On February 11, 2026, the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) published its further development of the digitalisation strategy for healthcare and long-term care.
Three planned measures in particular are relevant for DiGA manufacturers and medical device companies:
- DiGA/DiPA and ePA: in future, DiGA and DiPA will not only be able to write data to the electronic patient record (ePA), but also read data from the ePA where this is necessary to personalise the application. This makes a bidirectional data exchange between DiGA and ePA possible.
- Telemedicine care models: more comprehensive telemedicine care models are also to be integrated into DiGA in future.
- Artificial intelligence: the stated goal is for AI-supported documentation to be actively used in more than 70% of healthcare and care facilities by 2028. The Health Research Data Centre is to be expanded to be “AI-ready” in order to enable better use of data for testing, training and validating AI applications. By the end of 2028, there should also be blueprints for the conformity assessment documentation for AI applications in healthcare.
The Federal Ministry of Health has already announced a draft bill for a “Act on Digital Care and the Health Data Space” for the first quarter of 2026, which would anchor the central goals of the strategy in law.
You can download the strategy paper here: Weiterentwicklung Digitalisierungsstrategie