The German Association of Healthcare IT Vendors (bvitg) published its healthcare IT trend report at the beginning of March.
An entire chapter is devoted to the use of AI in healthcare. According to it, a quarter of respondents in Germany believe their health will improve through greater use of AI within 3 to 5 years. This share is considerably higher in the USA and France, at 32% and 37% respectively.
This fits with the March reports on new AI applications and products, a selection of which we present here:
- Better health and care through AI? The “Future Box” exhibition in Munich presents new developmentsBessere Gesundheit und Versorgung durch KI?
- Insilico Medicine receives 110 million dollars for AI-supported drug discoveryhttps://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/insilico-medicine-scores-110m-ai-enabled-drug-discovery/
- Fraunhofer Institute develops a new method for processing clinical documentation with the help of AIKI-gestützte Informationsverarbeitung im Gesundheitswesen: ELMTEX-Projekt optimiert Datenschutz und Kosten: E-HEALTH-COM
- Artificial intelligence helps in emergencies, with the first hospitals testing AI for emergency callsNotfallversorgung: Im Notfall hilft Künstliche Intelligenz
The bvitg regards AI as the first technology that could transform healthcare systems towards digitalisation without political steering:
Until now, this required “laws, funding mechanisms and political support“. AI, however, has the potential according to the association to “not just improve the [healthcare] system, but to fundamentally change it”.
The bvitg report is available here: Aktuelle Publikation: Trendreport Gesundheits-IT 2025 – BVITG