Darmstadt digitally progressive | Darmstadt

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With its clinics and research facilities, the “Science City” offers ideal conditions for redefining progress in digital medicine in a practical and safe manner.

With his announcement to establish a competence center for digital medicine and a local data platform for health data, the Darmstadt hospital department head André Schellenberg has given an important impetus. He himself speaks of a “small, delicate plant”. The “science city” with its various clinics and research facilities offers ideal conditions for defining progress in digital medicine in a practical and reliable manner. Not only should the various technical possibilities be considered, but also their limits and risks.

According to the German Ethics Council, it must also be a matter of guaranteeing “treatment-oriented medicine” in which people and their privacy are the focus. The top priority in this context is the confident handling of personal data. It is thanks to Franz Grubauer, the director of the Evangelical City Academy Darmstadt, to have initiated an important discourse. The ground for sustainable development is prepared. Now the “tender plant” still has to grow and be nurtured in order to bear fruit.

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