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Time is of the essence in stroke

In the IKP app you can find tips on how to provide first aid in the event of a stroke, the Ministry of Health informed on the occasion of the World Cerebral Stroke Day, recalling that in such cases, time is the most important thing.

Oct. 31, 2022
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Patients in hospitals do not have access to the Internet

Patients in more than half of Polish hospitals do not have access to Wi-Fi, according to a study conducted by Biostat at the request of Fortinet. In just one fifth of hospitals, Internet access is provided everywhere. More than half of the branches that do not provide Internet access do not plan...

Oct. 31, 2022
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Applications for e-Gabinet, however, by the end of the year

The call for applications for subsidies under the e-Gabinet program was extended until the end of the year, informed the Ministry of Health. The ministry reminds that the maximum value of in-kind support related to the purchase of computer equipment is PLN 68,000. PLN for each POZ facility. No...

Oct. 28, 2022
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Innovative treatment of hearing loss in a hospital in Bydgoszcz

Hospital of dr. Antoni Jurasz in Bydgoszcz, Poland is the second in Poland to start a program of conductive and mixed hearing loss treatment using an innovative active bone implant. It is one of the most modern medical solutions in the treatment of hearing disorders.

Oct. 28, 2022
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Medexpress message summary - 10/28/2022

613 medical entities have already signed contracts with the National Health Fund for financing ICT purchases increasing the level of cybersecurity. The total amount of the contracts exceeded PLN 260 million. The pilot training in the field of cybersecurity for POZ employees has already started....

Oct. 28, 2022
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AOTMiT: Transparency Council incl. about PBL

On Monday, October 31, another meeting of the Transparency Council.

Oct. 28, 2022
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EKG yesterday, today and tomorrow

On November 26, at the Clinical and Didactic Center of the Medical University of Lodz in Aula 1000, the 13th Lodz Scientific Conference "EKG yesterday, today and tomorrow" will be held.

Oct. 27, 2022
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Long Covid under the magnifying glass of Polish researchers

Scientists are getting closer to explaining the mystery of the so-called long COVID. Long COVID (Long Covid), a syndrome of prolonged symptoms affecting people who have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, may affect up to half of all those infected. However, it is still unknown what causes...

Oct. 27, 2022
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Medexpress message summary - October 27, 2022

The most modern clinical trial center in Europe has been opened at Gładka Street in Warsaw. At this point, patients can receive treatment using innovative therapeutic options that could be reimbursed even in a few years. The opening of the new headquarters of the clinical research unit, which has...

Oct. 27, 2022
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The Ministry of Health invests in cybersecurity of health care institutions

613 healthcare entities have already signed contracts with the National Health Fund to finance ICT purchases increasing the level of cybersecurity. The total amount of the contracts exceeded PLN 260 million. Yesterday, a pilot training session in the field of cybersecurity for POZ employees was...

Oct. 27, 2022
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Changes in the Medical Fund. What the money for?

The Parliamentary Health Committee recommends that the Sejm adopt the presidential draft amendment to the Medical Fund Act. Also, opposition deputies, despite reservations and proposed amendments, claimed that the changes were necessary and were going in the right direction.

Oct. 27, 2022
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A new clinical trial center in Warsaw

The most modern clinical trial center in Europe has been opened at Gładka Street in Warsaw. At this point, patients can receive treatment using innovative therapeutic options that could be reimbursed even in a few years. The opening of the new headquarters of the clinical research unit, which has...

Oct. 26, 2022
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Medexpress message summary - 10/26/2022

From next year, night and holiday medical care is to be provided at every hospital emergency department and in every hospital, announces the health ministry. The spokesman for the ministry, Wojciech Andrusiewicz, in an interview with Polsat News said that even 80 percent. HED patients are not...

Oct. 26, 2022
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From next year, night and holiday medical assistance at each HED

From next year, night and holiday medical care is to be provided at every hospital emergency department and in every hospital, announces the health ministry. The spokesman for the ministry, Wojciech Andrusiewicz, in an interview with Polsat News said that even 80 percent. HED patients are not...

Oct. 26, 2022
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Krystyna Wechmann: We waited a long time for treatment in triple-negative breast cancer

- There was no cure for triple-negative breast cancer for a long time and as soon as it appeared, we waited for it to be reimbursed quickly. In October we were informed that the therapy would be available in Poland - said Krystyna Wechmann, president of the Polish Coalition of Cancer Patients and...

Oct. 25, 2022
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Barbara Dziuk: My dream is to be able to take care of health from kindergarten to senior age

- Patients will have better treatment and medical care comfort, as well as the awareness that an expert who treats a woman will be able to help her so that she recovers. This is a milestone in European standards, said MP Barbara Dziuk in an interview with Medexpress, commenting on the changes in...

Oct. 25, 2022
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Adam Niedzielski: In the production of drugs, we have to become independent from India or China

- We should be independent in the production of medicines in Europe - said the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski in Washington. The head of the ministry took part in the Biotechnology as an engine of innovation - Polish-American cooperation conference, organized by the Kulski Foundation for...

Oct. 25, 2022
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Filip Nowak: This is an attempt to organize the financing of benefits and the relationship between the market and the National Health Fund

Am I satisfied with the plans to transfer the financing of benefits from the budget to the National Health Fund? I believe that the legislator takes into account the potential of the National Health Fund, said NFZ President Filip Nowak during the inauguration of the Health Market Forum, which...

Oct. 25, 2022
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Hospital in the ICU - episode 1: Tomasz Kopiec

- I found a situation in which we actually did not have radiologists. This was the result of tensions between this professional group and the hospital management. In a way, I inherited this conflict and tried to resolve it. With the help of director Adam Karolik, we managed to solve this problem...

Oct. 25, 2022
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Waldemar Kraska: I hope these are the last months of the pandemic

- We are close to including Covid-19 among other infectious diseases that occur seasonally, like flu - said Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska in the program Kwadrans Polityczny on TVP Info.

Oct. 24, 2022
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"Jump to the National Health Fund": opposition from social partners

Trade unions and employers' organizations strongly oppose the idea of ​​adopting regulations transferring all financing of health services to the National Health Fund without the participation of the state budget and the manner in which the government wants to adopt a controversial solution.

Oct. 24, 2022