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Gesundheitspolitik
Ad-hoc survey reveals priorities – from reducing bureaucracy to ensuring supply security
The message from doctors' offices and pharmacies is unequivocal: Healthcare professionals expect tangible improvements in everyday healthcare from Federal Health Minister Warken – and they are pinpointing exactly where the problems lie. This is shown by the current Focus survey conducted by the Health Foundation among...
25.11.2025
digitalization
AI patient models enable practical learning for distance learning IU students.
As part of the research project "AI-Patient IPL," an interdisciplinary team at IU International University is developing AI-supported patient models. These text-based chatbots can be used in various modules that facilitate interaction with patients...
25.11.2025
Supply management
Patientenbefragung in Notaufnahmen zeigt hohe subjektive Dringlichkeit
88 percent of patients in emergency rooms consider themselves to have an "urgent" or "emergency" condition. 61.8 percent of respondents were aware of the service number 116117. 23.7 percent of participants would use digital self-assessment tools.
25.11.2025
digitalization
Siilo wird Doctolib Connect: Neue Team-Funktion und Öffnung für alle Gesundheitsberufe
The established, secure messenger Siilo is now called Doctolib Connect: The new name reflects its evolution into a comprehensive collaboration tool for the entire healthcare sector. With the new Team Inbox feature, entire teams – from hospital departments to general practitioners' offices – can now...
25.11.2025
study
Vier Standorte, eine Studie: Einmaliges Forschungsvorhaben zur Naturheilkunde in Deutschland
This is unprecedented: For the first time, three major clinics for naturopathy and integrative medicine in Bamberg, Berlin, and Essen have joined forces to develop an integrative naturopathic therapy with scientific support from the University of Tübingen, focusing on...
25.11.2025
Care
Mindestlöhne in der Altenpflege sollen erneut steigen
On November 19, 2025, the Nursing Care Commission unanimously agreed on higher minimum wages for employees in elderly care: The minimum wages for nursing staff in Germany are to increase in two stages by July 1, 2027. The minimum wages for nursing staff will be adjusted as before...
25.11.2025
Gesundheitspolitik
KVB-Vertreterversammlung: Fundierte Kritik an iMVZ – Politik muss endlich handeln
The Assembly of Representatives of the Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVB) addressed the urgently needed regulation of investor-owned medical care centers (iMVZs) at its meeting last Friday. The Assembly also discussed...
25.11.2025
Indikationen
A renewed AMNOG assessment of selpercatinib in thyroid cancer shows significant added benefit.
The drug selpercatinib demonstrated significant added benefit in the first-line treatment of patients aged 12 years and older with advanced RET-mutated medullary thyroid carcinoma in the reassessment under the German Act on the Reform of the Market for Medicinal Products (AMNOG). Selpercatinib was compared to vandetanib or...
24.11.2025
Personalie
BDP President Thordis Bethlehem confirmed in office with an overwhelming majority
At the BDP's autumn delegates' conference, held on November 22nd and 23rd at the House of Psychology in Berlin, important decisions were made regarding the future. The main focus was on the triennial elections of the association's board.