[German congress for healthcare research : Solutions and innovations for German health policy in the new legislative period].

The German congress for healthcare research reached a new historic record of 859 participants from healthcare research, practice, and policy who visited the congress from 4-6 October 2017 to discuss developments, results, and innovations in healthcare research.The German healthcare system will face key challenges over the coming years. As the German population is getting older and disease incidence will become more complex, the number of healthcare professionals will simultaneously decrease.The experts provided solutions and innovations in 322 lectures and in 239 poster presentations.Hot topics included innovative and cross-sectoral healthcare concepts, patient safety, new forms of division of labor, telemedicine, eHealth as well as projects of the innovation fund and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research.Healthcare experts state that healthcare research is a key partner of patients, health policy, and self-government. The experts declare that future healthcare should be regional, cross-sectoral, and should include all healthcare professions. They formulate several demands on health policy for the new legislative period.