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Apply by November 3, 2023 to the BIH Digital Health Accelerator Program, which provides funding to help you translate your digital health venture.

On May 31, 2023, the sixth annual Demo Day of the BIH Digital Health Accelerator Program took place, bringing together a diverse group of innovative minds in the heart of Berlin. The event, hosted by the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH), showcased seven exceptional teams of Charité/BIH clinicians and researchers presenting their digital…

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.

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.