Mrz 8, 2021 | Digitalization, EN, physicians, Psychotherapie
SHI-accredited physicians and psychotherapists must bill the statutory health insurance funds according to a standardized evaluation scale (EBM). The Extended Evaluation Committee (EBA) has just finalized how the activities of physicians in relation to the electronic...
Mrz 8, 2021 | EN, general conditions, statutory health insurance
Hospital associations are counting on more financial support in times of the Corona pandemic. However, Martin Litsch, chairman of the board of AOK-Bundesverband, urges for more sense of proportion in the financial needs of German clinics and hospitals, because...
Mrz 8, 2021 | clinic, COVID-19, EN, general conditions
Cardiologists from the Clinical Department of Heart Diseases at Vienna General Hospital (AKH) and the Medical University (MedUni Vienna) point out that a drop in the number of patients with acute heart attacks can cause health risks of drastic proportions.In Austria,...
Feb 25, 2021 | EN, general conditions
The health portal NetDoktor.de GmbH has taken legal action against a cooperation between the German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) and Google and has been provisionally granted a preliminary injunction. The judgment pronounced by the 37th Civil Chamber of the Munich...
Feb 25, 2021 | Digitalization, EN, statutory health insurance
The largest IT project for digitizing the healthcare system, the electronic patient record (ePA), is intended to improve the networking situation of all players in the German healthcare system. However, the insured person decides who is to be provided with the data....
Feb 25, 2021 | EN, health policy
In a regular blog (kma Decisive Blog), Philipp Köbe, a lecturer and management consultant in the German healthcare system, questions whether there is anything wrong with private providers in the German healthcare system. He tries to refute the thesis that...