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BDI strategy paper: Improving location factors for healthcare companies
In a strategy paper in the field of industrial health management that has just been presented, the Federation of German Industries (BDI) calls for a review and the necessary improvements of the location factors in Germany in order to prevent the outsourcing of...
SHI: Balance sheet at the end of the pandemic year 2020
The German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) has announced the exact figures for the health insurance funds' expenditure on services and income for 2020, which were also subject to fluctuations due to corona.According to these figures, all health insurance funds...
Monoclonal antibody with new indication
People who are overweight or even obese have a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Weight reduction could even prevent diabetes. This is where the Phase II study by Novartis and another team of researchers comes in: a drug originally used for pathological...
Survey on the potentials and challenges of the digitalization of sales for medical supply stores
In collaboration with The Business & Governance Consultants and the Management Accounting Research Group of the Philipps University of Marburg, Summary Seven surveyed medical supply stores in Q4/2020 about the potentials and challenges of digitalization for sales...
Excerpts from an interview with an expert from Gimv
Plattform Life Sciences conducted an interview with Philipp von Hammerstein, who works at Gimv Health & Care, a European investment company, and can assess the transformation of the German healthcare system through investor support. The investor survey shows that...
RKI builds center for AI in public health research
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is building on artificial intelligence (AI) in public health research to improve public health in Germany and internationally. For this reason, a Center for AI in Public Health Research, or ZKI-PH for short, is currently being set up in...
Dermatology: Guideline-based diagnostics and therapy in telemedicine of skin diseases
A guideline in telemedical care of patients with skin diseases according to certain quality standards has just been issued and published by experts of the Professional Association of German Dermatologists (BVDD) and the German Dermatological Society (DDG). The S2k...
Google supports epidemiologists of the first hour
Google has made its mark in the Corona pandemic, as the U.S. global corporation has co-sponsored an international database of scientific questions and answers about Covid 19 disease and its spread to help make issues associated with the pandemic more understandable....
Diagnosis of atrial fibrillation with ECG patch could be improved
Teams of scientists from Toronto/Ontario in Canada and from the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), project site Göttingen, have tested a newly developed patch for the diagnosis of atrial fibrillation. The results of the study were published in the...
New S7 study: Market knowledge Tracheostomy
Against the backdrop of the regulations of the EU Medical Device Regulation that have been in force since May 2020 - postponed by one year due to the pandemic - the market for tracheostomy care is facing a transformation that can and will sustainably change the...