The inav

Malte Haring is Managing Director of inav GmbH. Previously, he held various positions in the company, including Operations Lead and Deputy Managing Director. Before joining inav, he gained consulting experience at a large strategy consulting firm. Malte Haring studied Health Communication at the University of Bielefeld and Medical Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Malte Haring’s professional expertise lies in the area of digital transformation as well as in the conception and process design of innovations in healthcare. He also deals with the topic of organizational tensions in the interaction of different stakeholder interests as well as the associated risks and opportunities in healthcare projects.

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Professorship for International Health Systems Research, Hannover Medical School ▪ Main Focus: Managed Care, Evaluation, Health Services Research, Health Economics, Innovative Healthcare Concepts

Prof. Dr. Volker Amelung has held a professorship for International Health Systems Research at the Hannover Medical School since 2001. He studied business administration at the University of St. Gallen and at the University of Paris-Dauphine and earned his doctorate at the University of St. Gallen. From 2007 to 2022, he was chairman of the board of the Bundesverband Managed Care e.V. (BMC). Professor Amelung holds many years of experience as a consultant for international and national healthcare companies as well as for the World Health Organization (WHO) and founded the inav in 2011. Through his activities, Professor Amelung can draw on a broad network of experts and is well established in academia, practice and politics.

His work and research focus on the areas of managed care and integrated care, consulting stakeholder in the health care system, the evaluation of care concepts, and the project development of innovative care concepts.

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Dr. Matthias Arnold is a member of the management board. Before joining inav GmbH, his scientific career took him as a fellow to the Centre for Health Economic der University of York, UK, and to the College of Medicine in Malawi. He received his doctorate in health economics from the LMU Munich. He also holds degrees as Master of Business Research (LMU Munich), MSc. Global Health and Development (UCL) and as Diplom-Volkswirt (University of Heidelberg).

Dr. Matthias Arnold is an expert in evaluation, methods and consulting. He focuses on health economic evaluations, data analyses, modeling and studies for care concepts with digital components.

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Dr. Franziska Püschner is a member of the management board of inav GmbH. She received her doctorate in health economics from the University of Cologne. Subsequently, she worked for Janssen-Cilag GmbH in the area of market access and for Roche Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Shanghai, in the area of strategy development and business process optimization.

Dr. Franziska Püschner is an expert in evaluation, methods and consulting. She also specializes in the areas of healthcare research, development of innovative healthcare concepts, especially for innovation fund projects, and project management.

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Ralph Lägel is shareholder and senior advisor at inav GmbH. He studied medicine and psychology at the University of Leipzig and completed his Executive Master of Business Administration in Healthcare Management at the Universities of Salzburg, Marburg and Trier. His activities brought him into management and strategic positions at university hospitals, therapy centers, physician networks and pharmaceutical companies. Particular areas of focus have been innovative, digitally supported care models and, increasingly in recent years, work with start-ups and the development of an incubator for a major international company. Ralph Lägel was also a board member of the Bundesverband Managed Care e.V. (BMC) from 2010 to 2022 and continues to lead various working groups within the association.

Mr. Lägel’s main areas of focus at inav are the development of innovative care concepts, care management, and strategic consulting on the aspects of digitalization in healthcare and the market launch of digital health applications (DiGAs).

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Education

• M. A. Cultural Studies and German Literature, University of Bremen

Current responsibilities

• Quality management
• Preparation of project proposals
• Project management
• Marketing

Main focus

• Marketing
• Publications
• Applications for the Innovation Fund
• DiGA fast-track procedure

Education

• M.Sc., Health Economics, University of Bayreuth

Current responsibilities

• Development of guidelines for the care of mentally ill patients
• Development and evaluation of innovative care concepts
• Health economic analyses

Main focus

• (Health Economic) Evaluation of Complex Interventions
• Statistical Analyses in the field of Health Services Research
• Scientific Monitoring of Innovative Health Care Concepts and Digital Health Applications (DiGA)

Education

• M. Sc. Public Health, Berlin School of Public Health, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• B. A. Economics, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin

Current responsibilities

• Development and evaluation of innovative care concepts

Main focus

• Quantitative and Qualitative Health Services Research
• Care of People with Severe Asthma

Ausbildung

• B.A. Public Health/Gesundheitswissenschaften, Universität Bremen
• M.Sc. Public Health, Berlin School of Public Health, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Aktuelle Aufgaben

• Entwicklung und Evaluation innovativer Versorgungskonzepte
• Netzwerkmanagement

Education

• M. Sc. Public Health, Hannover Medical School
• B. A. Languages (German/French), State University of Languages and Culture, Tbilisi

Current responsibilities

• Quality management
• Data analysis
• Project controlling

Main focus

• Project controlling
• Evaluation of innovative care models

Education

• Sociologist (Diploma), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

Current Responsibilities

• Development of study designs
• Evaluation of complex interventions of regional and nationwide prevention projects across health insurance funds

Main focus

• Qualitative and quantitative research
• Integrative research designs (mixed methods)
• Child and adolescent health in rural areas

Education

• M. Sc. Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• B. Sc. Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Current responsibilities

• Development and evaluation of innovative care concepts
• Scientific consulting for the development of digital health applications (DiGA)

Main focus

• Quantitative health services research
• Statistical programming
• Telemedicine lifestyle interventions for Type II Diabetes mellitus
• Adherence and usage behavior in digital health applications
• (Digital) communication and information transfer in the health sector

Education

• M. A. Medical Anthropology, Free University Berlin & University of Copenhagen
• B. A. Ethnology and Political Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Current responsibilities

• Development and evaluation of innovative care concepts
• Development of data privacy compliant survey methods
• Development of quality indicators for community care networks

Main focus

• Qualitative Health Services Research
• Integrative Research Designs (Mixed Methods)
• Patient- and Participant-Oriented Questioning
• Integrated Community Care
• Care and Case Management

Education

• B. Sc. Applied Health Sciences, Hochschule Furtwangen
• M. Sc. Public Health, Berlin School of Public Health, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Current responsibilities

• Development and evaluation of innovative care concepts

Main focus

• Quantitative and qualitative health services research
• Scientific evaluation of innovation fund projects

Education

• M. Sc. Psychologie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin und Université Paris Nanterre (Frankreich)
• B. Sc. Psychologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg und University of Cambridge University (UK)

Current responsibilities

• Consulting for digital health and strategy projects
• Development and evaluation of innovative care concepts

Main focus

• Digital health
• App development and DiGA fast-track procedure
• Care for people with mental and neurological illnesses

Education

• M. Sc. Public Health, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• B. Sc. Public Health and Administration, Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences

Current responsibilities

• Evaluation of complex interventions of regional and nationwide prevention projects across health insurance funds

Main focus

• Development and evaluation of innovative care concepts
• Qualitative and quantitative research
• Integrative research designs (mixed methods)

Education

• M. A. Public Health – Health Care Delivery, Economics and Management, University of Bremen

Current responsibilities

• Development and evaluation of innovative care models
• Project management

Main focus

• Innovative models for health care services
• Market access for pharmaceutical manufacturers
• Market access for digital health applications (DiGA)

Education

• B. Sc. Economics, University of Halle, Halle an der Saale
• M. Sc. Health Economicx, University of Halle, Halle an der Saale

Current responsibilities

• Development and evaluation of innovative care concepts

Main focus

• Quantitative methods of health services research
• Statistical analyses

Education

• M. Sc. Industrial Economics, Berlin University of Technology
• B. Sc. Economics, Berlin University of Technology

Current responsibilities

• Development and evaluation of innovative care concepts

Main focus

• Quantitative and qualitative health services research
• Statistical programming
• Integrative research designs (mixed methods)

Education

• M. Sc. Global Health, Maastricht University
• M. Sc. Social Economics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
• B. A. Sociology and Political Science, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel

Current responsibilities

• Development and evaluation of innovative care concepts

Main focus

• Digital health applications (DiGA)
• Electronic patient file / electronic prescription in international comparison
• Statistical and qualitative analyses in health services research