Abstract
The healthcare industry is a growth driver. However, the health system is facing a crisis, affected by the financial development in Europe. An almost completely regulated market is just as little use, as a largely deregulated market such as in the U.S.A. Both lead to gaps in the sustainable and comprehensive patient care. Based on the German Healthcare System, an analysis is performed. Currently, the German health care system is in a transformation process. Traditional forms of health care services provision and the existing governance system are coming to their limits. The current health care system no longer meets the requirements for ensuring accessible and affordable health care services. As new players on the German hospital market, commercial hospital groups have emerged. To get more informed on the effects at the regional level, a scenario analysis was performed. A trend scenario which shows a clear trend toward a substantial increase of regional imbalances was developed. On one hand, there are highly profitable regions with excellent medical service provision by commercial hospital groups, and on the other hand, there are peripheral regions with a second-rate medicine, which are left to the public sector. The paper derives first ideas about a new structure of the healthcare system for ensuring accessible and affordable health care services for the citizens. The paper shows first ideas about the transformation of healthcare as an opportunity for growth.
Highlights
The healthcare industry is a growth driver in Germany
The quality of health care services will become second-rate, as such local emergency structures are neither attractive for specialists, nor can they ensure the opportunities of innovative medicine: integrated, individualised, affordable health care, in the long term
The methodology of scenario analysis has been used in this way for the first time to undertake a current trend projection on the health care sector in Germany
Summary
The healthcare industry is a growth driver in Germany. the health system is facing a crisis, affected by the financial development in Europe.An almost completely regulated market such as the healthcare in the UK is just of as little use, as a largely deregulated market such as the one in the U.S.A. The healthcare industry is a growth driver in Germany. The health system is facing a crisis, affected by the financial development in Europe. An almost completely regulated market such as the healthcare in the UK is just of as little use, as a largely deregulated market such as the one in the U.S.A. An almost completely regulated market such as the healthcare in the UK is just of as little use, as a largely deregulated market such as the one in the U.S.A They both lead to gaps in the sustainable and comprehensive patient care. What kind of impact does the current structure of health care have? What factors influence the success of health care? How does the current system do? What kind of impact does the current structure of health care have? What factors influence the success of health care? What trends can be expected? What conclusions can be drawn from this?
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