Tag: Digital health
What you need to know about the protest
Pharmacy protest day On June 14, 2023, many pharmacies in Germany will remain closed. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf, Berlin After the Corona years, which were expensive for the health system, the…
First tropical virus vaccine about to be approved
Work for the mosquito atlas Doreen Walther at her workplace in the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research. The biologist identifies mosquitoes under the microscope and enters the results in…
Novartis puts billions on the table for US company Chinook
Novartis laboratory By 2027, the group would like to grow by an average of more than four percent a year with innovative medicines. (Photo: DigitalVision/Getty Images) Frankfurt The pharmaceutical company…
How the Gerresheimer share benefits from the hype surrounding the weight loss injection
Dusseldorf Excess pounds can now simply be squirted away: the hype surrounding the drugs Ozempic and Wegovy is huge – especially since it has been known that the active ingredient…
New patent dispute over corona vaccine against BioNTech, Pfizer and Moderna
Covid vaccine Biontech, Moderna and Pfizer made billions from their Covid-19 vaccines. (Photo: IMAGO/Beautiful Sports) Washington The US biotech company Promosome sees its patents being violated by the billions of…
Record funding for biotech firm ITM
Laboratory at ITM The Munich company was able to collect more than 200 million euros from investors. (Photo: ITM) Frankfurt In one of the largest private investment rounds in the…
AOK reports security gap: 19 million policyholders affected
OK Health insurance companies have recently been increasingly targeted by hackers. As a result of a cyber attack, data from patients with statutory health insurance was leaked at the beginning…
AOK reports security gap – more than 16 million policyholders affected
OK Health insurance companies have recently been increasingly targeted by hackers. As a result of a cyber attack, data from patients with statutory health insurance was leaked at the beginning…
Kassenverband considers over 400 clinics in Germany to be dispensable
hospital bed The GKV has calculated how many clinics are needed in Germany for adequate care. (Photo: dpa) Berlin It is a central question of the clinic reform by Federal…
Kassenverband considers more than 400 clinics to be dispensable
hospital bed The GKV has calculated how many clinics are needed in Germany for adequate care. (Photo: dpa) Berlin It is a central question of the clinic reform by Federal…
How one of the largest clinics in Germany uses ChatGPT
Doctor at the computer Speech models can log the patient conversations and thus give the doctor more time for the treatment. (Photo: The Image Bank/Getty Images) Berlin What is still…
Apple Watch helps heart muscle patients
Cologne Within a few days, the life of 38-year-old Hermann Müller-Laforet has turned around completely. In November of last year he climbed 3,000 meters in four hours on a mountain…
VR glasses, crime scenes in 3D and big data: Insights into digital forensics
Digital manhunt Technological developments in forensic science are rapid. (Photo: Klawe Rzeczy, Getty, PR) Zurich When the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Zurich examines a corpse, it…
Surprising ideas at the Weconomy start-up competition
Theresa Vilsmaier Fertility helper: The start-up Levy Health by reproductive medicine specialist Theresa Vilsmaier wants to enable couples with an unfulfilled desire to have children to have faster diagnostics. Theresa…
In Tel Aviv, the robot takes patients to the specialist doctor
hospital How dominant will machines be in the hospital of the future? (Photo: dpa) Tel Aviv The first surprise awaits right at the entrance to the emergency room: There is…
Why Bertelsmann is investing 161 million in an education company in Brazil
Dusseldorf Bertelsmann takes over the majority in the Brazilian education service provider Afya for 161 million US dollars (equivalent to almost 153 million euros). The media, service and education group…
Medical start-up collects 500 million euros
If a doctor uses the appointment booking software from Doctolib, patients are reminded of the doctor’s appointment by SMS. (Image: IMAGO / Hans Lucas) Cologne The French digital health company…
Smudo’s company Culture4Life does not extend the contracts with Schleswig-Holstein
Luca app Health authorities in 13 federal states currently use the Luca system. (Photo: dpa) Düsseldorf / Cologne The federal states spent 22 million euros on the Luca app last…
Smudo’s company Culture4Life does not extend the contracts with Schleswig-Holstein
Luca app Health authorities in 13 federal states currently use the Luca system. (Photo: dpa) Düsseldorf / Cologne The federal states spent 22 million euros on the Luca app last…
What Germany can learn from digital Finland
Digital health communication A Corona app was also built into the Kanta system. (Photo: dpa) Berlin While the new health minister, Karl Lauterbach, has just postponed the start of the…