Category: News
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...
06.06.2023
digitalization
Increasing medication safety through digital drug reference
Dr. Claudia Mildner is a specialist pharmacist in clinical pharmacy, a certified business administrator in pharmacy (WDA), and president of the Congress for Drug Information. She sees evidence-based information as making a significant contribution to drug therapy and therefore...
06.06.2023
study
Hospital staff are under more psychological stress than ever before
Hospital staff are increasingly suffering from mental health issues. This is evidenced by analyses from AOK Rheinland/Hamburg. According to these analyses, sick days due to such diagnoses reached a record high in 2022: On average, each hospital employee was absent for 6.7 days due to...
06.06.2023
Indikationen
WHO Resolution: Milestone for Strengthening Rehabilitation Worldwide
Globally, up to half the population does not receive the rehabilitation they need. The World Health Organization (WHO) aims to change this. Its resolution on "Strengthening Rehabilitation in Health Systems" was adopted by all members of the WHO at the 76th World Health Assembly.
06.06.2023
Indikationen
Janssen is applying to the European Commission for approval of a new indication for CARVYKTI®
Der Antrag bei der Europäischen Arzneimittel-Agentur stützt sich auf Daten aus der Phase-III-Studie CARTITUDE-4, in der das Sicherheitsprofil und die Wirksamkeit von cilta-cel bei der Behandlung von Patienten, die bis zu drei vorherige Therapielinien erhalten haben, untersucht wurden. [1] ...
05.06.2023
Indikationen
G-BA starts consultations on data collection accompanying the use of Exagamglogen Autotemcel in sickle cell disease
The Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) is examining whether in-use data collection (AbD) is possible for the active ingredient exagamglogen autotemcel for the treatment of sickle cell disease. He began discussions on this on June 1st.