Opening Keynote by the Federal Minister of Health
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Nina Warken, Germany’s Federal Minister of Health, outlines pressures on the German healthcare system—staff shortages, demographic change and rising costs—and argues that digital technologies are underused despite political support and available innovations. The talk focuses on scaling digital applications across care, implementing practical legal frameworks, and identifying concrete steps for stakeholders to accelerate and shape the ongoing digital transformation of healthcare.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Opening keynote
- 1:06Digitalization in healthcare
- 3:34Stable health app infrastructure
- 5:19Primary care and digital triage
- 6:45Digital legislation and care processes
- 7:47Electronic patient records
- 9:11Data availability and bureaucracy reduction
- 10:14Health research data center milestone
- 12:20EU health data space and AI labs
- 15:07Strengthen Germany as innovation hub
- 17:34Q&A
- 21:46Summary
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