Projects

We bring together the expertise of medical professionals and high-tech specialists to create ideal framework conditions for promising medical research.

The EKFZ for Digital Health supports Interdisciplinary Innovation Projects (IIPs). IIP funds are institutional seed funds designed to quickly build new collaborations and test new ideas. IIPs support the road to a “proof-of-concept” that allows these teams to go on to acquire third-party or industry funds to translate their ideas into clinical practice.

IIP_MedTech: Interdisciplinary Innovation Projects on digital health technologies to address a medical need deal with novel digital health technologies in the field of robotics & co-working, sensors, implants & devices and connected care and support teams of physicians and high-tech specialists.
IIP_Social: Interdisciplinary Innovation Projects on societal impact of digital health technologies support ideas with a focus on the humanities and social sciences in order to develop the topic of digital health in a holistic way.
IIP_Economic: Interdisciplinary Innovation Projects addressing health economic aspects of digital health technologies contribute to a successful implementation of new digital health technologies into routine care. They consider topics such as demand orientation, user-centricity and added-value of digital health solutions.

The EKFZ functions as an accelerator for the local eHealth network. To make digital health work and to strive for excellence, we need to overcome the traditional boundaries of medicine, engineering and computer science and establish a new structured research interdisciplinarity. With regular symposia, multiplier and public events and workshops the EKFZ strengthens the eHealth network in Dresden and Saxony. This contributes to a lively and interactive eHealth network on the Dresden campus.

Interdisciplinary Innovation Projects

We support innovative interdisciplinary research projects from the idea to the prototype.

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eHealth Network

Many minds – one team. The EKFZ functions as the connecting link to bring digital health into clinical practice.

Members and partners

Joint Projects

CYMEDSEC

Enhanced cybersecurity for networked medical devices through optimisation of guidelines, standards, risk management and security by design

DECADE

Decentralized AI for diag-nosis, prognostication and response prediction in CRC

IntelliLung

Artificial intelligence to help optimize ventilation of intensive care patients.

KIMEDS

Artificial Intelligence assisted certification of medical software

ODELIA

Open Source Swarm Learning to Empower Medical AI

PATH

Personal Mastery Health & Wellness Data

SEMECO

Secure Medical Microsystems and Communications

Transform Liver

Scaling up Vision Transformers for Biomarkers in Liver Disease

Tangerine

AI-based end-to-end prediction of cancer immunotherapy response