Perspectives

Essays and positions on innovation, care and impact in health.

  • By PD Dr. med. Tobias Schäfer, M.Sc. ·

    What is impact?

    Impact is the new innovation: hardly any fund does without the word. A look at where the term comes from, where its limits lie, and what impact in health has to be measured against.

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  • By PD Dr. med. Tobias Schäfer, M.Sc. ·

    What are sector boundaries?

    Patients do not know about sectors, but the health system does. Why the boundaries between practice, hospital, rehabilitation and nursing care are so persistent, what they cost, and why data draws the least visible of them.

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  • By PD Dr. med. Tobias Schäfer, M.Sc. ·

    What is innovation?

    Innovation has become a buzzword. A look at where the term comes from, where its limits lie, and what innovation has to mean in medicine.

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