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Digitisation measures in the health care system are increasingly effective
A comparative study on the "Digitisation Index for SMEs 2019/2020", commissioned by Deutsche Telekom AG and researched and analysed by tech consult under various aspects of digitisation, describes the actual situation of health care providers and sectors with regard...
Changes in the rules and prices of the auxiliary tax for the production of cytostatic drugs
The 10th Supplementary Agreement on the adaptation of Annex 3 of the Auxiliary Tax on the pricing of parenteral preparations came into force on 1 March 2020 after the German Pharmacists' Association (DAV) and the German National Association of Statutory Health...
GVK recorded a loss of 1.5 billion euros last year
For the first time since 2015, the statutory health insurance (GVK) has closed a budget year with deficits. In total, the deficit for the year 2019 amounts to about 1.5 billion euros, whereby all types of health insurance are affected, with the exception of...
Stroke in young people with often fatal consequences
When young people suffer a stroke (apoplexy or cerebral apoplexy), their lives and those of their closest relatives become extremely upset. Although young and fit stroke patients regenerate better and faster, depending on the severity of the stroke, the physical and...
Call for transparency of the activities of financial investors in medical and dental care
According to financial experts, investments by international corporations in German nursing homes, medical care centers (MVZs) and hospitals are increasing due to persistently low-interest rates. Therefore, the Left Party demands the introduction of a publicly...
Cancer immunotherapy appears to be influenced by several factors
American scientists from the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center and the University of Chicago found in recent studies in animal experiments with mice that intestinal bacteria of certain species can positively influence the response to cancer immunotherapy...
Sitting for long periods causes health problems
People who sit too much and all the time during the day have an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, diabetes or even cancer, according to studies and health experts such as the cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, USA, Professor Erin...
AI project unique help for personalized tumor therapy of the future
Researchers at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen and scientists in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Siemens Healthineers are working together on a so-called digital biopsy to be able to detect molecular changes in tumours of people with cancer...
Older people suffer from loneliness with health problems
Scientists at the University of Michigan were able to show in a recent study over a longer period of time with 2,896 Americans over 50 years who died between 2004 and 2014 that one third of those who were characterized as lonely also had negative effects on psyche and...
Mobile stroke units versus conventional therapy: „Every minute counts
Analysis results of a current study in the period between February 2017 and May 2019 show that in Berlin the so-called Mobile Stroke Units offered a better recovery process for stroke patients with immediate treatment after the event than if patients were treated in...