🏛️ Policy & influence

• Strategic health policy positioning on behalf of digital healthcare companies in the Bundestag, with public authorities and with other associations
• Early access and regular updates on legislative changes and regulations with the opportunity to actively comment and directly participate in shaping health policy
• Daily updates on health policy topics

🤝 Network & exchange

• Networking with more than 160 member companies via Slack
• Exclusive network meetings and roundtables: Invitations to specific networking events
• A wide range of top-class webinars

🧠 Knowledge transfer & thought leadership

• First-hand practical knowledge: access to the association's specialist working groups with the latest knowledge and expertise in areas such as data protection, telemedicine, market access, evidence, interoperability, medical device regulation and digital care
• Joint training sessions with the option of CME certification on our platform
• Joint LinkedIn events (> 15K followers, > 1,000 views), appearances on the SVDGV podcast (> 5,000 streams) and joint on-site events
• Business directory: extensive page in the internal member area and presentation of the company on the SVDGV website
• Participation in the association's bug bounty programme

• that generate their own revenue from eHealth services used by patients, insured persons or healthcare professionals,
• that do not themselves generate genuine eHealth revenue, but whose products or services substantially correspond to, or are an essential component of, digital or telemedical health, nursing care, rehabilitation and prevention services used by patients, insured persons or healthcare professionals.
• Ordinary membership is also open to business associations that are active nationwide in the field of eHealth and the digitalisation of medicine and nursing care with offerings intended for direct use by patients, and that represent the interests of providers.

Supporting membership can be granted by the Board on application to:

• companies and organisations that do not meet the requirements for ordinary membership set out in the Articles of Association,
• regional associations that are not active nationwide,
• individuals who are merchants or freelancers (self-employed entrepreneurs) and do not at the same time hold a position in a company that would be eligible for membership under § 3 no. 1 of the Articles of Association.