dynamics in the healthcare system, which can be of great value in the design, implementation, data analysis and dissemination of research study results. Primary care professionals are particularly important as they provide first contact, accessible, coordinated, comprehensive and continuous people-focused care. However, in-depth examination of the engagement of health professionals in health system research and planning activities-how professionals are engaged and how this varies across national contexts- is limited, particularly in international initiatives. There is a need to identify gaps in the planning of engagement activities to inform the design and successful implementation of future international efforts to improve the responsiveness of health systems to the changing needs of patients and professionals. The aim of this study was to explore how primary care professionals were engaged in the design and implementation plans of an international health policy study led by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
In: Health Research Policy and Systems
Kendir C, van den Berg M, Bloemeke-Cammin J, Groene O, Guanais F, Rochfort A, Valderas JM, Klazinga N. Engaging primary care professionals in OECD’s international PaRIS survey: a documentary analysis. Health Res Policy Syst. 2024 Jul 4;22(1):76. doi: 10.1186/s12961-024-01170-2. PMID: 38965544; PMCID: PMC11223287.
Data analysis plan of the OECD PaRIS survey: leveraging a multi-level approach to analyse data collected from people living with chronic conditions and their primary care practices in 20 countries
Peter Groenewegen, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Rob Timans, Oliver Groene, Rosa Suñol, Jose Maria Valderas, Mieke Rijken
In view of the increasing number of people with (multiple) chronic conditions, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) initiated the International Survey of People Living with Chronic Conditions (PaRIS survey), which aims to provide insight in patient-reported outcomes and experiences of chronic care provided by primary care practices to support policy development. The objective of this research note is to describe the structure of the data, collected in the PaRIS survey and how the data will be analysed in a multilevel approach for cross-country comparison.
In: BMC Research Notes
Groenewegen P, Spreeuwenberg P, Timans R, Groene O, Suñol R, Valderas JM, Rijken M. Data analysis plan of the OECD PaRIS survey: leveraging a multi-level approach to analyse data collected from people living with chronic conditions and their primary care practices in 20 countries. BMC Res Notes. 2024 Jun 6;17(1):157. doi: 10.1186/s13104-024-06815-7. PMID: 38845064; PMCID: PMC11157922.