Program

Tracks and topics

TRACK 1: HEALTH STUDIES IN GERMANY TODAY

"Work in progress" could be the motto of this track. Here you can submit all the health care studies that you are currently planning, conducting, would like to present or discuss.

  • Cooperation in the health care system
  • Health care organisation and interprofessional cooperation
  • Health economic evaluation
  • Health care system
  • Dementia
  • Health literacy
  • Palliative care
  • Health care-related data / registers
  • and other topics

TRACK 3: HEALTH SERVICE RESEARCH 4.0

In this track, the health services research of the future will have its say. New designs, methods of data collection, innovative analysis of known data, new data formats, etc., but also possibilities, opportunities and challenges of patient involvement will be presented and developed.

  • Field/Data Access/ Register
  • Data use/data protection/ethics
  • Research, data and knowledge management
  • Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
  • Participatory research
  • Application of theories in health services research
  • Science communication
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Living Guidelines and Living Reviews
  • International networking
  • and other topics

    TRACK 2: IMPROVE HEALTH SERVICE RESEARCH

    Under the motto "Researchers learning from researchers", contributions should be submitted here to invite (self-)critical discussion and professional exchange of experience. I.e. conceptual and scientific, methodological, but also practical aspects of health services research studies should be examined, illuminated and discussed.

    • Care services and technologies
    • Telemedicine and digitalisation
    • Regional forms of care
    • Prevention
    • Rehabilitation and curative education
    • Regional forms of care
    • Nursing care
    • Participatory research (patient-professional interaction)
    • Education and training in Health Services Research
    • Implementation and practice transfer
    • Recruitment/incentives
    • and other topics

    TRACK 4: COVID-19 AND MIXED BAG

    This track is dedicated to the topic of Covid-19 and is at the same time open to topics "in between" and "do not fit in" with the other tracks. The whole breadth of our subject is shown here, as well as the immediately and not-so-immediately adjacent fields of science. For this very reason, it is important, innovative, creative and stimulating for all who are interested in health services research.

    • COVID-19 and Long-Covid
    • Structures and networks
    • Demand planning and management
    • Patient Reported Outcomes
    • Organisational Development and Work Force
    • Public Health Service and Public Health
    • New results from the DNVF working and expert groups
    • Open topics
    Congress formats
    • Plenary lecture
    • Lecture session/symposium
    • Poster
    • State of the Art
    • Debate
    • Researchers learning from researchers (methods discourse)
    • Panel discussion
    • Science slam
    • Working and expert group meetings
    Target group

    Decision-makers, employees, representatives, students, doctoral candidates and trainees from

    • university and non-university research institutions
    • Patient and self-help organisations
    • Hospitals, practices, care services, rehabilitation facilities, etc.
    • Institutions in the field of quality assurance, evaluation, evidence and guideline development, health policy and economic efficiency in the health system
    • Organisations of self-administration in the health care system
    • Service companies in health care and management as well as companies in the pharmaceutical industry and in medical technology