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a n n ual report 20 07 he a lt h eco n omy a nd life s c ience in m ec klenburg -vo rpommern
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Activities and Projects
National Conference for the Health Economy
The “National Conference for the Health Economy” in Rostock has established itself – and
subsequently strengthened its position – as the leading event for the health economy in Germany.
Among the highlights of the years was the 3rd sector conference ”The Economic Factor of
Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Chances, Limits, Standards”, which was held from 2 to
2 May in Rostock, Hohe Düne. For this occasion, the conference had the good fortune to engage
Prof. Dr. Damdinsuren Natsagdorj as its plenary speaker. Since 1991 Prof. Natsagdorj has been the
director of the Otoch Manramba Institute and medical director of the Mamba Datsan Clinic and the
Educational Centre for Traditional Mongolian Medicine in Ulaanbaatar. He is known as the Khamba
Lama (“great teacher”) and as such is the highest medical authority in Mongolia. This year too, it
was possible to gain the benefit of high-quality lecturers from the various fields of complementary
medicine in Germany. Prof. Dr. med. Karin Kraft from the Seat of Natural Medicine at the University
of Rostock was responsible for the design of the programme. The conference also featured Iceland
as its guest nation partner.
The twelve debatable theses for alternative medicine, compiled by BioCon Valley ® in advance of
the conference, became a major attention grabber which in turn led to a focused discussion of
these subjects at the conference, gaining nationwide recognition.
Further information at: http://www.konferenz-gesundheitswirtschaft.de/
Clustermanagement Health Economy
In the scope of the project “Clustermanagement Health Economy Mecklenburg-Vorpommern”,
BioCon Valley Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V. coordinated the two pilot programmes “Competence
Network Orthopaedics ®”, Rostock, and “Transfer Network Community Medicine”, Greifswald. Both
programmes display subprojects along the lines of the master plan “Health Economy Mecklenburg-
Vorpommern 2010” and are increasingly turning out to be ideal model projects.
Competence Network Orthopaedics ®
The project partners from the fields of clinic, research, medical technology, orthopaedic technology,
rehabilitation and the hotel business came together in order to make the most of each one’s
competence whilst at the same time creating a synergy. The partner plan to improve the workflow
of the treatment of the patients and to network the individual institutions. On top of that it is
the goal to develop services of different kinds in high quality which shall be booked (individually
or as an “all inclusive” package) from the patient in near future. The innovation potential within
the total value creation chain in the field of orthopaedics should create new possibilities and be
tapped into by all network partners. In the project year of 2007, the focus of the activities was
oriented on the further expansion and stabilising of the network. The spectrum could be expanded