Congress presentations & activities
EHMA Conference 2024: Shaping and managing innovative health ecosystems
05 – 07 June 2024, Bucharest (Romania)
Special Interest Discussion on ethics vs economy in health care
- The theme for this conference encompassed the entire spectrum of health megatrends: from the digital transformation of healthcare systems and services to the ever-growing importance of sustainability, and the evolving skill sets required by the healthcare workforce.
- Two special interest discussions on medication management and optimization approaches to improve healthcare delivery were in the focus.
Professor Wilfried von Eiff contributes to this focus with a presentation on „Ethics versus economy in health care: How to avoid rationing by rethinking procurement management“.
European Network Architecture for Health Health Care of the Future: Building better Health Care Landscapes
10. ENAH Symposium, 1st of March 2024, Berlin
Professor Wilfried von Eiff launched a presentation to the following topic: The illusion of a „green transformation“ in hospitals: What decision-makers really think and which options for action do exist in practice.
Patterns to tackle AMR
Designing effective HAI prevention and control programs in Europe
29th January 2019, Brussels
On behalf of the European Health Management Association (EHMA) Prof. Dr. Dr. Wilfried von Eiff (Center for Hospital Management) participated in an expert meeting on "Infection prophylaxis and infection management" at the European Parliament, and gave a lecture on "Effective HAI Prevention - The Theragnostic Dilemma and the Burden of Disease".
The event was organised by European Network for Safer Healthcare (ENSH), with the aim of bringing together research initiatives from different European countries to exchange experiences, and to discuss the effectiveness of concrete action programmes.
Professor von Eiff reported on the goals and work priorities of consortium 12 (Financing of Theragnostic Costs) of the Health-i-Care Initiative and presented the causes of preventable infections in the German health care system, and a plan of measures for effective infection management for discussion.
Professor von Eiff called for a cross-sector initiative to improve infection prophylaxis, and justified this with his finding that a screening gap had risen in the outpatient sector due to misguided incentives in the financing system, and incorrect assessment approaches in calculating infection management costs. As a consequence, it can be stated that about 92% of the MRE cases treated annually in hospitals are so-called "brought-in infections". Only about a quarter of the MRSA cases treated in hospitals were covered by pre-stationary screening.
It is also noticeable that ca. 23% of nosocomial cases of infection in rehabilitation clinics is significantly higher than in hospitals (ca. 8%). This is a sign of an increasing burden of the disease due to infections in the rehabilitation sector triggered by inadequate screening, and inadequate treatment (eradication) in the upstream care sectors.
Professor von Eiff recommends the expansion of the pre-stationary screening, the holistic reimbursement of diagnosis and therapy costs for nosocomial infections ("theragnostic remuneration"), an increase in the number of single rooms, the inclusion of infection management costs in the DRG calculation and the generation of incentives to specify MRE screening in the outpatient sector.
