Current
digitalization
acatech Impuls shows a need for action in the use of digital health data
Die Medizin in Deutschland bleibt hinter ihren Möglichkeiten, solange sie Daten unzureichend nutzt. Wie sich das ändern kann, erörtert der am 7. Juni erschienene Impuls „Gesundheitsdatennutzung – sicher und souverän“. Neben bundeseinheitlichen Regeln, differenzierter Datenfreigabe und ...
07.06.2023
Pandemie
Treatment of long and post-Covid: no evidence of benefit from “large ozone autohemotherapy”
Das wissenschaftliche Team des IGeL-Monitors hat die IGeL „Große Ozon-Eigenbluttherapie“ zur Behandlung von Patientinnen und Patienten mit Long-/Post-Covid mit „unklar“ bewertet. Es liegen keine Studien daten vor, die darauf hinweisen, dass dieses Verfahren die Symptome von ...
07.06.2023
Indikationen
EARNEST-Studie – Vedolizumab ist wichtige Therapieoption bei mittelschwerer bis schwerer aktiver chronischer Pouchitis bei Colitis ulcerosa
Vedolizumab (Entyvio®) ist das erste in Europa zugelassene Biologikum für Patient:innen mit mittelschwerer bis schwerer aktiver chronischer Pouchitis bei Colitis ulcerosa. [1] Die Phase-4-Studie EARNEST erreichte den primären Endpunkt einer klinischen Remission, gemessen anhand des mPDAI ...
06.06.2023
study
Sick leave in the first quarter of 2023 remains at a record high
The sickness absence rate among employed TK-insured individuals remained at a record high of 5.89 percent in the first quarter of 2023. On average, each employed person insured with TK was on sick leave for 5.31 days from January to the end of March of this year. For comparison: In ...
06.06.2023
Gesundheitspolitik
Pharmacy Day: Young professionals launch initiative „Against future theft“
The owners of the nearly 18,000 pharmacies in Germany are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit new staff. Many young pharmacists fear that the pharmacy profession is at risk due to a lack of political support. Together with hundreds of young female pharmacists...
06.06.2023
How does the transformation of the healthcare system succeed?
On September 30, 2023, Purpose:Health eV will host the first Purpose:Health Symposium in Kassel, under the motto "Out of the valley of tears: How can the healthcare system be transformed?", to network stakeholders from all professions who are working to bring about sustainable change in the healthcare system...
06.06.2023
Supply management
OECD report confirms OptiMedis care model
According to models by the international Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), expanding OptiMedis' integrated care model to the whole of Germany could gain more than 146,000 years of life and nearly 100,000 years of life with... between 2022 and 2050.
06.06.2023
study
Cost explosion in the healthcare system
For years, pharmaceutical spending in Germany has been trending in only one direction: upwards. However, it remains largely unclear who is primarily responsible for this cost explosion and how these increased expenditures will develop in the long term. A new study by WHU – ...
06.06.2023
Pandemie
Significantly fewer antibiotic prescriptions in Germany
During the Covid-19 pandemic, doctors prescribed significantly fewer antibiotics compared to previous years. This is reported by Prof. Dr. Karel Kostev, scientific director of epidemiological research at IQVIA Germany, and colleagues in the internationally renowned journal Antibiotics. The...