Category: News
Personalie
hcb and ETL establish joint venture for consulting services in the healthcare sector
On February 27th, hcb GmbH and ETL WRG GmbH founded VALERIO GmbH. This merger combines what has already proven successful in numerous projects: pooling their respective expertise when it comes to designing new healthcare models along with the development of...
21.03.2023
Drug therapy in Germany is more complex than ever before: Over a 10-year period, patients receive an average of 37 diagnoses and 20 prescribed medications across 21 doctors' offices. This was the assessment recently published by the health insurance company Barmer for individuals over 40. Furthermore, doctors...
21.03.2023
Supply management
Electronic visits possible in nursing homes
Residents of nursing homes in Saxony can now receive telemedicine care. A pilot project, initially limited to four facilities in the Ore Mountains, is now being expanded to the whole of Saxony. The electronic visits, conducted via laptop, PC, or smartphone...
21.03.2023
Indikationen
The flu is back and unpredictable – vaccination rates remain too low
This flu season has seen a high number of flu cases again, following the easing of many pandemic hygiene measures. A flu vaccination offers the best possible protection against infection and its potentially serious consequences. Therefore, it is particularly important for people over 60 to get vaccinated...
21.03.2023
Indikationen
Researchers at the University of Regensburg and doctors at the university hospital are developing a novel screening tool to improve tumor treatments
According to the Robert Koch Institute, approximately 19,000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer each year. The five-year survival rate is only 8-101,000, making pancreatic cancer the fourth leading cause of cancer death. For this reason, it is important to...
20.03.2023
Personalie
Shop Apotheke appoints Olaf Heinrich as the new CEO
Subject to approval at the Annual General Meeting, Olaf Heinrich will be appointed the new CEO of SHOP APOTHEKE EUROPE by the Supervisory Board, effective August 1, 2023. He will succeed Stefan Feltens, who will step down on April 26, 2023, after completing his four-year term...
20.03.2023
Personalie
New spokespersons for the DIVI Hyperbaric Medicine section
The DIVI Hyperbaric Medicine section will be represented externally by two new spokespeople: Dr. Annett Seiffart, Senior Physician at the Department of Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care at Halle University Hospital, is now the spokesperson. Prof. Dr. med. ... has been appointed deputy spokesperson.
20.03.2023
Gesundheitspolitik
Reform der Unabhängigen Patientenberatung und Änderung weiterer Gesetze
Der Bundestag hat am 16. März die Reform der Unabhängigen Patientenberatung Deutschland (UPD) beschlossen. Damit wird der Grundstein für die Neustrukturierung der UPD als Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts gelegt.
20.03.2023
Gesundheitspolitik
„Die normative Kraft des Faktischen ist nicht aufzuhalten“
„Eine kritiklose Öffnung der Krankenhäuser für ambulante Leistungen verkennt die Versorgungsrealitäten“, erklärte heute Dr. Andreas Gassen, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Kassenärztlichen Bundesvereinigung (KBV). Er kritisierte die Aussagen des Ministers im Rahmen des Krankenhausgipfels, die ...
15.03.2023
study
AOK-Familienstudie deckt Wissensdefizite auf
Viele Eltern sehen die Zukunft ihrer Kinder durch die Klimakrise zwar bedroht, doch nur ein Drittel misst einer nachhaltigen Ernährung eine hohe Bedeutung bei. Laut aktuellem wissenschaftlichen Studienbericht zur AOK-Familienstudie 2022, deren zentrale Ergebnisse Ende vergangenen Jahres ...