Public reporting and pay for performance in the hospital sector

Prof. Dr. Eveline Häusler, Endowed Chair for Management and Controlling in the Healthcare Sector, Department I, and Prof. Dr. Barbara Darimont, East Asia Institute, Department II, initiated an interdisciplinary research project on the topic of "Departments of Quality Assurance in Germany and the People's Republic of China: Public Reporting and Pay for Performance in the Hospital Sector", which is supported by third-party funding from the Federal Ministry of Health. It serves to intensify cooperation with Chinese partner universities. The cooperation partner is Prof. Dr. med. Zhou Zijun from the School of Public Health at Beijing University, one of China's most renowned universities, also known as the "Chinese Harvard".

The project started on July 1, 2017 and ran until spring 2019.

The following measures were planned:

• Workshop: Innovations in medical services in the PR China
• Preparation of a paper to be submitted for the China Symposium at the 2018 Capital Congress in Berlin.
• In the 2018/2019 winter semester, a conference is planned at the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society in which students from the M.Sc. in Health Care Management (HCM) and students from the university's East Asia Institute will work together with German and Chinese project participants to develop transfer measures and recommendations for action.
• As an additional measure, a Master's thesis on the topic will be awarded, which will deal with the development of recommendations for the design and further implementation of public reporting and pay for performance from an international perspective.