Apr 23, 2021 | EN, pharmacy, telemedicine
Noventi, a pharmacy-owned group of companies that provides telemedicine, has been cooperating with Zava, a provider of online consultations, via Noventi’s CallMyApo app for about a year. According to Noventi CEO Dr. Hermann Sommer, it is the most successful...
Apr 23, 2021 | EN, Tracheostomie, wound care
Patients with laryngeal carcinoma, a malignant disease from the group of head and neck tumors, receive a tracheostoma either temporarily or permanently (definitive). The tracheostoma is a surgically created opening of the windpipe (trachea) through the soft parts of...
Apr 23, 2021 | care, EN, hospitals
Two professional associations, the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) and the German Society for Specialist Nursing and Functional Services (DFG), are calling on policymakers to take far-reaching measures to ensure...
Apr 23, 2021 | EN, hospitals, statutory health insurance
In a recent data analysis, the Scientific Institute of the AOK, WIdO for short, examined the development of hospital case numbers for AOK-insured persons and subsequently incorporated it into the Hospital Report 2021. According to the report, the decline in the number...
Apr 15, 2021 | EN, health policy, law, wound care
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn and his ministry are currently planning a nursing reform law that envisages a so-called blanket order granting nursing professionals more competence and personal responsibility. The Ärzte-Zeitung already has a corresponding paper...
Apr 15, 2021 | Digitalization, EN, general conditions, health policy
In a recently published position paper, the medtech industry association SPECTARIS appeals to healthcare policymakers to exert pressure on the GKV-Spitzenverband to push through an aid adjustment for online-based or cloud-enabled aids. The potential of creating...
