“We are not talking just about voice recognition or just about AI, but about linking the most diverse technologies for diagnostics and prevention. It starts getting really exciting when, for instance, the vocal tone, the rhythm, or volume is also included as a kind of voice biomarker in the analysis. Information like this could support rescue teams or caregivers in performing precise diagnoses on patients with cardiovascular issues or mental diseases,” elaborates Dr Bit-Avragim.
All this, though, she admits, is possible only when there is data security. And she continues that especially when these are being linked, the patient must still retain the overview of their various sources. She confesses immediately to an option for greater data security – the embedding of cloud based voice recognition in protected hospital infrastructures. And concedes that there are such solutions for Alexa based applications.
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Developments powered by 5G technology
As an actual instance in Germany, the launch of the new 5G standard for mobile data transfer is expected to fuel developments in digital health services. Especially in the telemedicine fields, this could lead to new solutions in rural areas. Hosted by Professor Björn Bergh, Chief Digital Officer of the Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital, an MIHF panel consisting of Tomer Epstein (IEI), Monika Gatzke, (Competence Center 5G.NRW), Thomas Heyn (Fraunhofer IIS), and PD Dr Michael Kranzfelder (Chief Consultant at the Department of Surgery of the Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich) will be discussing on 19 November this near future under the heading “5G — der Weg zum medizinischen Datenmanagement in Echtzeit” (“5G — The road to medical data management in real time”).
How digital twins are enriching medicine
Should people with medical issues be able to access a twin in the new virtual world? Answers to this will be provided at another session of the MEDICA HEALTH IT FORUM on 19 November (from 2:30 pm). Here will be discussed the extent to which digital twins can improve health care for their human, i.e. physical twins. This session will be hosted by Christina Rode-Schubert of Orange itb GmbH. She explains the meaning of “digital twin” as follows: “It is about transferring real objects to the virtual world in the form of big data analyzed by AI algorithms.” One key application is in the research field.
The heart can be found at the focus of the work by Dr Tobias Heimann, who will be reporting at the MEDICA HEALTH IT FORUM. As Head of Artificial Intelligence Germany for Siemens Healthineers, he works on a virtual heart. Since Siemens can exhibit a wide product portfolio and years of experience in the cardiology field, it can therefore provide valid databases. These can be used to map the digital twin of a human heart’s physiological system. Supported by multiscale models, electrophysiology, biomechanics, and haemodynamics, Siemens is collaborating with partners in the simulation of trends in specific patients and their response to treatment. After all: every heart is different.
