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AI: New testing framework to ensure the quality of training data

24.09.2024

A testing framework has been developed at Germany’s national metrology institute, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), to ensure the quality of training data for medical AI applications. The framework, as well as a tool for the automated testing of algorithms, will be available to all developers.
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Anja Stübner, EKFZ für Digitale Gesundheit

Informed consent to the use of personal health data

22.11.2023

Millions of people worldwide use health and wellness applications to record health-related parameters such as symptoms, step count or heart rate in their everyday lives. This citizen-generated health data provides previously unknown information about a person's experience of illness and health.
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Linköping University

A step towards AI-based precision medicine

19.10.2023

Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have developed an AI-based method applicable to various medical and biological issues. Their models can for instance accurately estimate people’s chronological age and determine whether they have been smokers or not.
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Division of Medical Design Innovations, TMDU

Can ChatGPT diagnose a condition?

18.10.2023

A research group led by Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) finds that when common orthopedic symptoms are given, ChatGPT’s diagnosis and recommendations are inconsistent.
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Karin Kaiser/MHH

MHH and simpleclub strengthen digital MFA training

13.09.2023

To make medical assistants (MFA) fit for the future, Hannover Medical School (MHH) is launching a digital training offensive: together with the learning platform simpleclub, it is digitizing this professional training.
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Fraunhofer AISEC

Future-proof security architecture for healthcare communications

06.09.2023

Germany’s telematics infrastructure (TI) aims to allow healthcare professionals to exchange patient data securely, rapidly and from anywhere. The platform for healthcare applications will soon see a new security architecture. The aim is to make it easier to exchange data between all parties involved as well as to facilitate access to specialist services.
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monkeybusiness

Into the hospital of the future: data, digitization and artificial intelligence

18.07.2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its use is on everyone's lips right now. How AI will change and shape our future is being hotly debated. AI applications are also trending in healthcare. But before they can deliver on their huge expectations, the basics have to be met.
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EKFZ

AI against bowel cancer: research project DECADE

12.07.2023

The DECADE research project is the first to use swarm learning in cancer research. The German Cancer Aid is funding the joint project of several university hospitals with around 1.5 million euros.
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Fraunhofer IGD

Digital patient model: decision support for physicians and cost-saver

10.07.2023

New perspectives for the healthcare sector: The support system for decision-making developed as part of the MED²ICIN project should increase the treatment success rate. It supports physicians in their decision-making process by pooling all of the information on an individual patient and comparing this to that of cohorts made up of similar individuals.
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EKFZ/ A. Stübner

Chatbots like ChatGPT: approval as medical devices

06.07.2023

The new Nature Medicine paper by Prof. Stephen Gilbert, et. al. addresses one of the most pressing international issues of our time: How to regulate Large Language Models (LLMs) in general and specifically in health.
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Increasing training and use of new digital technologies in EU health services

18.05.2023

The Dynamic Digital Resilience for Medical and Allied Professions (DDS-MAP) in Health Services project aims to strengthen health systems and support the digital transformation of healthcare by understanding the digital learning needs of healthcare professionals and developing innovative learning programmes.
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Fraunhofer IDMT

EEG as an example of data protection for biosignals

16.05.2023

The “NEMO” project is exploring anonymisation techniques, using the example of electroencephalograms (EEG).
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DZHK

Collaborative and sustainable - the DZHK's clinical research platform

26.04.2023

At the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), clinical study data and samples belong not to individual clinics but to a superordinate structure - the DZHK. The basis for this is the collaborative clinical research platform launched ten years ago, which makes data and samples from all DZHK studies uniformly recordable.
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Shutterstock.com/PeopleImages.com - Yuri A

6G Health kick-off: better healthcare with 6G networking

18.04.2023

Starting now, the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) is developing fundamental technology components for 6G-based medical applications in the research project "6G-Health" (Holistic Development of High-Performance 6G Networking for Distributed Medical Technology Systems).
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nateemee

How dementia quality registries can contribute to better dementia care

10.02.2023

The Austrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment (AIHTA) has investigated which key factors are essential in the planning, design, implementation and operation of so-called dementia quality registries.
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