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The spread of invasive fungal infections poses major challenges, particularly for hospitals, due to the complexity of treatment and the associated long hospital stays. Innovative drug therapies offer potential for cross-sectoral patient care and optimized management throughout the patient journey.
02.02.2025
The healthcare landscape for patients with chronic inflammatory diseases in Germany appears highly heterogeneous, including with regard to intersectoral care. Significant differences in interdisciplinary collaboration exist, particularly with regard to its structure and organization. Uniform standards and binding quality criteria, such as those required by and for inflammation centers, are also lacking in the outpatient sector. In individual interviews and web conferences with specialists from inflammation centers and outpatient specialists in dermatology, rheumatology, and gastroenterology, recommendations were developed on how intersectoral collaboration could be optimized. The results particularly confirm the experience that uncomplicated communication between specialists working in inflammation centers and in outpatient settings is essential. A dedicated contact person in the inflammation centers and uniform access routes were clearly the top priorities for action.
02.02.2025
Im Interview: Prof. Dr. oec. Leonie Sundmacher MSc, Technische Universität München, Lehrstuhl Gesundheitsökonomie
03.12.2024
Insights DKVF 2024: Preconference and State of the Art Session
03.12.2024
SBK-Onlineworkshop: „Wer fragt eigentlich die Patient:innen? – Mehr Qualität mit dem Modell Niederlande“
03.12.2024
Kommentar von Dr. med. Ruth Hecker, Vorsitzende Aktionsbündnis Patientensicherheit >> Die laufenden Gesetzgebungsverfahren im Bereich Gesundheit dürften nach dem Aus der Ampel-Regierung nicht ganz so einfach beendet werden, wie sich das Gesundheitsminister Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach vorgestellt hat. Das betrifft sowohl das Gesundheitsversorgungsstärkungsgesetz, die Reform der Notfallversorgung, das Gesundheits-Digital-agentur-Gesetz, das Pflegekompetenzgesetz, ein für diesen Herbst […]
03.12.2024
The consolidation of the hospital market is driven by economic constraints, as smaller facilities are often no longer able to operate profitably. The trend toward centralization is being politically promoted by hospital reform and is intended to improve the quality of care through specialization and concentration of resources. However, by 2022, only 1,075 hospitals in Germany had intensive care capacity [1].
03.12.2024
Healthy people swallow up to 2,000 times a day without even thinking about it. Aging processes jeopardize the adequacy of swallowing: Swallowing disorders in nursing homes are underdiagnosed, their impact underestimated, yet, along with their complications, they are the most common cause of death there. A closer look reveals a devastating picture of care. This paper outlines the current challenges of data inaccuracy and the lack of diagnostic and therapeutic care against the backdrop of possible innovative forms of care and their implementation in a care pathway yet to be developed.
03.12.2024
This article examines the practical implementation of the interface between the price regulation instruments AMNOG and the fixed price in the German pharmaceutical market from 2011 to July 2024. It examines three typical case scenarios of the linking of the price regulation instruments and analyzes the procedural practices of self-administration based on previous application.
03.12.2024
Practice networks can be defined as regional associations of medical service providers that aim to improve the care of a group of patients receiving shared care. The aim of this survey was to obtain and systematically present information on the organization of practice networks, their cooperation and communication, as well as established initiatives to improve the quality of care.