AOK Research Institute (WIdO)

Research at the AOK Research Institute (WIdO) focuses on care provision. This includes utilization of health and care services and their financing. The AOK Research Institute (WIdO) mostly works with utilization data of patients insured within the AOK. On the one hand, WIdO supports the AOK system in its tasks of cooperation and negotiation with health care providers within and across different sectors of care; on the other hand, it conducts and publishes scientific research in order to improve the quality and efficiency of health care provision in general. More