Webinar: Digital Health Data in Personalized Medicine (Codex4SMEs)

The Interreg NWE project Codex4SMEs is proud to organise this webinar with Prof. Dr. Christoph Dieterich, Dr. Christoph Schickhardt, and Dr. Yuksel Temiz addressing the high potential of digitizing the healthcare system in terms of clinical data exchange, policy frameworks and development of connected health devices for point-of-care testing.

Agenda

14:00 Words of welcome and short Codex4SMEs project introduction

14:05 HiGHmed: Open Data Standards for Clinical Care and eHealth   by Prof. Dr. Christoph Dieterich, Head of Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Cardiology at Heidelberg University Hospital

• Visualization of cancer treatment course and data exchange between hospitals, research institutes, clinicians and patients

• Identification and treatment of high-risk patients at an earlier stage by generating highly specific and comprehensive data sets through mobile diagnostic devices

• Automated early warning system to protect patients from new infections

14:25 Commercializing Digital Health Data – Ethical Considerations  by Dr. Christoph Schickhardt, Senior Scientist, Program of Translational Medical Ethics, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

• Policy framework and recommendations for international data sharing and data access

• Practical handling of big data-based decision making in the clinical and public health context

• Knowledge transfer from translational research and evaluation of the evidence levels for Personalized Medicine

14:45 Digital Diagnostics: Connecting POC Devices to Smartphones  by Dr. Yuksel Temiz, Research Staff Member, Precision Diagnostics Group at IBM Research Europe (Zurich)

• Sensitive, low-cost, rapid and connected diagnostics at the point-of-care

• Advanced diagnostic technologies based on microfluidics and IoT

• Portable and connected diagnostic platform: microfluidic and electronic components for Precision Diagnostics

15:05 Q&A

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