Telekom and vitagroup improve medical care and research

• Consolidated and structured data for care and research
• Pioneering offer for clinics
• Telekom and vitagroup offer open platform in Open Telekom Cloud
• Artificial intelligence will help in the future

Data is valuable. But only if it is available and can be analysed. Deutsche Telekom and vitagroup are offering a solution. “We provide clinics with an open platform that makes healthcare data usable independently of individual manufacturers. Using vitagroup’s HIP Clinical Data Repository (HIP CDR), data can be easily stored centrally, processed in a structured manner and made available to other applications in real time. This can also be done anonymously for research purposes,” explains Dr Nils Hellrung, Director Strategy & Operations Officer at vitagroup. “This helps institutions to build an interoperable, data-centred system landscape and work more efficiently in healthcare and research.”

In healthcare, data not only helps with care and research, but also the patients themselves. In order to provide patients with the appropriate care, data must be consolidated and available. Hospitals collect data in more than 220 individual systems, such as radiology, the emergency department or the central hospital information system (HIS). This data is often not transferable, exchangeable or analysable. Not within the hospital, not with other hospitals or research institutions, not with general practitioners or physiotherapists. This is exactly what vitagroup and Deutsche Telekom want to change.

Milestone for hospitals

Deutsche Telekom is responsible for the integration of the vitagroup platform, staff training, hosting in the Open Telekom Cloud (OTC) and security. Europe’s leading public cloud fulfils the high German requirements for data protection, data residency and security. Numerous services can be added to the HIP CDR.

“Our joint solution is another milestone on the digitalisation path of clinics,” says Gottfried Ludewig, Managing Director of Telekom Healthcare Solutions. “And that’s not all. Among other things, we offer the medical profession decision-making aids for treatments with the analysis options and KPI dashboards. The more data they have at their disposal, the better they can care for patients and manage structures more efficiently. Patients and clinic staff alike benefit from having all relevant information, such as appointment overviews, is clearly bundled in one app. Another advantage of the platform is that it works exclusively with international standards. All data is transferred in its original format and then stored in the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR for short) or openEHR standard, depending on the application. This means maximum manufacturer independence and future-proofing. Hospitals finally have full control over their data.

Artificial intelligence will help in the future

“The platform is just the beginning. The potential of generative AI, which will help us to evaluate and analyse data even faster and more effectively, will also take effect in this area,” explains Ludewig. Potential customers are not just the 250 or so clinics in Germany that use Telekom’s own HIS iMedOne, but all hospitals.”

Press release from Telekom and vitagroup

This is a joint press release from Telekom and vitagroup. The press release, contact details and further information about the release can be found here.

Learn more about the HIP CDR at DMEA 2024