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In Germany, unnecessary diagnoses and operations are carried out. Superfluous medical services are associated with burdens and dangers for patients. They also waste valuable resources in the health care system that are lacking for the necessary treatment. According to recent...

This issue of SPOTLIGHT Healthcare illustrates how the damage potential of health information and thus the need for action can be assessed. It also recommends measures to better protect consumers.

In which areas of healthcare are algorithms applied - both today and in the future? How can they improve medical care? And what are new challenges that arise from their implementation? On behalf of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, the research center ceres at the University of...

The #SmartHealthSystems study shows that in international comparison, Germany lags far behind in terms of digitalizing its healthcare sector.

80 percent of the German population would like to make decisions about examinations and therapies together with their doctor. However, there are obstructive factors with respect to patient involvement in everyday hospital life. This issue of “SPOTLIGHT Healthcare” summarizes...

Public reporting can clearly help improve patient care. But what exactly does this mean in terms of the outpatient sector? What role do other patients’ experiences play in the context of reporting on the quality of a physician’s practice?

Choosing Wisely is an international campaign to reduce medical overuse and to support shared decision making. The study looks at the source of this success, as well as what distinguishes the initiative.

Showing what works: First insights from the scientific research accompanying the project "Leave No Child Behind! Municipalities in NRW take preventative action providing equal opportunities for all children."

SPOTLIGHT HEALTHCARE is an impulse paper drawn up under the program “Improving Healthcare – Informing Patients” of the Bertelsmann Stiftung.

The spotlight of Health Policy Developments 11 is on primary care. Thirty years after Alma-Ata, the WHO’s declaration on primary care has lost none of its relevance. Hopes are high, realization a real challenge: Ideally, primary care overcomes the divide between the...