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Where the digital doctor’s visit already works
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The prerequisites have already been created to make the health system more modern, more digital and therefore more efficient. In Germany, however, there is a lack of implementation in many areas.
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The corona pandemic has relentlessly exposed the weaknesses of the German health system. Many other countries are already further along. Four views abroad that are worthwhile.
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Silke Bigalke, Claus Hulverscheidt, Karin Janker, Alexander Mühlauer and Angelika Slavik
The fax machine gained some fame in this pandemic. It became a symbol of the backwardness of the German health system: health authorities that can only be reached by fax – a bitter one running gag in the fight against the coronavirus. But the German healthcare system has some catching up to do in terms of digitization, and not just in the administrative area. Whatever the outcome of the struggle to form a government in Berlin, the future coalition expects a mountain of work in this area.
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