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Professor of Health Economics at the Christan Albrechts
University of Kiel. Graduation in Mathematics, Ph. D. in
Economic Sciences.
The main field of research contains the financiation of
the public and private hospital sector in Germany and the
state´s regulation system to guarantee the necessary
number of hospitals. A further field of engagement deals
with the different financial tools of the government to
inforce more integrative structures between ambulatory and
hospital care. Adviser (scientific and political) of the
Federal Ministries (Public Health, Employment, Research),
WHO, several State Governments, Public and Private Health
Insurance Companies at the state and federal level, Medical
Schools (Universities), specialized hospitals and practitioners.
Owner and manager of hospitals which test new innovative
financing systems in public health.
Founder of the Gesellschaft für Systemberatung im
Gesundheitswesen, 1985 Kiel.
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1967 - 1972 |
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Graduation in Mathematics at the Department
of Economic Sciences at the Christian Albrecht University
of Kiel (one semester at the University of Vienna).
Last exam of Mathematics in the Economic Sciences Department
on June 1th, 1972 (with Honors) |
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1972 - 1975 |
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“Graduiertenkolleg”: Ph.
D. scholarship of the University of Hamburg. Ph. D.
in Economic Sciences at the University of Hamburg, 1975
(with Honors) |
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1976 - 1985 |
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Research Assistant, afterwards Co-Director
of the Institute of Research on Public Health Care (IGSF)
Kiel, Director: Prof. Dr. Fritz Beske |
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1977 - 1982 |
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Part-time lecturer of Health Economics
in the Department of Social Sciences and the Medical
School of the Christian Albrecht University Kiel, Germany
(Health Economics I and II, Public Health Care Systems
I and II, Hospital Regulations, State and Private Health
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1982 - 1991 |
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Member of the Robert Bosch Foundation
- Health Economics - Colloquium Series |
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1982 - 1983 |
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Part-time Lecturer of the Department
of Social Sciences at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
(Main Topics: Specific Questions of Health Economics/
Hospital Regulation) |
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1983 |
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Temporary Adviser of the World Health
Organization, Regional Office Europe (Development of
the Curriculum: Research Methodology in Health Care)
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1983 |
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Membership in Project Hope - International
Network of Health System Research |
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1984 |
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Temporary Adviser of the World Health
Organization, Regional Office Europe (Hospital Regulation
Mechanisms) |
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1985 |
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Temporary Adviser of the World Health
Organization, Regional Office Europe (Hospital Financing
Systems) |
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1985 |
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Founder, owner and CEO of the “Gesellschaft
für Systemberatung im Gesundheitswesen GSbG mbH”
Research Institute Kiel |
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1987 |
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Temporary Adviser of the World Health
Organization, Regional Office Europe (Main investigation:
The response of hospitals to the changing needs of the
population) |
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1987 - 1989 |
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Temporary Adviser of the World Health
Organization, Regional Office Europe (Main investigation:
Economic aspects and planning for the care for the elderly) |
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Since 1988 |
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1988 Founder and publisher of the Scientific
Series “Medicine and Systems Research” (9
volumes to date) |
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Since 1991 |
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Foundation and management of the Park-Klinik
Manhagen as a innovative and new model of Hospital Care
in Germany with the main target to test the functioning
of lump sums |
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1992 - 1998 |
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Standing Member of the “Fee Systems
Task Group” of the Ministry of Health Care in
Germany |
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1993 - 1996 |
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Part-time Lecturer at the Institute
for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the
Christian Albrechts University Kiel (Lectures in Hospital
Administration) |
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Since 1996 |
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Honorary Professor of Health Economics
at the Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
at the Christian-Albrechts University Kiel |
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Various lectures colloquiums at various
universities in Germany |
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Through 1984 |
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Socio-economic Modelling of Health
Care Systems |
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Since 1985 |
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Ophtalmology: First German-wide establishment
of case-based lump sums with the reference to the diagnosis
(DRG) |
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Since 1991 |
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Orthopedics: First German-wide establishment
of case-based lump sums with reference to the treatment
(PMC) |
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1995 - 1997 |
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Developed of a mathematical algorithm
"Modular Calculation and Classification System
(MOKKA),” which provides a basis for billing cost-bearers
for all services provided by hospitals |
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1996 - 1998 |
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Service-oriented basic hospital planning
including benchmarks for the services rendered by each
hospital, derived from all data-based case histories |
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1997 - 1998 |
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Financial success calculations for
the effects of care structures: Quantified intervention-related
changes in the care structure (financial and qualitative
repercussions) based on nationwide, data-based case
histories |
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1999 - 2002 |
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Quantification of inter-sectoral case
histories (services rendered and costs): Patient-related
coded analysis of service data across all sectors (acute
inpatient, physicians under contract, pharmaceutical
therapy, physical therapy, rehabilitative), plus work
and social data based on several-year case histories
and the assessment of specific interventions |
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From 2003 |
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Redistribution effects of DRG-based
hospital financing and innovative solutions on the financial
viability of university clinics
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