Trust Through Transparency

Transparency is an essential cornerstone of trust in the healthcare industry

Under the EFPIA Disclosure Code, all EFPIA members and participants in EFPIA member associations voluntarily undertake to disclose all payments and transfers of value they make to healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations. The objective of the Code is to protect the integrity of partnerships between individual healthcare professionals, while bringing transparency and clarity to making these partnerships. This strengthens the relationships of trust between the individual partners and with the public.

Transparency in Austria

The EFPIA Disclosure Code introduced minimum standards which national member associations must comply with and implement in the form of national codes. Local Associations in the countries are responsible for this task, and have implemented transparency regulations in their Codes of Conduct. The Codes, which is voluntary for all members, requires participants to publish the transfers of value they make to healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations from the year 2016 onward. With the recipients’ advance consent, publication includes the full name, full business or medical practice address, and physician’s permanent ID number (if applicable) of the healthcare professional to ensure their clear identification.

The Codes of Conduct are likewise aimed at enhancing the transparency and clarity of partnerships between individual healthcare players.

Our Commitment

At Boehringer Ingelheim we are convinced that this open documentation of our payments will bring clarity to our partnerships with healthcare players. In future, the partners with which we collaborate and the context of those collaborations can be openly traced. By undertaking this course, we are responding to socio-political demand for enhanced transparency and demonstrating the ethically sound framework of our partnerships.

Disclosure Documents

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2017:

References

http://transparency.efpia.eu/uploads/Modules/Documents/efpia_about_disclosure_code.pdf , zuletzt abgerufen am 19.04.2016

http://www.transparenz-schafft-vertrauen.at

 

References

http://transparency.efpia.eu/uploads/Modules/Documents/efpia_about_disclosure_code.pdf, last accessed on April 19, 2016