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DAK-Gesundheit: Fewer sickness notifications in the first half of the year
The IGES Institute, based in Berlin, recently evaluated the sick leave data for the health insurance company DAK-Gesundheit. Data from 2.3 million employees were provided for the analysis, which showed a decrease in sickness notifications in the first two quarters of...
Company health insurance fund sees the fundamental need for reform
The pronova Betriebskrankenkasse, an association of company health insurance funds of BASF, Bayer, Continental, and Ford with meanwhile more than 650,000 insured persons, calls on politicians to systematically reform the health care system after the Bundestag...
Is today’s hospital financing still sustainable?
Hospitals were supposed to keep enough beds free for patients affected by the pandemic during peak times in the Corona crisis. This was a major problem because hospital financing is only profitable if the utilization of bed capacities is also optimal. Therefore,...
Covid-19 has effects on the prescribing behavior of specialists
The comparison of the daily doses (DDD) prescribed nationwide by the statutory health insurance (SHI) from 2019 and 2020 shows that certain medical specialty groups are losers in the Corona crisis. In order to evaluate the annual trend, the GKV has correlated the DDD...
Caspar Health: Vision, growth, and effectiveness
These three keywords probably best describe the digital rehabilitation facility Caspar Health from Berlin. In the latest financing round, the largest investor, Frog Capital, invested nine million euros in the company. The growth of Caspar, founded only a few years ago...
Robot development in Lübeck
In Lübeck, various scientists have collaborated on developing a magnetic micro-robot smaller than a grain of rice. The Institute for Medical Technology at the University of Lübeck, the Fraunhofer Institute for Individualised and Cell-based Medical Technology IMTE, and...
Relatively safe cancer diagnosis through early detection test
The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) announces that there is a blood screening test that can detect 50 types of cancer in people at increased risk of cancer and in people over 50 years of age. All that is needed is a simple blood sample, which can then be...
Apo-Discounter: Advertising slogans praise new Rx shipments
The Apologistics Group with the German mail-order company Apo-Discounter from Markkleeberg near Leipzig and in Duiven (Netherlands), is pursuing the goal of becoming the market leader for the (German) online pharmacy market. At the moment, Apologistics is only the...
Google to set up and design new electronic patient record
The daily newspaper "Das Handelsblatt" recently reported that Google Health is said to have made great progress in developing the management of digital patient records. According to the report, Google is working flat out on cloud solutions to manage health data with...
Patients often pay extra for a specific tool
There are people with health insurance who use products that, besides the co-payment obligation of between five and ten euros, cause additional costs that have to be paid out of their own pocket. Why this is so, however, is not clear from the report of the umbrella...