Health Innovation Hub
| Health Innovation Hub (hih) |
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| founding | April 11, 2019 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| resolution | December 31, 2021 |
| Website | hih-2025.de |
The health innovation hub (hih) is a project of the Federal Ministry of Health (Germany), which assumes the function of an interdisciplinary expert think tank and sparring partner for the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) with a focus on the topic of digitization in the health sector.
Foundation, term and management
The hih was inaugurated on April 11, 2019 by Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn . The project has a fixed term and ends on December 31, 2021. Financing is entirely from the BMG. The hih is led by Jörg Debatin and Henrik Matthies.
tasks
The health innovation hub supports the Federal Ministry of Health, but also many other national actors such as the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices , the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians , the German Medical Association and the Central Association of Health Insurance Funds in digitizing the health system in Germany . The declared aim is to increase the benefits of digitization, especially for improved patient care. In addition to conceptual work, the tasks also include communicative activities, evaluations of innovations and concrete implementation support.
For example, with the publication of the first draft bill of the Digital Supply Act in the early summer of 2019, the hih organized a roadshow through the German digital health ecosystems in order to inform the manufacturers of digital health applications as well as the health insurance companies and doctors about the new law in a structured manner and to receive their feedback Discuss possible implementation challenges early on. Since then, the hih has held numerous offline and online events, often together with national players in the German health care system, in which different aspects of the new law were explained and discussed.
In addition to the Digital Supply Act, the hih also supports the conception and implementation of the electronic patient record # Germany , electronic medication, the medical research data center and the medical AI strategy.
team
The twelve-person team includes experts from the healthcare sector:
- Nataliya Bogdanova, previously worked for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Europe
- Jan Brönneke, lawyer and economist
- Jörg Debatin, most recently Global CTO at GE Healthcare
- Claudia Dirks, health journalist
- Julia Hagen, previously the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media operates
- Kai Heitmann, international expert for interoperability and data formats
- Philipp Kircher, expert for data protection in health care and medical and health law
- Ralf König, self-employed pharmacist, founder of the pharmacy e-commerce platform Curacado
- Henrik Matthies, serial founder (including Jodel )
- Ecky Oesterhoff, previously CIO of BG Kliniken and expert for hospital IT
- Lars Roemheld, data scientist and philosopher
- Philipp Stachwitz, specialist in anesthesiology
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ see list of abbreviations "Abbreviations for the constitutional organs, the highest federal authorities and the highest federal courts". In: bund.de. Federal Office of Administration (BVA), accessed on June 17, 2020. http://www.bund.de/SharedDocs/PDF/Abkuerzungsverzeichnis-des-Bundes.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
- ↑ Digital scene: Health Innovation Hub opens in Berlin https://www.aerzteblatt.de/nachrichten/102427/Digital-Szene-Health-Innovation-Hub-in-Berlin-eroeffnet
- ↑ Digital Supply Act https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/digitale-versorgung-gesetz.html
- ↑ DVG Startup Roadshow - slides, information, next dates https://hih-2025.de/dvg-startup-roadshow-folien-infos-naechste-termine