In order to improve care for about six million people with severe mental illnesses in Germany, a digital platform has been developed by members of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin at Campus Charité Mitte. The platform, called Recovery Cat, provides patients with individualized therapy plans and…
It may be the most baffling quirk of COVID-19: What manifests as minor, flu-like symptoms in some individuals spirals into severe disease, disability, or even death in others. A paper recently published in Nature may explain the genetic underpinnings of this dichotomy.
The BIH DHA spin-off AIgnostics successfully closes a €14 million Series A round to enter additional markets.
On May 31, 2022, the Digital Health Accelerator Program of the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) celebrated its fifth birthday at Demo Day 2022. The entertaining program included presentations by successful grantees and partners, as well as pitches by the seven 2022 newly funded teams of physicians and researchers from Charité -…
We performed a systematic review of concepts and solutions for use cases such as digital contact tracing to inform the current discussions on an optimal balance between privacy protection and pandemic control.
The SCOR Consortium aims to use state-of-the-art cryptographic techniques to evaluate mass data on COVID-19, while protecting the privacy of patients.
A multidisciplinary team of scientists will establish a research data infrastructure for personal health data in Germany: NFDI4Health. The BIH Medical Informatics Group is a partner in this initiative.
The article provides an overview of how the German Medical Informatics Initiative has decided to implement electronic representations of data use permissions that are interoperable across different standards.
