Roche unveiled a digital diagnostic solution for breast tumour detection

Jan 20, 2021 | cancer, diagnostics, EN

The world-renowned pharmaceutical company, Roche, not only manufactures drugs but has recently begun marketing digital diagnostics for faster and more accurate image analysis of breast cancer. The „Roche uPath Enterprise Digital Pathology Software“ uses...

mRNA vaccine effective against MS?

Jan 20, 2021 | drugs, EN

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is, as it stands today, a non-curable chronic inflammatory neurological disease affecting the nervous system. It is the second most common disease in this field after epilepsy, becoming significant mostly in people between the ages of 20 and...

Obesity: underestimated pre-disease risk factor of covid 19 disease

Jan 20, 2021 | COVID-19, EN

In the official announcement of the RKI (Bulletin), one can find listings in tabular form that reflect the greatest risk factors for a covid-19 infection with a severe or even fatal course. Accordingly, the patient’s age is the greatest risk factor for becoming...

Electronic patient record launches on a voluntary basis

Jan 14, 2021 | Digitalization, e-health, EN, physicians, statutory health insurance

The statutory health insurers are confident that insured persons will take up the offer of electronic management of their health data in the form of electronic patient files (ePA). The electronic patient file has been available since January 1 on a voluntary basis,...

How important is corporate governance for the care industry?

Jan 14, 2021 | care, EN

In a recent white paper, Dr. Lutz Michel and Prof. Dr. Marc Steffen Rapp examine the status of corporate governance in the care industry. The two market experts argue that, especially in times of COVID-19, residents and employees of care facilities are particularly in...

Higher drug spending, declining prescription volume

Jan 14, 2021 | EN, GKV, pharmaceuticals, pharmacy

The German Pharmacists Association (DAV) has published early information data, according to which the development of pharmaceutical expenditure of the statutory health insurance funds (SHI) and the number of prescriptions filled can be viewed. According to the data,...