Participants from Germany

Population (mio.): 84,3 

GDP per capita (EUR): 35,290 (per 2021)

Healthcare expenditure % of GDP: 13.1%

Healthcare expenditure per capita (EUR): 5,298

Healthcare model and general information on healthcare system (financing, stakeholders, insurance): National Health Insurance model (includes the Bismarck and the Beveridge models) 

Germany has a universal multi-payer health care system of statutory health insurance (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung) and private health insurance (Private Krankenversicherung). The multi-payer system currently consists of 109 statutory insurances, covering 88 % of the population, and 41 private health insurance companies covering ,about 11 % of the population.  

Georg Münzenrieder

Head of Fundamental Matters of Digitalization & Projects and Chairman of the Board of the gematik GmbH, Bavarian State Ministry for Health and Care, Germany

Dr. Georg Muenzenrieder has been Head of Division for fundamental issues of digitalization in health and care, future and innovation projects in the Bavarian State Ministry of Health and Care since 2017. Since 2019 he has also been chairman of the federal and state working group on digitalization in the healthcare sector.

Silvia Thun

Director of Digital Medicine and Interoperability, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, Germany

Prof. Dr. Sylvia Thun has been awarded a lifetime W3 Professorship in Digital Medicine and Interoperability. For more than 20 years Prof. Dr. Sylvia Thun has been working on IT standards for barrier-free data exchange. In 2014 Sylvia Thun was named one of Germany’s “digital minds” by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Claudia Küng

CEO, Health Care Bayern

Executive board member of the non-profit association Health Care Bayern, a health network and think tank in Bavaria with over 400 members/member companies.

Lecturer in health policy and health economics at the Technical University of Munich.

Graduate economist.

Awarded the “Medal for Special Services to Bavaria in a United Europe.”