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The international expansion of the market for your medical product can present you with challenges – even after your product has been successfully established in your local market. The medical benefits of your product are relevant to an international market, but the significance in terms of health economics and the opportunities your product offers will vary from country to country: You will need to take into account varying demographic structures, epidemiological features and different health insurance and healthcare systems and consider the impact of these. The successful introduction of your medical product on the local market depends on the economic benefits that your product offers, notwithstanding its medical benefits and the local conditions. Cost disadvantages within a national healthcare system can prove to be a cost advantage under other conditions. We specialize in these complex analyses. We can also provide you with comprehensive support while you launch your product on the local market. We focus on an operational level and on the specific healthcare system, while relying on a trusted network of international partners. We combine your in-depth knowledge of your product with our practical experience and the know-how of our partner in your area. We take the following steps:

• • • Preparation of a detailed design of the study contents in close consultation with you
    • Selection of a suitable local end user as a partner to determine costs
    • Raising the direct and indirect costs of the application
    • Analysis of the savings potential as a result of improving the outcome and process optimization to compensate for any additional costs arising from the operational level and the specific healthcare system.
    • Follow-up and evaluation of study results and summary quantification of the economic effects
    • Development of nationally valid incentive-based refinancing strategies relating to the specific healthcare system
    • Administrative support with the preparation and follow-up of the study
    • Development of simulation tools to determine the economic benefits of your product for immediate use by your stakeholders to support purchasing decisions

If a clinic decides to use a particular medical product, the economic benefits of the product is what matters most (especially for decision-makers), in addition to the actual use of the product in everyday clinical practice. Questions arising during the decision-making phase include the following:

• • • What is it going to cost?
    • Will the cost be covered?
    • What other effects does the use of the product have?

You will be able to keep your customers well informed about non-economic pros and cons, but it is not always as easy to provide reliable data on the actual economics.

This is of paramount importance when it comes to supporting the rationale for potential customers and their decision-makers, ensuring that the marketing of the product is simplified.

We will conduct a cost-benefit observation study with you based on a sample organization in order to provide you and your customers with data that is as accurate and reliable as possible. We will involve you as experts as well as other people, if required, who would be working closely with the product in a clinical setting. What also matters to us is our understanding of an 'economic assessment' as the realistic appraisal and quantification of all economic effects – including benefits and drawbacks. Only then will we, you and your product remain credible.

Our approach:  Preparation and monitoring of studies:

• • • Design of the study contents

    • Support with the site selection

    • Monitoring the implementation of the study

    • Follow-up and evaluation of study results: Quantification of the economic effects based on the data captured at the study site

    • Administrative support with the preparation and follow-up of the studies (if required)

The emergency department is the healthcare unit that has the most contact with patients. It therefore presents staff with significant challenges in terms of modern and efficient process development. Staff have to make extremely critical decisions at regular intervals on whether patients should be admitted as inpatients or discharged as outpatients. In the case of further treatment for inpatients, follow-up resources must be used on an ad hoc basis and scheduled as efficiently as possible. Tightly organized processes, on the other hand, have a direct effect on the freeing up of capacities in the emergency department.  The outpatient can leave the hospital, ideally within one to two hours, with a doctor's letter in their pocket and a smile on their face – and the process of managing their treatment in the emergency department is thereby completed.

We combine our employees’ methodical expertise in health economics and their scientific expertise with our wealth of experience in emergency care. This enables us to offer evaluations that meet with the latest scientific standards, ensuring a high degree of practical relevance and direct transfer to emergency care. We take the following steps:

• • • Preparation of a detailed design of the study contents in close consultation with you
    • Scientific analysis of the current status quo. We examine the issue and focus on the care situation and/or the health economic effects
    • Embedding the (potential) changes in the current situation
    • Development of future-based scenarios, including the impact on the patient care and the significance in terms of health economics
    • Preparation of a report that meets the latest scientific standards.

In der Notfallversorgung haben wir unseren inhaltlichen Schwerpunkt gesetzt und können auf eine Vielzahl von Projekten auf allen Ebenen des Gesundheitssystems verweisen. Gerne nennen wir Ihnen Referenzprojekte.

We specialize in the emergency care sector and draw on our extensive experience covering an extensive range of projects at all levels of the healthcare system. We would be pleased to give you details of some of these projects.

Medical service providers

• Digitization of healthcare processes
• Expert know-how in the context of the emergency department
• Medical strategy and medical portfolio
• Operating organization (Emergency department, surgery center, Intensive care/intermediate care)

Emergency departments

• Digital emergency department
• G-BA emergency levels and MD examinations
• Redesign and remodeling
• Integrated emergency centers
• Staffing requirements
• Billing optimization (outpatients, short-term in-patients)
• KV Benchmark (emergency billing)
• Triage introduction and evaluation
• Reporting systems

Associations/Politics/Municipalities

• Care solutions and health regions
• Expert know-how in the context of the emergency department and emergency medicine