About IGES
IGES is a large private R&D institute for health and healthcare based in Berlin, Germany.
Research an development for a modern healthcare system
IGES was founded in 1980 as a company for research and development in health-related matters; it also offers consultancy services. Its predecessor was the Berlin working group for structural research in health-related matters - Berliner Arbeitsgruppe Strukturforschung im Gesundheitswesen (BASiG) - an institution of the Berlin Technical University. Today it is Germany's largest private R&D institute for health and healthcare.
IGES carries out research on an extensive range of problems related to health and healthcare with the objective of developing high quality standards. Our objective is to find the right answer to the questions we are asked. The procedures, methods and instruments developed by IGES always take into account the rapidly changing economic, legal, organizational and technical factors affecting work in our field.
IGES is also a consultancy company. Anyone involved in health-related matters occasionally has questions as to how to best position oneself within the current and future framework of health and healthcare systems. IGES uses its extensive knowledge base to provide answers to these questions.
CSG Clinische Studien Gesellschaft, established in 1998 as a subsidiary of IGES, has opened up the spectrum in the area of clinical research. As a result, IGES and CSG can now deal with virtually any type of question under one roof and guarantee high methodological quality standards.
IGES is a "GmbH", a limited-liability company under German law. Its shares are held by staff members.
The IGES library is Berlin's largest library on health-related matters. It is not available to the general public. The IGES collection currently comprises some 20,000 titles and 160 journals.
- German statutory and private health insurance systems
- current legal conditions affecting health and healthcare
- out-patient and complementary services
- the day-to-day reality of care in both out-patient and in-patient situations
- legislative and registration procedures for health-related technology
- the decision-making structures of the individual market participants
- the market strategies of industrial and business suppliers
