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Spahn’s blanket order is intended to give nursing professionals more personal responsibility
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn and his ministry are currently planning a nursing reform law that envisages a so-called blanket order granting nursing professionals more competence and personal responsibility. The Ärzte-Zeitung already has a corresponding paper...
SPECTARIS position paper on digital assistive devices in health care.
In a recently published position paper, the medtech industry association SPECTARIS appeals to healthcare policymakers to exert pressure on the GKV-Spitzenverband to push through an aid adjustment for online-based or cloud-enabled aids. The potential of creating...
Israeli wound care product enables non-contact therapy
The "Spincare Wound Care System" from Nanomedic Technologies Ltd. is a wound protection layer that is applied to injured skin using a type of gun called an electro spinning device. The gun sprays a thin liquid polymer solution onto wounds, such as moderate burns and...
EBA decision on additional compensation for „apps on prescription“
Physicians and psychotherapists who prescribe digital health apps (DiGA) will receive retroactive extrabudgetary remuneration for their services as of January 1, 2021. According to a decision of the Extended Evaluation Committee (EBA), treatments of persons over 18...
Investigation of the long-term consequences of corona infection
In their previously unpublished PHOSP-COVID study, University of Leicester study author Rachel Evans and Professor Chris Brightling looked at 1,077 people affected by SARS-CoV-2 infection and found that only 29 percent of them had fully recovered after severe...
Social democrats present „Healthcare mission for the future“
The SPD election program was presented at the end of March and is still being worked on until the decision is made in May of this year. For the SPD's "Future Program," which consists of four future missions, in addition to climate neutrality, work is also being done...
List of medical aids to be expanded by 4,000 new products
Aids and nursing aids are products whose costs are covered by the statutory health insurance funds (GKV), provided they are listed in the list of aids (HMV). For this purpose, the manufacturer of the aid must submit an application if its innovation, which must have...
PKV study reveals deficiencies in activity and preventive care
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 international...
Winner of the „Digital Health Award 2021
The Digital Health Award has been around since 2018, well before the Corona pandemic. It contributes to the improvement of healthcare in Germany with good ideas and innovations. This year's event "Digital Health Award 2021" has taken place at a virtual meeting of...
BVMed calls for extension of eRezept to other medical devices
The German Medical Technology Association (BVMed) generally welcomes the "Digital Care and Nursing Modernization Act", or DVPMG for short. However, it criticizes the fact that electronic prescriptions (e-prescriptions) have not yet been made simultaneously valid by...