Yesterday Apotheke Adhoc reported that dm-med, dm’s entry into the online pharmacy market, is not yet disrupting other online pharmacies (translated): In terms of product range, dm-med remains significantly more limited compared to traditional mail-order pharmacies. According to an analysis, the drugstore chain's subsidiary
From kma Online (translated, emphasis mine): Grim prospects: Germany is already short approximately 4,400 general practitioners. By 2040, this gap could widen to around 12,000 unfilled GP positions – that would be roughly one in five positions nationwide. This is shown in the recently published study "Primary Care
In Clinician Economics, Part 1 I briefly covered the concept of unit economics and entertained the idea of applying that to a clinical setting in the context of new products entering the market. In Part 2 I illustrated why the in-patient clinician may not be particularly inclined to adopt
In Clinician Economics, Part 1 I briefly wrote about the idea of unit economics and tried to setup the stage for how that may be applied in a healthcare setting, starting with two distinct types of clinicians - the in-patient and out-patient physician. Now let’s see how those
In tech there is a lot of talk about unit economics - the direct revenue and costs of a business expressed on a per-unit basis, where a unit can be anything - the product, the service, the customer or even the employee. The aim is to gain an understanding about business
No comments today, just inspiration: Midjourney Medical When you step into the water, you’re standing on top of a platform. The platform is connected to rails and begins to descend into the water - an elevator gently lowering you at around 2 inches, or 5 centimeters, per second. As you
From kma Online (translated, emphasis mine): Within just a few months, Avelios Medical has achieved its second major upset in the German HIS market. Following its partnership with SAP, the young Munich-based HIS provider has now also entered into a strategic partnership with Fresenius. Fresenius, with its German hospital
Agentic AI has come to medicine, from Eric Topol (emphasis mine): The overall diagnostic accuracy for MIRA was 87.8% compared with BC physicians at 78.1%. That increase was especially notable for specific diagnoses like pancreatitis (95.2% vs 78.6%), and appendicitis (100% for MIRA, 88% for BC
From Sifted (emphasis mine): Healthtech startup Alan has raised a €480m Series G funding round, valuing the digital insurer and healthcare platform at €5.5bn. Dutch investment giant Prosus led the round, alongside existing backers Index Ventures and Teachers' Venture Growth, as well as new investor Dara Holdings. Founded
In his 2011 annual letter to shareholders Warren Buffett wrote: At bottom, a sound insurance operation needs to adhere to four disciplines. It must (1) understand all exposures that might cause a policy to incur losses; (2) conservatively evaluate the likelihood of any exposure actually causing a loss and the
The transition from in-patient to out-patient care is continuing in Germany. From Kalms Consulting (emphasis mine): The German healthcare system is under pressure. In April 2026, the Health Finance Commission presented 66 proposals, approximately three-quarters of which are to be implemented by the Federal Ministry of Health.