The Digital Health Center (DHC), founded in 2017 at HPI under the direction of Prof. Erwin Böttinger, is an open network for scientists and research institutes that work together in the common pursuit of advancing the healthcare system with new digital health applications and strengthening the patient’s role.
In his interview with Prof. Böttinger, Dr. Martin Hirsh, neuroscientist, physiologist and founder and CEO of ada Health, said that with the digital revolution in medicine and the advent of personalized medicine, personalized prevention is also made possible. Ideally, in his words, this means a “healthcare system that ensures that we don’t get sick in the first place.”
Under the direction and moderation of Prof. Dr. Erwin Böttinger, a discussion followed with Dr. Friedrich von Bohlen (Dievini Hopp Bio Tech), Prof. Dr. Annette Grüters-Kieslich, (University Hospital Heidelberg), Prof. Dr. Frank Ulrich Montgomery (German Medical Association), Dr. Markus Müschenich (Flying Health) und Thilo Veil (Töchter & Söhne). The discussion focused on Germany’s goal of achieving a leading position in the field of digitization.
Speaking to the approximately 8,000 representatives from all areas of the health care sector, Minister of Health Jens Spahn warned about further delays in digitization. According to the Minister of Health, the advance of eHealth is unstoppable worldwide: “The offers are coming in or are already here, among them those from Amazon, Google, and Dr. Ed. And much more is happening in China that we don’t even hear about.” Spahn added: “Are we directly shaping what is happening or is it being shaped on the outside before it reaches us?”
According to Spahn, at the moment the German government is considering how a new data law could reform data privacy so that the huge amounts of data generated in the health sector could be better utilized.
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