Research2Guidance November 8, 2019
On 7. November 2019, the German House of Parliament passed new rules supporting digital innovation in Germany. The new rules will have a far-reaching impact on the public health insurance of the 72 million insured citizens. Physicians are able to prescribe medical apps. Telehealth offerings are planned to become the norm. Access to medical patient’s data is provided to research organizations. It all starts 2020/2021!
Germany has always been a market that looked attractive from the outside for digital health startups worldwide. Yet there are hundreds of examples of digital health innovators from Germany and companies from outside that either moved out again or failed all together. Restrictive regulations and persistence of the established health system seemed to be too...