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GVWG: Decision-making powers for nursing staff extended
The Act on the Further Development of Health Care (GVWG), which was passed by the Bundestag on 11 June, contains extensions and changes with regard to financial relief for those in need of care, but also important details for care workers. These include, among other...
CURE Finance: Is smart banking becoming a competitor?
Many health professionals, such as doctors and pharmacists, have to carry out activities such as financial and accounting processes and their work with patients. Martin Buhl, who has many years of experience in banking, including at PayPal, founded the start-up Cure...
eurocom discusses aid supply in Europe
At this year's members' meeting of eurocom, the manufacturers' association for compression therapy, orthopedic aids, and digital health applications, there was much discussion, especially about advancing and expanding the supply of aids in Europe. Further development...
AEP marketing campaigns: Advertising for participating stationary pharmacies
The pharmaceutical wholesaler and modern pharmacy manager, AEP, is offering pharmacies an exceptional service from 1 September this year to address walk-in customers in the vicinity of the pharmacies and thus win their favor. A social media marketing package called...
Research cooperation insists on the further development of pediatric oncology therapies
Dutch and German scientists have recently started working in cooperation to help 35,000 children with cancer in the European community every year. The transnational research cooperation in pediatric oncology has set itself the goal of minimizing the death rate as well...
SHI financial situation: health system must be redesigned
A DAK health study certifies that the reorganization of the financing of the health care system will be a priority after the Bundestag elections. Politicians from the SPD and the Greens and the CDU and the FDP each see it the same way. However, the plans are currently...
Do diabetes patients benefit from the green light of modern sports watches?
Professor Dr. Martin Fussenegger is an expert in "Biosystems Science and Engineering" at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich and a developer of new medicines. He recently made a breakthrough in the field of insulin production using wearables. In the...
PRiVENT study: Good chances for ventilation weaning in high-risk patients
In Baden-Württemberg, a two-year intervention program started on 1 July 2021 to identify at-risk patients who could be candidates for ventilator weaning after long-term ventilation due to intubation. Franziska Trudzinski, an expert in pneumology and intensive care...
Gloomy forecast for SHI due to excessive expenditure
DAK Gesundheit has commissioned the IGES Institute to prepare an expert report analyzing health insurance expenditure. According to the report, DAK boss Andreas Storm's summary generally looks negative for the statutory health insurance (SHI) because the Berlin...
Health insurers feel left out when it comes to digital prescriptions
The AOK-Bundesverband, with chairman Martin Litsch at the helm, would like to see a change in gematik's digital e-prescription system instead of the closed, isolated concept, as the e-prescription is an important digital building block for all players in the...