Publications
Publications on health economics and health management (SGG)
Edited by Prof. Dr. Manfred Erbsland and Prof. Dr. Eveline Häusler.
Homepage of the publisher:
Hanika, H., ed. (2020): Künstliche Intelligenz, Robotik und autonome Systeme in der Gesundheitsversorgung, SGG, Vol. 4, Verlag Wissenschaft & Praxis, Sternenfels.
Artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomous systems decouple causality and decision-making contexts from human actions and present society and healthcare with new challenges.
Basic concepts such as artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomous systems are subject to constant and accelerated change. Artificial intelligence is particularly concerned with human perceptual and intellectual abilities, such as thinking, decision-making and problem-solving behaviour, in order to operationalize or replicate these using computer-aided processes.
Artificial intelligence plays a key role in robotics. After all, not only humanoid robots must have a certain degree of intelligence, but also machines, .... (more ...)
Häusler, E., ed. (2018): Digitalization and Big Data. Aspekte digitaler Transformation im Gesundheitswesen, SGG, Vol. 3, Verlag Wissenschaft & Praxis, Sternenfels.
Digitalization is regarded as a key technology for the economy and society, which is also profoundly changing the healthcare sector. At the center of the current discussion are the upheavals that are emerging in the areas of diagnostics and therapy. In contrast, this volume places particular emphasis on the challenges and strategic decisions facing statutory health insurance companies. In doing so, space is given to two quite contrary points of view: On the one hand, there is the assumption that digitalization will strengthen the role as a "player" through more intensive involvement in the development of care innovations and the design of care processes. The other side, on the other hand, expects a retreat from this very role of shaping care and sees the health insurance company of tomorrow on the way to becoming a comprehensively digitalized service provider in the sense of a traditional insurance company. In both cases, the job profiles and therefore the demands on employees will change considerably.
Other articles lay the necessary conceptual foundations and systematize the variety of data sources and fields of application in the healthcare sector or take a critical look at the political debate .... (more ...)
Häusler, E., ed. (2015): Profession Pflege. Developments and challenges, SGG, vol. 2, Verlag Wissenschaft & Praxis, Sternenfels.
"Anyone talking about nursing care is talking about a galaxy in the healthcare cosmos!" said Frank Weidner at the 2014 Health Economics Talks at Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences.
The contributions collected in this volume each focus on one of the stars in this galaxy. The choice fell on stars that are currently shining particularly brightly - i.e. topics that are currently the focus of particular attention in science, politics and the public - that have been little researched or whose closer examination can help to gain insight into the self-image of the nursing professions.
This volume brings together contributions based on presentations given at the eleventh Health Economics Talks 2014 at Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences on the Rhine. Topics include the status quo and challenges of culturally sensitive geriatric care, the further development of social long-term care insurance, the establishment of a state chamber of nursing care in Rhineland-Palatinate, .... (more ...)
Häusler, E., ed. (2011): Prioritisierung bei Gesundheitsleistungen, SGG, vol. 1, Verlag Wissenschaft & Praxis, Sternenfels.
"Questions of distribution relevant to justice under conditions of scarcity", as formulated by the German Ethics Council, are a highly complex topic and are - precisely for this reason? - largely avoided by health policy.
This volume fills this gap and aims to stimulate an open discussion about which benefit entitlements should be financed within the social insurance system. Based on the fundamental conviction that prioritization and ultimately rationing of healthcare services cannot be avoided under conditions of economic scarcity, the authors discuss relevant medical, ethical, economic and legal aspects. The demand for fair and democratically legitimized prioritization places high demands both on the selection of prioritization criteria and on institutional implementation. It is clear that the health economic measurement of costs and benefits is not sufficient to create rankings of medical interventions. In terms of institutional implementation, too, there is a warning against seemingly simple solutions and an insistence on precise coordination with the regulatory framework in place in Germany in order to avoid awakening the EU institutions' "desire for competence". From a legal perspective, the increasing tension between liability law and social security law is of particular importance, in addition to possible constitutional limits to the exclusion of benefits for individual population groups.
This volume is aimed at all those who want to gain a well-founded, wide-ranging insight, .... (more ...)
