Every third stroke is related to undetected atrial fibrillation (AF) in Europe. Standard care mostly fails to detect and confirm AF. Preventicus offers a solution: The Preventicus Managed Care Program, based on its Heartbeats App, a certified medical product with 96% accuracy and 99% positive predictive value (ppv) in the detection of AF demonstrated in international clinical studies.
Against this background, R. Birkemeyer, A. Müller, S. Wahler, J.-M. Graf von der Schulenburg designed a study to research the cost-effectiveness of systematic screening for AF with the Preventicus Heartbeats App. Employing a Markov model, the researchers found that the modelling demonstrates the health benefits and economic effects of an implementation of a systematic screening on AF with “Preventicus Heartbeats”, given the perspective of the German payer, the statutory health care system. Their analysis confirms that the total reduced cost per patient amounts to more than €100 – even taking the medication costs of the newly detected AF patients into account.
“No doubt that Preventicus contributes to stroke prevention, improving healthy aging and reducing the burden on relatives of stroke patients, as well as on health and social care systems”, comments Ljubisav Matejevic, CSMO of Preventicus and CEO of Preventicus Managed Care (a division of Preventicus). “This recent study/analysis also reveals the positive cost-effectiveness within approximately three years for statutory health insurance providers in Germany. Since Germany is the most complex payer market in the European Union, we are convinced that more organizations and institutions from all over the world will seek the implementation of a systematic AF screening and confirmation service by means of our Preventicus Managed Care Program.”
Download “A cost-effectiveness analysis model of Preventicus atrial fibrillation screening from the point of view of statutory health insurance in Germany” by R. Birkemeyer, A. Müller, S. Wahler, J.-M. Graf von der Schulenburg https://healtheconomicsreview.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13561-020-00274-z.
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