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Market researchers see changing trend in pharma sales and marketing strategies
INSIGHT Health, a market research institute in the healthcare market-based in Hesse, Germany, has a great deal of experience across the healthcare sector and offers data-based solutions for managing and measuring the success of pharmaceutical marketing and sales...
Is the Covid 19 rollout giving a boost to digitization in healthcare?
On Wednesday, February 24, interested parties from academia and practice were able to participate in the 16th Livestream State Conference "Digitalization in Healthcare 2021", where experts in Potsdam shed light on the digital push in the industry triggered by the...
EBA decides on remuneration for ePA activities
SHI-accredited physicians and psychotherapists must bill the statutory health insurance funds according to a standardized evaluation scale (EBM). The Extended Evaluation Committee (EBA) has just finalized how the activities of physicians in relation to the electronic...
AOK-Bundesverband: Economic situation in the hospital sector eased
Hospital associations are counting on more financial support in times of the Corona pandemic. However, Martin Litsch, chairman of the board of AOK-Bundesverband, urges for more sense of proportion in the financial needs of German clinics and hospitals, because...
Carryover of acute myocardial infarction during the Corona pandemic
Cardiologists from the Clinical Department of Heart Diseases at Vienna General Hospital (AKH) and the Medical University (MedUni Vienna) point out that a drop in the number of patients with acute heart attacks can cause health risks of drastic proportions.In Austria,...
NetDoktor takes action against highlighted health portal
The health portal NetDoktor.de GmbH has taken legal action against a cooperation between the German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) and Google and has been provisionally granted a preliminary injunction. The judgment pronounced by the 37th Civil Chamber of the Munich...
Constitutional complaint against regulations in the electronic patient file dismissed
The largest IT project for digitizing the healthcare system, the electronic patient record (ePA), is intended to improve the networking situation of all players in the German healthcare system. However, the insured person decides who is to be provided with the data....
Is the German healthcare system more effective when parts are privatized?
In a regular blog (kma Decisive Blog), Philipp Köbe, a lecturer and management consultant in the German healthcare system, questions whether there is anything wrong with private providers in the German healthcare system. He tries to refute the thesis that...
Many more video consultations in psychotherapy
An analysis of results from Techniker Krankenkasse's (TK) billing data found that psychotherapy video consultations have multiplied eightfold since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic.In the first quarter of 2020, 29,000 therapy consultations were billed to TK, while...
Chronic wounds may also be treated professionally outside the home
According to a press release from the Chronic Wound Initiative (ICW), wound care for hard-to-heal and chronic wounds is also possible in non-home settings by specialized facilities and nursing services.The guideline for this was updated on September 17, 2020, by the...