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Rapid spread of the coronavirus is a challenge for intensive care personnel
Several experts from the field of intensive care medicine, including the President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (DIVI), Uwe Janssens, warn of corona-related supply bottlenecks in hospitals due to a lack of personnel....
Need for long-term care in Germany is increasing
In December 2017 - this is the latest status - there were 14,480 approved inpatient care facilities under the eleventh Social Security Code (SGB XI). Three years ago, there were already more than 670,000 people living there who were or are in need of care. This was...
E-prescription digitization process will probably take a long time
Gematik has already laid the foundation for a secure data network with the introduction of the health card. By the middle of next year, the next milestone must be completed, the technical infrastructure for the nationwide introduction of the electronic prescription...
Health insurance companies can save pharmacies from bankruptcy due to AvP insolvency
The German Pharmacists' Association (DAV) is worried because, since the insolvency of the Düsseldorf-based accounting company AvP, some pharmacies could be threatened by a wave of bankruptcies, especially in northeastern Germany. According to Axel Pudimat, the head of...
Apomondo and Wave cooperate to strengthen stationary pharmacies
A pharmacist from the NM Vital pharmacy in Nuremberg is the initiator of a web-based telepharmacy application called Apomondo, which has been in existence since April 2020 and enables telepharmacy consultation hours between pharmacy staff on-site and patients....
Alberta® Professional Data – IT Labs Provides Database for free
Since October 2020, Digital Health Startup IT-Labs has made its databases available to medical, nursing and pharmaceutical institutions free of charge under the name Alberta® Professional Data. Customers can access, view and use professionally maintained and validated...
New S7 study: Market knowledge „online-pharmacy“
In times of Covid-19 and progressive digitization, the healthcare market is not unaffected. The online pharmacy sector in particular is growing and developing steadily. The new Summary Seven Market Knowledge Study "Online-Pharmacies" offers a far-reaching overview of...
Online pharmaceutical sales remain strong
In the third quarter of this year, sales in online retailing continued to rise. According to the latest figures from the German E-Commerce and Mail Order Association, consumers in Germany purchased goods worth 19.3 billion Euro online - 13.3 percent more than in the...
Does manufacturer Vertex no longer grant credit to pharmacists?
After several pharmacies in Germany received a message from the Bertelsmann subsidiary Arvato that 13,000 euros will soon have to be paid in advance for a monthly dose of "Orkambi" on behalf of the biopharmaceutical company Vertex, based in Boston, USA, some...
What diet improves cardiovascular health?
Scientists at the National Jewish Health Hospital in Denver, Colorado, led by Dr. Andrew Freeman, after reviewing numerous studies on ketogenic diets and intermittent fasting, have found that the two diets not only have health benefits, but also cardiovascular risks....