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A large proportion of people use the Internet to obtain health information. There are also numerous digital information offerings on preventive care documents, which are an important way to plan ahead for illness and treatment situations. As part of a cross-sectional survey on pension documents in the Würzburg region, 240 people were asked about their search for information on the Internet and their experiences in the area of pension documents. The majority of respondents (67%) have already searched for information about pension documents on the Internet.
02.08.2023
With the introduction of the Swiss per-case flat rate system (SwissDRG) in 2012 to contain costs in the healthcare system, a paradigm shift in the billing of healthcare services took place - away from cost recovery towards service financing. In order to cushion the negative effects of the introduction, the legislature included various measures in the Federal Health Insurance Act (KVG). One of these protective measures was acute and transitional care (AÜP). However, the intended benefits of AÜP were not achieved for various reasons. Therefore, the “At Home Instead of Home” project sought to develop a business development model as a possible solution.
02.08.2023
The aim of the present study was to determine the age of new cancer patients in 2010 and 2022 and to evaluate the changes in the proportion of early-onset cancers in the total number of cancer cases in private practices. This retrospective cross-sectional study included adult patients (≥18 years) with an initial cancer diagnosis in 557 private practices in Germany in 2010 or 2022 from the Disease Analyzer database (IQVIA).
02.08.2023
The aim of this analysis was to identify federal state differences in the use of complex acute pain treatment. Hospital case numbers for complex acute pain treatment and all hospital cases in 2021 were taken from the InEK database. These were used to calculate age-standardized rates (ASR) for complex acute pain treatment per 100,000 hospital cases as well as standardized rate ratios (SRR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI).
02.08.2023
„"Hospital reforms are always evolutionary processes." Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg, Professor of Health Care Management at the University of Hamburg and a member of the German Council of Experts on the Assessment of Developments in the Health Care System, is considered one of the most influential economists in Germany. In an interview with "Monitor Versorgungsforschung," he has high hopes for the upcoming hospital reform, which he describes as an evolutionary step [...]
05.06.2023
Report on the “constitutional conformity of the reform of hospital planning”
05.06.2023
While the first two events of the MVF specialist congress series “Vaccination Status” in 2021 and 2022 focused more on the medical perspective, this year the thematic cycle was expanded to include that of the scientific community and pharmacists. The first experiences from two innovation fund projects on the subject of vaccination were highlighted and a project was presented that was carried out in cooperation between a private health insurance company and a pharmacists' association.
05.06.2023
With the end of the maximum legally possible term of eight years, the ARMIN model project, the Saxony-Thuringia pharmaceutical initiative, was ended on June 30, 2022. This means that a promising and now even positively evaluated care approach, which promotes and interlinks interprofessional collaboration between doctors and pharmacists for the benefit of the patient population being cared for together, is on the brink of extinction. It is no wonder that the actors used the opportunity when the evaluation data was presented to put forward political demands in order to maintain the positive effects of ARMIN beyond the end of the project and possibly even further develop them, although in the opinion of the ARMIN- Project partners must first create the necessary legal basis.
05.06.2023
Report on questions regarding the need for further development of hospital planning on the basis of service groups
05.06.2023
Key points paper from the German Catholic Hospital Association. V. (kkvd)