TY - CHAP

T1 - Information Asymmetry in the German Public Health Care Market

T2 - International Conference on the Management of Healthcare and Medical Technology - HCTM 2007

AU - Weisenfeld, Ursula

AU - Sörensen, Constanze

AU - Scherer, Christian

N1 - Conference code: 6

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - Technological development in health care leads to new processes and products aiming at improving diagnoses and therapies of diseases. Whether these are successfully introduced depends on aspects such as effectiveness and costs of the new processes and products, the way institutions support or hinder introductions and the processes of integration into health care systems. Over 90 percent of the German population are compulsory members of the public health insurance system. Here, contributions to the system are incomebased and patients receive benefits-in-kind from the catalogue of services. The remaining 10 percent receive medical services according to a contract and are entitled to a reimbursement of their medical bills ...

AB - Technological development in health care leads to new processes and products aiming at improving diagnoses and therapies of diseases. Whether these are successfully introduced depends on aspects such as effectiveness and costs of the new processes and products, the way institutions support or hinder introductions and the processes of integration into health care systems. Over 90 percent of the German population are compulsory members of the public health insurance system. Here, contributions to the system are incomebased and patients receive benefits-in-kind from the catalogue of services. The remaining 10 percent receive medical services according to a contract and are entitled to a reimbursement of their medical bills ...

KW - Management studies

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-88-903070-0-3

SP - 1

EP - 13

BT - Pisa takes a stand for responsibility in healthcare and medical technology

Y2 - 3 November 2007 through 5 November 2007

ER -