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Preliminary DAV statistics for the first third of 2020
The German Association of Pharmacists (DAV) recently presented the expenditure of the health insurance companies before and after the corona boom in March 2020, according to which March was the peak month for expenditure and prescription dispensing, also with regard...
Strengthening the German health care system through stabilisation and expansion and restructuring
The NAV-Virchow-Bund, or VirchowBund for short, is the professional association of German doctors in private practice that represents the interests of doctors in private practice and outpatient care in all specialist areas at federal and state level. This association...
App „voize“ stands for innovation in care management
Three very young people, the founders of the digital language assistant for nursing documentation "voize", are actually still students at the university. Erik Ziegler, 21 years old and the brothers Fabio and Marcel Schmidberger, both 22 years old, received money from...
Study: Diabetics have an increased risk of developing colon cancer
In Germany, many people will develop colorectal cancer during their lifetime. Most of them are older than 70 years at the time of diagnosis. One in 17 men is then affected. Among women, the rate is a bit lower, at five percent according to the evaluation. Colon cancer...
Researchers promise cancer treatment with reduction of metastasis of skin cancer cells
Research teams led by the University of Pennsylvania have now discovered in a study on a mouse model that inhibitors that could be taken as drugs in the future could reduce or prevent the metastatic spread of melanoma cells in the skin. This would increase the...
Introduction of the ePA is welcomed by the majority of Germans
The Funke media group reports through its newspapers that 72 percent of the German population believes that the introduction of the electronic patient file (ePA) will lead to better medical treatment and fewer duplicate examinations. These survey results are the...
Connector solution to connect the ePA to the TI could be delayed
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn plans to introduce the electronic patient file (ePA) in January 2021, when the ePA is to become binding for doctors and hospitals in order to be able to exchange confidential patient data such as medical findings, X-rays and much...
Teleclinic floats on a wave of success after SHI reimbursement and introduction of the e-prescription
Telemedicine providers such as Jameda or Doctolib are becoming increasingly popular in times of crisis. One provider that has been working towards this for five and a half years is the on-demand telemedicine provider Teleclinic, which can quickly make an appointment...
GKV reports declining revenues, rising expenditures and higher sickness rates
This year, the statutory health insurance funds expect falling revenues as a result of the consequences of the Corona crisis, for example, unemployment and short-time work. The statutory health insurance system (GKV) estimates the reduced revenues for 2020 at 4.8...
Mumbai holds India’s sad record in corona crisis
Hospital care for Covid 19 patients in the densely populated metropolis on the west coast of India, Mumbai, formerly Bombay, is not at its best in times of crisis, as beds and respirators are supposedly in short supply in the capital of the Indian state of...