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Will pharmacy exclusivity be eroded in the long term?
The shoe and fashion portal Zalando is currently expanding its portfolio more and more, because since recently the global corporation has been cooperating with the mail-order pharmacy "Medikamente per Klick" and is thus competing for new customers who buy...
Digitization of cancer therapy increases treatment success
The app Mika is a digital product of the telemedical company Fosanis and is intended as a support for people suffering from cancer. As a digital companion, it improves the success of therapy and adherence to therapy while taking a holistic approach.For this purpose,...
Store pharmacy is a winner as a mail-order company in the Corona crisis
The big competitor to DocMorris, Shop-Apotheke, is on the upswing, primarily due to the Corona crisis, but also due to the new e-prescription orientation of the mail-order company from the Netherlands.By almost a whopping 40 percent (38.1 percent), sales grew in 2020...
DIVI registry: patients in Covid 19 intensive care beds increasingly younger
An evaluation of the data from the registry of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) concludes that Covid 19 patients in intensive care units are becoming younger and younger because many older, vulnerable...
Digital version of Barmer-eCare now available
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...
Insufficient vaccination protection due to early administration of painkillers?
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recommend that painkillers and antipyretics not be taken immediately before or after the COVID-19 vaccination.The...
BVMed: Support and orientation for medtech SMEs
The German Medical Technology Association, BVMed for short, warns against the implementation of the EU Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR) and the financial impact of the Corona pandemic on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).The double burden for the medical...
AOK: Electronic patient file as a forward-looking project
Insureds of statutory health insurers (SHI) are accepting the electronic patient record (ePA) introduced on January 1, 2021, with restrained interest, according to an inquiry with the AOK Federal Association.Even two months after its launch, relatively few insureds at...
What developments and innovations are there in medical technology?
Almost exactly one year ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic because the SARS Cov-2 virus was causing many fatal illnesses around the world at breakneck speed. Since then, much has happened in the medical technology industry to tinker with...
Many countries complain about a shortage of (skilled) nursing staff
There is a nursing shortage in healthcare worldwide. At the beginning of 2020, there was a shortage of six million nurses around the world. By 2030, another four million workers will retire due to age. According to a report by the World Confederation of Nurses (ICN),...