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DVPMG update with important changes and improvements
The Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) has just given the go-ahead for the Digital Care and Nursing Modernization Act, or DVPMG for short, to ensure that detailed changes made by the Federal Ministry of Health do not lead to important innovations and improvements...
New nursing digital law planned for mid-2021
It was recently decided in the Bundestag that the health and care sector should become more digital. The Digital Care and Nursing Modernization Act, or DVPMG for short, is a law that is intended to contribute to the digital modernization of healthcare and nursing....
Innovative type 2 diabetic blood glucose monitoring soon to be standard TK care?
In a new model project, the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) is testing whether support from digital measuring devices for continuous blood glucose measurement on the upper arm is necessary for milder forms of type 2 diabetes and whether it has a positive effect on the...
Criticism of beginning price negotiations on DiGA compensation concepts
Professor Jürgen Wasem, policy advisor and researcher in the field of medical management at the University of Duisburg-Essen, criticizes the framework agreement on remuneration amounts reached in mid-April by the responsible arbitration board for so-called digital...
Technology company Recare receives further venture capital
Recare GmbH, based in Berlin, is a platform for digital discharge management, i.e., it plans and coordinates all planned care paths when patients are discharged from the hospital, for example. For hospitals, Recare's digital patient portal makes the entire patient...
New study on the prevention of colorectal cancer
In a new study, American scientists have investigated intestinal health and the risk of developing colorectal cancer concerning previous nutritional studies. According to this study, various nutritional factors have a significant positive and negative influence on our...
Radiology: Software from Siemens improves the digitization process
Siemens Healthineers provides Syngo Carbon, a software solution for clinical image and report generation in the radiology sector. The health tech company Smart Reporting has developed reporting software called "SmartReports" that will now be linked and integrated with...
Kry expands digital product range
Swedish online healthcare provider Kry has just raised $300 million in a new round of financing. The main investors in the impressive sum of the equivalent of 262 million euros are, among others, the US asset manager Fidelity and the Canadian pension fund CPP...
Laboratory chain Synlab goes public
Synlab, a leading European company for human and veterinary laboratory services, has just taken the fork in the road with a volume of €772 million and is planning an IPO. The Munich-based company, which offered environmental analyses in addition to these services and...
Scanacs cooperates with Zur Rose subsidiary
The startup Scanacs, a software developer from Dresden, has entered into a technological partnership with the Zur Rose subsidiary eHealth-Tech. The company was founded in 2016 by CEO Frank Böhme. Scanacs' digital communication platform makes it possible for pharmacies...