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Private Health Insurance Cooperation Facilitates Interdisciplinary Healthcare Provision
Four private health insurers will soon be working together to speed up processes, further improve services, keep costs stable or reduce them, and exchange information in order to further develop the quality of care in the outpatient, inpatient and rehabilitation...
New Treatment Approach for Cardiovascular Diseases
A team of scientists led by Professor Dr. Philip Wenzel and Prof. Dr. Thomas Münzel from the Center for Cardiology at the University Medical Center Mainz recently used data from the Gutenberg Health Study (GHS) to show that people may respond to improved drug therapy...
New S7 Trend Report: Developments in the German Healthcare Market
The pandemic has put the healthcare system to the test over the past 18 months and has had a lasting impact on all market participants: payers, service providers, manufacturers and also on all of us, as (potential) patients. Accordingly, the topic of Corona and its...
Is a Limited Corona Vaccine Requirement Coming to the US?
Corona vaccination may soon be mandatory in the U.S., as 58 professional societies are now calling for it, echoing a statement by an oncologist and bioethicist, Ezekiel Emanuel of Pennsylvania University in Philadelphia. Emanuel recently stated that in order to ensure...
Revolutionary 3D Structural Analysis of Proteins
DeepMind, founded in 2010 and now part of Google, specializes in artificial intelligence (AI) programming. Recently, DeepMind achieved a breakthrough in protein structure elucidation, as researchers previously knew only 17 percent of amino acids (the smallest basic...
Corona Pandemic: Miscalculation in Respirator Ordering?
Due to the pandemic spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the German government ordered 20,000 respirators in 2020 for people severely affected by Covid 19 disease. However, the respirators were not needed in such large numbers and some orders were canceled. The FDP...
BAO Criticizes AOK Position Paper on Outpatient Care Services
A press release from the German Association for Outpatient Surgery (Bundesverband für Ambulantes Operieren e.V., BAO for short) states that outpatient surgery and non-inpatient procedures are to be better remunerated in the future in order to make patient care better,...
US Study on Diet for Migraine
In a study of 182 migraine patients at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, patients were evaluated for severity and frequency of headaches after eating certain foods for 16 weeks. In fact, scientists suspected that an imbalance of omega-3 to omega-6...
A powerful total solution from CGM and Recare
Koblenz-based CompuGroup Medical (CGM), a leading global e-health company with software solutions for doctors, pharmacies, laboratories, and hospitals, recently started a strategic collaboration with Recare Solutions to optimize a solution portfolio expansion in...
Explosion in the number of video consultations
The interest in and use of medical video consultations has increased dramatically in recent months. Telemedical consultations via the portal jameda.de are also in demand like never before. From March 2020 to June 2021, digital doctor visits increased forty-fold...