The Health Care Systems in Transition profile on Germany 2004 was written by Reinhard Busse and Annette Riesberg (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Technische Universität Berlin). It is based on the HiT profile 2000 which was written by Reinhard Busse (then European Observatory on Health Care Systems, Madrid) in collaboration with Annette Riesberg (Federal Ministry of Health) and edited by Anna Dixon (European Observatory on Health Care Systems, London School of Economics).