Fraunhofer IPA
The role of 5G technology in hybrid operating rooms
13/12/2024
The 5G-OR project, an international collaboration between German and French research teams, is exploring how 5G and AI technologies can enhance the safety, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of surgeries. By developing high-tech hybrid operating rooms, the project paves the way for remote surgeries, improved patient monitoring, and real-time data exchange.
Hospital of the Future – Tomorrow’s hospital at MEDICA 2024 already
13/11/2024
At MEDICA 2024, the Hospital of the Future showcases pioneering digitalization solutions for hospitals.
The Virtual Patient Avatar: All vital signs at a glance
10/09/2024
The Virtual Patient Avatar from Philips is being used for the first time at the Neurocenter at Bonn University Hospital. It displays patients' vital signs in a simplified way using colors, shapes and animations.
University of the Basque Country
Models that predict poor clinical outcome in COVID-19 patients
24/11/2023
Factors associated with hospital admissions, ICU stays and mortality in patients who have had SARS-CoV-2 are identified, and clinical prediction rules are developed.
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Training surgery with the DynamicHIPS system
06/11/2023
When surgically inserting an artificial hip, the preparation of medical staff jumps from theory to practice directly on the patient. The training system OrthoMiniGames now offers a simulation as an intermediate step. The use of virtual reality optics combined with tactile devices provides the opportunity to conduct the procedure within a haptic experience before approaching the patient.
ThamKC
AI-powered triage platform could aid future viral outbreak response
12/09/2023
A team of researchers from Yale University and other institutions globally has developed an innovative patient triage platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that the researchers say is capable of predicting patient disease severity and length of hospitalization during a viral outbreak.
AndersonPiza
Danger from chatbots: Do they need regulation as a medical device?
12/09/2023
Chatbots like ChatGPT have great potential for medicine. But their unregulated use in healthcare poses a great danger because of their inherent risks. A Nature Medicine article by Prof. Stephen Gilbert et al. calls for medical device approval for chatbots and applications based on them.
duallogic
AI will soon be able to write doctor’s letters
08/08/2023
Around 150 million doctor’s letters are written every year in Germany. This takes precious time which could be used elsewhere. The “doctor’s letter generator”, which is currently being developed by scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, could provide a solution for creating the document in a fraction of the time.
Kathrin Seibert
AI: How can you bring health professionals and algorithms together?
18/07/2023
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) can relieve healthcare workers and improve patient care. A survey among healthcare professionals in the medical and nursing sector by the 'Platform Learning Systems' has found that employees are open-minded, but demand changes in their daily work in return.
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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Digitization, AI, robotics: how healthcare will change over the next 50 years
07/07/2023
A study by researchers at Mälardalen University (MDU) describes what our future healthcare industry may look like.
Fraunhofer IZM
Providing care when it is needed – Radar system recognizes and tracks people and objects
27/03/2023
The researchers of Fraunhofer IZM have integrated a miniature radar system into an LED ceiling light that can track and recognize movement patterns and locate people or objects in a room.
Petra Ritter/BIH
European test infrastructure for AI and robotics in healthcare
09/03/2023
The Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) is part of the EU project TEF-Health (Testing and Experimentation Facility for Health AI and Robotics), which aims to establish a test infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics in healthcare.