27. July 2023
Fernwald, 27.07.2023 – The annual fundraising bike tour “Tour of Hope” for the benefit of children and young people with cancer in Germany made an inspiring stop yesterday at the company medDV in Fernwald. Despite the changeable weather, the participants did not let themselves be diverted from their mission and gathered in large numbers to do good together.
Since its inception in 1983, the Tour of Hope has tirelessly fought to improve the lives of young cancer patients and their families. Each summer, cycling enthusiasts, donors and supporters pedal to raise vital funds to support children with cancer.
This year’s stop at medDV not only provided the participants with a stage for the emotional handover of donations, but also a variety of delicious treats generously provided by the Künkel bakery, Rewe Fernwald and the Fernwald municipality. Coffee, cake, cold drinks and sandwiches provided the necessary refreshment, while the good mood and atmosphere of solidarity made the rain clouds forgotten in no time.
This year, the Tour of Hope received special support: Among others, star chef Johann Lafer and biathlete Magdalena Neuner, well-known personalities from the culinary and sports world, were also present and brought their enthusiasm for the good cause.
The handing over of the donation checks from the company medDV, the bakery Künkel, the Rewe Fernwald and the municipality Fernwald as well as other donors, made it clear that only joint action can bring about a real change. Every contribution was gratefully received and will make a valuable contribution to making the lives of the young fighters easier.
The Tour of Hope proves once again that it is a source of inspiration and cohesion. Through the power of community spirit and with the aim of improving the lives of children and young people with cancer, the Tour sets an impressive example of solidarity year after year.
21. July 2023
A perfect duo for rescue: The reliable CareSens N NFC blood glucose meter from A.F.S. Biotechnik now communicates with the NIDApad.
For many years, rescue services have appreciated the reliable and attractively priced products of the CareSens N line. The new partnership between A.F.S.-Biotechnik and medDV GmbH from Fernwald in central Hesse now significantly expands the range of applications for this customer group: in the future, the CareSens N NFC can be read out very easily via the NIDApad.
The robust NIDApad enables reliable mobile data acquisition in the tough environment of rescue services and is now standard in many deployment scenarios. In addition to communication between the control center and the ambulance or navigation to the scene, communication with other medical devices is also one of the pad’s basic functions.
This is precisely where the new cooperation with A.F.S. Biotechnik comes into play: the CareSens N NFC can be coupled with the NIDApad via an NFC interface. Incidentally, everyone is familiar with NFC (near-field communication) technology from everyday life: for example, it enables wireless exchange between two devices in the immediate vicinity in the case of bank cards. Blood glucose readings can thus be transferred extremely quickly and reliably from the meter to the pad.
17. July 2023
Fernwald, 17.07.2023 – “When I see and hear this, I get the urge to drive emergency medical services again”, this is how the Member of the Bundestag and Chairman of the Budget Committee Prof. Dr. Helge Braun summarized an appointment in Fernwald. There he visited the company medDV together with the state parliament candidate in constituency 19, Lucas Schmitz, and the chairman of the local CDU, Jan-Eric Walb. They were received by the managing directors Gunter Ernst and Carsten Rausch.
“The more information we can transmit directly, the better the patient care. Our platform-independent solutions offer real added value and can accelerate and thus improve patient treatment,” said Carsten Rausch. His colleague Gunter Ernst emphasized: “We both come from the rescue service and therefore know what is important. That is particularly important in all our solutions.”
During the discussion, it became clear that Germany still has some catching up to do in terms of digitization and the efficient transfer of patient data compared to other countries. Prof. Dr. Helge Braun expressed, “We can see that there is still a lot to do.” It is therefore all the more gratifying and significant that we have such an innovative and modern company as medDV in our region. Modern technical aids can not only speed up work processes, but also improve patient care for the benefit of those affected. This was emphasized by the specialist in anesthesiology, who also worked for many years as an emergency physician in Central Hesse.
During the further discussion, various topics such as tele-medicine, specialist recruitment and employee retention were discussed. medDV is also active in the field of tele-medicine and has already successfully won its first tenders. The company would like to push the expansion of this field in Central Hesse and offers its support there.
With all these plans, however, it is important to ensure an appropriate level of growth, as it is difficult to find the skilled workers needed. Particularly in the area of IT specialists, there is a high pressure to poach. The company medDV tries to counteract this by offering good pay, a family-like working environment and various measures such as a self-prepared lunch for employees.
State parliament candidate Lucas Schmitz praised these measures and emphasized that family- or entrepreneur-managed medium-sized companies are not only the backbone of the economy, but are also distinguished by their care for employees. Visitors to the event were able to see the positive aspects for themselves.
Schmitz also emphasized the importance of politics in creating favorable framework conditions for companies. In this context, he said, it was important to reduce the increasing bureaucracy and lack of flexibility, as well as to improve the complicated and sometimes impractical tendering procedures in Germany. The politicians were given these points as important impetus to take with them.
16. July 2023
During the annual reception in the Friedberg town hall on 04.07.2023, the IHK Gießen-Friedberg awarded the companies medDV and Rinn Beton- und Naturstein as winners of the IHK Company Award 2022. The companies received the award at the annual reception of the IHK Gießen-Friedberg on Tuesday in the Friedberg town hall for their innovative concepts and their commitment to sustainable business management. “With the IHK Enterprise Award, we want to show how innovative and high-performing our companies in the region are,” explained IHK Chief Executive Dr. Matthias Leder.
The Fernwald-based company medDV is a software service provider that has set itself the goal of digitizing the entire rescue chain. medDV stands for medical data processing. A total of 108 employees work for the company. An important aspect in the company’s management is the topic of sustainability.
Digitization can save lives
Gunter Ernst, managing director and co-founder of medDV together with Carsten Rausch, explained that the company’s focus is to make the entire rescue chain digital and free of media breaks from start to finish: From the time the alarm is raised, the data is transferred digitally to tablet PCs. The data is then transferred from the scene of the emergency directly to the hospital, so that the hospital can prepare itself optimally for the patient. Data can also be forwarded to billing and quality assurance.
The two managing directors had seen on a daily basis for years in their own work in the rescue service that smooth communication without media discontinuity is important and, in case of doubt, can even save lives. They were encouraged in their plans by the advice they received from the Giessen-Friedberg Chamber of Industry and Commerce: “You could perhaps even go so far as to say that without the Chamber we wouldn’t have existed at all,” says Gunter Ernst, looking back.
Sustainable all along the line
But sustainability is not only important to medDV in the area of patient care: “We heat with wood and have a photovoltaic system on the roof. We have LED lighting throughout the building so that we don’t waste energy there either. When repairing the tablets, only the components that are defective are replaced and not the entire components, in order to work as gently as possible,” Gunter Ernst presents key areas of sustainability.
Sustainability is also an important topic with regard to the employees. To ensure that the staff feels comfortable and enjoys working at medDV in the long term, the company has come up with a number of additional benefits: private supplementary health insurance, a business bike, a massage chair, a freshly prepared daily lunch free of charge, or the payment of kindergarten fees are available to employees. In the future, too, employee satisfaction, ‘happiness’ at work, will be a very important issue.
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4. April 2023
The requirements for digital solutions around the management of patients in emergency services are increasing more and more. In addition to patient data management, the topics of telenotary and registration of patients in hospital emergency rooms are increasingly coming into focus and are becoming essential components of an overall solution for customers. “In order to remain competitive in the long term, we are particularly pleased to have found a partner in medDV GmbH who is very well versed in all of the aforementioned topics and can offer solutions,” says André Schulte, CEO of WEINMANN Emergency.
Cooperation in development, marketing and sales
WEINMANN Emergency and medDV have signed a strategic cooperation agreement for collaboration in the areas of development, marketing and sales and will thus work together as partners in the long term. In this context, medDV GmbH will take over the MEDICALPAD solution and the employees of WEINMANN Emergency at the Hamburg site and will continue the existing customer relationships in the long term. The topic of digitalization remains an important part of WEINMANN Emergency’s strategy: “We are focusing on expanding the interoperability of our therapy devices in order to be able to integrate them into the system landscape of emergency services in a future-proof manner,” says Steffen Schmitt, Head of Product Management Digital Services. The managing directors of medDV GmbH Carsten Rausch and Gunter Ernst are looking forward to the future cooperation. “We are convinced that we will benefit in the long run by merging the products and teams as well as by cooperating with WEINMANN Emergency, and that we will be able to offer our customers reliable overall systems. In this way, we would like to consistently further expand the digitalization of the emergency services.”
6. October 2022
At RETTmobil International 2022, medDV will present its market-leading hardware and software solutions from 11th to 13th May in Fulda. Until then, customers and interested parties can experience the company’s solution news by phone, in digital meetings and personal appointments.
