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Spring Launch For Germany’s Digital Strategy

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Interested parties have been consulted, workshop findings noted and online surveys completed; the drafting of Germany’s digital health strategy is now underway.

Digital Consultation
• Source: Alamy

The four-month-long survey and outreach work coordinated by Germany’s health ministry (BMG) aimed at building a national digital health care strategy is now complete.

A variety of formats were used to gauge the views of several hundred individuals and institutions. The strategy is now...

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