BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – The health insurance company DAK-Gesundheit has called for more cooperation in view of the delays and criticism from doctors in the introduction of new digital health applications. What is needed is “an honest and quick assessment of where the problems with digitization lie,” said CEO Andreas Storm on Wednesday to the address of the federal government. It will be crucial to involve both doctors and health insurance companies more closely and to shape digitization together. This must be based on everyday care and the benefits for patients.
Storm called the results of a survey among doctors “a wake-up call” that must have consequences. According to this, 65.7 percent said they did not believe that digitization of care would lead to improvements in practice processes. For the survey on behalf of the DAK and the “Ärzte Zeitung”, 585 doctors and psychotherapists were interviewed from September 17th to November 1st./sam/DP/ngu
