Recently, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced an ambitious initiative that will explore solutions for equitable health care at home. Researchers from the EKFZ for Digital Health and TUD Dresden University of Technology now share their views on the initiative as well as the opportunities and challenges of establishing digital health solutions in home environments.
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Flexible suites of Digital Health Technologies: Need for tailored regulation and reimbursement
Digital health technologies (DHTs), including wearables, mobile devices, and telemedicine, have become essential to modern medicine. Combining these individual applications into comprehensive packages often proves beneficial for addressing specific clinical needs.
How deep learning identifies key mutations in colorectal cancer
Using artificial intelligence, the group of Professor Jakob N. Kather together with colleagues from Créteil/France, Augsburg, Heidelberg and Leeds/UK have published a method in the Nature portfolio journal “npj Precision Oncology”, which is able to predict specific genetic subtypes of colorectal cancer based on their appearance on histopathology slides.
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The Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health at TU Dresden has been established in September 2019. Driven by specific medical needs and with direct access to medical infrastructure, the EKFZ’s research projects accelerate the digitalization of medicine – for the benefit of patients.
At work with Dr. Muti
Dr. Hannah Muti is a Clinician Scientist at the Clinical AI research group of Prof. Jakob N. Kather. She explains why it is an advantage to be actively involved in a hospital as researching doctor, how she manages both tasks and how artificial intelligence is already being used in hospitals.
Clinicum Digitale
Interdisciplinary Spring School
The next Clinicum Digitale will take place from 24.03 – 02.04.2025.
Annual Reports
Read all about the activities and news from last year in our EKFZ Annual Report 2024. We are proud to introduce you to our funded projects, young talents, EKFZ professors and their research areas. We also give you an insight into the facts and figures about the EKFZ.
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