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Increase in long-term care insurance contributions due to planned care reform?
The deputy chairman of the GKV-Spitzenverband, Gernot Kiefer, criticizes the federal government's planned care reform and warns of an opaque "patchwork quilt." He is concerned about the mandatory application of regulations on collective agreements and the remuneration...
More value-based healthcare with the help of digital processes
Klinik Management has just interviewed Gerrit Schick as Head of Health Informatics at Philips GmbH Market DACH to find out how the new Hospital Futures Act (KHZG) will have a lasting and holistic impact on digitization in the hospital landscape by 2025. Gerrit Schick...
Gastroenterologists‘ professional association sees the need for action
In the early detection of colorectal cancer, not everything always goes smoothly. There are undesirable developments and weaknesses alongside good and well-developed achievements in Germany's colorectal cancer screening program. The professional association of...
Cancer patients to appreciate telemedicine care
The working group (WG) of the Society for Integrative Oncology, or SIO, a multidisciplinary professional society concerned with applying integrative medicine to cancer patients, has developed recommendations for telemedicine consultations for physicians and other...
GKV-Spitzenverband: Criticism of digitization policy
In its position paper, the GKV-Spitzenverband publicly criticizes the implementation of digitization measures by the Federal Ministry of Health led by Jens Spahn and takes stock. According to the association, there is an obvious lack of participation by other...
Excerpts from the TK Opinion Pulse 2021
A survey conducted by the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) in January 2021, carried out by the Forsa opinion research institute with 2001 people aged 18 and over, shows that many Germans are completely or very satisfied with the healthcare system. The representative...
Emergency outpatient care through medical on-call service increases
According to an analysis by the Central Institute of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, associations of statutory health insurance physicians are increasingly using central patient distribution instruments to avoid emergency patients visiting hospital emergency...
Dementia risk and poor sleep correlate
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital led by study author Rebecca Robbins found that sleep deprivation and dementia are closely linked in a representative, prospective study of people over 65 who had an average age of 76. For the...
Digital health startups more popular than ever with VC investors
The PR agency Advance Healthcare looks after digital health startups, finding out every day how innovations from telemedicine and e-health can be integrated into the care of the German population. One of the company's specialties is the dissemination of press releases...
Kry: Patients benefit from digital achievements
The telemedicine provider Kry, which originated in Sweden, cooperates with the mail-order pharmacy Apologistics for the delivery of e-prescriptions following telemedicine consultations with doctors. The mail-order pharmacy delivers the ordered medicines and delivers...