German healthcare bodies warm to DMPs (disease management programmes)
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Health insurance funds and doctors associations last week in Berlin voiced their support for health minister Ulla Schmidt's establishment of the disease management programmes (DMPs) to treat the chronically ill. At a congress on the future of the German health system, they agreed that the growing number of chronically ill patients in Germany had made this area of healthcare a particular cause for concern.