Apr 1, 2021 | EN, statutory health insurance, Studien
The study „The role of private health insurance in the healthcare system of the future“ was prepared in cooperation with Versicherungsforen Leipzig, a driving force for the insurance industry, and adesso insurance solutionsGmbH, a software company in the...
Mrz 26, 2021 | Digitalization, EN, statutory health insurance
The health insurer Barmer has just recently introduced a new authentication procedure with which insured persons can be activated for the electronic patient file (ePA), which is called eCare at Barmer. The new digital identity verification is one of two options...
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...
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 17, 2021 | EN, hospitals, statutory health insurance
The Barmer Hospital Report 2020 has highlighted and analyzed patient safety and the quality of operations in hospitals and clinics in the state of Hesse. According to the health insurer, several deaths per year could be avoided if scheduled surgeries were performed by...
Feb 15, 2021 | EN, general conditions, statutory health insurance
The German healthcare system may be treating many people who do not have adequate health insurance coverage, according to the federal government’s response to a small question from the FDP in the Bundestag.2019 was the last time the statistical figures were...