1st eHealth Kongress

smart medication – Visit us at our booth at the 1st eHealth Kongress – Networked Health in Rhine-Main and Hesse. On Friday, October 17, 2014, gesundheitswirtschaft rhein-main e.v., opens in a new tab is organizing the 1st eHealth Kongress – Networked Health in Rhine-Main and Hesse in Darmstadt. In addition to exciting talks and an interesting exhibition, we will also be presenting smart medication at our own booth.

In Forum 4 (Mobile health – medical apps & co.: requirements, therapeutic relevance, and legal framework), Dr.-Ing. Andreas Rösch M.S. and Dr. med. W. Mondorf will present the project at 3:45 p.m. in a panel discussion.

Healthcare industry sounds the alarm, opens in a new tab (Ärzte Zeitung app, October 21, 2014, in German)

“Home monitoring for the chronically ill or interdisciplinary case conferences via the internet. Given demographic change and the shortage of physicians in structurally weak regions, Brauns therefore sees no way around telemedicine.…Teleconsultations could save physicians time. But they cannot bill for them. That is one of the reasons why telemedicine has so far barely arrived in standard care in Germany.” (By Antonia von Alten)

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Telemedicine on the rise, opens in a new tab (Ärzte Zeitung, opens in a new tab, October 20, 2014, in German)

DARMSTADT. The use of telemedicine could bring advantages above all for physicians in rural areas. Hesse’s Minister of Economics Tarek Al-Wazir (The Greens) pointed this out at the first E-Health Kongress “Networked Health in Rhine-Main and Hesse” in Darmstadt. “Physicians should spend their time treating patients, not sitting in their cars on the road,” Al-Wazir emphasized.

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