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10 June 2025

Compassana Quiz number 5: Right or wrong?

Once a month we put your knowledge to the test. Is that right? The Compassana app allows you to store your medical documents digitally.

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03 June 2025

Compassana’s contribution to digital connectivity in the Swiss healthcare system

Due to certain standards, medical data can be exchanged electronically in an efficient manner. Thanks to Compassana’s participation in the FHIR working group of the HL7 User Group Switzerland, the mapping of treatment data has been defined in the FHIR implementation guide CH Core and is now available to the entire Swiss healthcare system.

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27 May 2025

Question of the month: What are the benefits of the Compassana app if I am in good health?

The Compassana app has been designed not just for people with chronic medical conditions in mind, but also provides many benefits for healthy, active individuals in their day-to-day lives.

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20 May 2025

How are cancer and nutrition linked?

Time spent enjoying a good meal with family or friends is a pleasure for many people. If we talk about food, however, we also have to address the topic of health. What we eat, and the amount of food we eat, has an effect on the body.

13 May 2025

Compassana Quiz number 4: Right or wrong?

Once a month we put your knowledge to the test. Is that right? The Compassana app is only available in Switzerland.

E-prescription is scanned via QR code at the pharmacy.

06 May 2025

Swiss e-prescription initiative: Partners look ahead together

The Swiss e-prescription initiative, supported by the Swiss Pharmacists' Association pharmaSuisse, the Swiss Medical Association FMH and HIN, can look back on a successful year – and is focussing on the expansion and practical anchoring of e-prescriptions across the board in 2025.

Three features of the Compassana app are presented: insurance guide, claimed medication and symptom check

29 April 2025

Question of the month: What are the advantages of logging on to Compassana via your account with a partner insurer?

All patients over the age of 16 covered by the Swiss health system can enjoy the benefits of the Compassana app. Our partner insurers, Helsana, Groupe Mutuel and SWICA, offer their policyholders additional functionalities in the Compassana patient app.

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22 April 2025

“We share an important principle”

Appointment booking specialist OneDoc and Compassana have been working together for many months already. Our common goal is to accelerate digitalisation for outpatient healthcare providers. Time for an interim summary from Arthur Germain, CEO of OneDoc.

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15 April 2025

Sweet drinks are said to be responsible for ten per cent of diabetes cases

According to a recent study in the journal ‘Nature Medicine’, one in ten cases of diabetes worldwide can be attributed to the consumption of sugary drinks. In addition, one in 30 cases of cardiovascular disease is directly linked to sugary drinks. The international research team behind the study calls for policy action to reduce the health risks.