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Medical Technology Sector: Outlook Positive until 2025
German industry association Spectaris has just published the industry figures for the medical technology sector for January to August 2021, welcoming the growth trajectory for 2021. However, Sepctaris also warns that rising costs for raw materials and logistics,...
Twelve-Member Working Group Formed for Coalition Negotiations on Health Policy Issues
Coalition negotiations are already underway in the German Bundestag, because the issue of "health and care" is also urgent. Initial exploratory talks of the traffic light coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP have already ended with discussions on cornerstones in a result...
Shop Apotheke Recently Started Supplying Digital Prescriptions
Shop Apotheke, headquartered in Venlo, the Netherlands, received its first electronic prescription on October 28. In addition, further e-prescriptions have been received since then, which could be processed further without any problems, as the online retailer reports....
Startup Thryve Provides Health Data for Healthcare Research
The Berlin-based company Thryve, a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute was founded in 2017 as a technology startup and has since been intensively involved in the collection of health data from patients who wear wearables, fitness trackers or other connected medical...
Algea Care: With medical cannabis to success?
Cannabis startup Algea and its parent company, Bloomwell Group, which was only founded a year ago, want to conquer the cannabis market in Europe. Medical cannabis has also been prescribable in Germany since 2017. However, the recreational market with cannabis products...
Increase in the federal subsidy to the Health Fund approved by the state?
A draft decree from the German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) stipulates that the statutory health insurance (SHI) will receive an increase in the federal subsidy to the health fund of 14 billion euros instead of the seven billion euros that had been budgeted, in...
Holetschek Calls for Further Care Reforms
In the state of Bavaria, there is now a so-called Minister of Health and Care, whose main focus is on the people who need care and their relatives. Klaus Holetschek, Minister for Health and Care, is therefore calling on the future federal government to implement plans...
DSG Demands New Financing Concepts in Tele-Neurology
The German Stroke Society (DSG) is campaigning for teleneurological healthcare in Germany and is calling for new funding concepts in the field of tele-neurology, because this area is not uniformly financially regulated and the network situation in this country is...
Innovations for Pharmacies Starting 2022
Pharmacies and other service providers can be contract partners of health insurance funds in the field of medical aids and must fulfill certain requirements, so-called suitability criteria. The basis for this is the Fifth Social Code with Section 126, which also...
Study: More Frequent Changes Observed among Hospital Managing Directors
The hospital study "Schleudersitz Krankenhausgeschäftsführer" by BDO Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft and the German Hospital Institute (DKI) with the support of the Association of Hospital Directors in Germany (VDK) investigates the assumption that hospitals change...