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DDG warns of cardiovascular diseases associated with diabetes mellitus
The autumn conference of the DDG, the German Diabetes Society, will take place online this year due to the corona pandemic. This year's conference president Ralf Lobmann, who also holds the directorate of the Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetology and Geriatrics at the...
Hospital landscape has changed over the last 27 years
The Federal Statistical Office has analyzed the number of German hospital beds in 2018 compared to 1991 and found that their number has decreased by 25 percent. Whereas in 1991, according to the analysis, there were 666,000 beds in a total of 2,411 hospitals and...
New cooperation: Whitechart and Listenchampion
Whitechart GmbH, a provider of market information, is starting a new cooperation with Listenchampion, a German supplier of industry and investor lists. The cooperation includes the professional exchange as well as the distribution of Listenchampion products via...
E-Prescription: competition among the first providers increases
From January 2022, only e-prescriptions will be prescribed in Germany. In the meantime, there is a clear timetable according to which the associations involved are to provide contracts for the electrical prescription of remedies and aids as early as the end of the...
FresuCare as digital platform for home care
For over 35 years, Fresenius Kabi has been FresuCare, advising people on out-of-hospital care, wound and tracheostoma care, nutrition therapy and much more. The new Internet platform FresuCare.de now functions as an interface between patients, relatives and health...
More and more corona infected persons are treated with intensive care
The management report of the Robert Koch Institute from last Wednesday shows an increase in the number of intensively treated COVID-19 patients. According to the status as of September 29th, 352 patients are treated nationwide, 195 of which are ventilated. Currently,...
Parezu Arge criticizes planned amendment to pharmacy strengthening law
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn plans to amend the law to strengthen local pharmacies (VOASG) to avoid bottlenecks with parenteral drugs. In the future, it should be possible to produce and dispense different pharmacies among themselves, even between hospital and...
MVZ and their development on the EinheitsEXPO in Potsdam
The city of Potsdam celebrates the 30th anniversary of German unity in a walk-in city setting. An exhibition cube in the city shows, among other things, the development of health care in the GDR, from 30 years ago to the present and beyond. Medical supply centers...
AI and medical technology as symbiosis in the healthcare industry
The University of Bremen, more precisely the Technology Center for Computer Science and Information Technology (TZI), has joined forces with the North German innovation network "KI-Space" with the aim of coupling artificial intelligence (AI) with medical technology....
Can gematik’s schedule for the eRecipe start be met?
The starting date for ePrescriptions in Germany was set for July 1, 2021, but there are now doubts as to whether this date can be met in terms of the time frame. Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn has entrusted gematik with the development, but it is currently...