Jul 28, 2020 | Digitalization, e-health, EN, health policy
Digitalisation in the health care system is progressing, as the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) will soon be able to cooperate with 40,000 doctors and many pharmacies throughout Germany with regard to its e-prescription project, as four other health insurance companies...
Jul 17, 2020 | company news @en, Digitalization, EN, statutory health insurance, survey, telemedicine
According to the press release of SBK Siemens-Betriebskrankenkasse, one of the 20 largest statutory health insurance funds in Germany and the number one company health insurance fund, the fund is committed to educating its policyholders about digital and telemedical...
Jul 6, 2020 | cooperation, Digitalization, EN, Software
The medatixx GmbH & Co. KG and eHealth-Tec GmbH have entered into a strategic partnership for the nationwide introduction of electronic prescriptions. medatixx is a provider of practice software and counts 21,000 medical practices, outpatient clinics and medical...
Jun 26, 2020 | Digitalization, EN
In an interview with the FAZ, Michael Dohrmann (Partner Industry Lead Life Sciences & Health Care) and Ibo Teuber (Director Life Sciences & Health Care at Deloitte) spoke about the potentials and challenges of the advancing digitization in the health sector....
Jun 3, 2020 | Digitalization, EN
The Funke media group reports through its newspapers that 72 percent of the German population believes that the introduction of the electronic patient file (ePA) will lead to better medical treatment and fewer duplicate examinations. These survey results are the...
Jun 3, 2020 | Digitalization, EN, Telematik
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn plans to introduce the electronic patient file (ePA) in January 2021, when the ePA is to become binding for doctors and hospitals in order to be able to exchange confidential patient data such as medical findings, X-rays and much...