Apr 5, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, general conditions, market knowledge
As part of a long-term prognosis, the international consulting firm Bain & Company has identified global growth in the health market as one of eight structural trends. According to the study, the global gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by 40 percent to 90...
Mrz 16, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, market knowledge
The statutory health insurance (GKV) is financed by social security contributions and a tax subsidy. To keep the GKV contribution rate stable at 16 percent until 2060, tax subsidies of about 3.4 billion Euro would have to be paid until 2060. Without tax money, the GKV...
Mrz 15, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, market knowledge
The American management theorist and economics professor Michael E. Porter, who has made a name for himself in previous years with, among other things, his suggestions to reform health care systems, has criticized the German health system. In an interview with the...
Mrz 15, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, market knowledge
The last few years saw substantial structural changes in the hospital market. No least because of the DRG flat-rate payment system, hospitals have developed into real businesses offering patient treatment as ‚goods‘ for sale. A consolidation process, which...
Mrz 14, 2012 | Allgemein, DE, homecare / nursing care @en, market knowledge, pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceuticals, pharmacy
After years of pressure from organizations and professional associations, the Federal Insurance Office has included chronic pain disorder in its future catalog of 80 diagnostic groups which are part of the morbidity-based risk adjustment (Morbi-RSA). The organizations...
Mrz 13, 2012 | Allgemein, DE, market knowledge, medical technology
Companies are going to have to adapt themselves to the concept of "Utilization assessment" of new developments in medical engineering. This applies not only to the products, but also to investigation and treatment methods. G-BA defines utilization here as a...