Digital Health
Berlin's digital health hub brings together innovative startups and scale-ups, renowned technology providers, research excellence and outstanding healthcare.
Berlin is one of the most attractive locations in Europe for the life sciences and healthcare industries and a major hub for the IT sector. This combination makes Berlin an ideal testing ground for digital health innovations. Companies, research institutes, clinics, healthcare providers, networks and public authorities – together they create the ideal environment for developing, evaluating and bringing digital solutions to market in the healthcare sector.
A top location for digital health innovation
Whether digital therapies, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, image and data analysis or surgical navigation – a wide range of research institutes in the capital region is successfully working on forward‑looking developments for personalized and innovative medicine.
- Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD)
- Berlin Institute of Health (BIH)
- Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT)
- Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Center for biomedical image and information processing (CBMI) at HTW Berlin
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
- Einstein Center Digital Futur (ECDF)
- Friede Springer Cardiovascular Prevention Center @Charité
- Hasso-Plattner-Institut (HPI) – Cluster „Digital Health“
- HTW University of Applied Science
- Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)
- TU Berlin
- Medizinische Universität Lausitz – Carl Thiem (MUL-CT)
- Several Fraunhofer Institutes such as FOKUS, HHI and IZM, including the joint Leistungszentrum Digitale Vernetzung (Digital Networking Performance Center)
- Center for Artificial Intelligence - Public Health Research RKI
- Zuse Institute Berlin
Why Berlin?
„The Berlin ecosystem offers us a rich and diverse talent pool: we find experienced software and marketing veterans, international expats of all backgrounds, as well as a broad pool of excellent medical professionals who want to build a career outside clinical care.“
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Startup capital
Startups are driving developments in the healthcare industry with their digital expertise and innovative spirit, delivering new ideas and solutions. In the capital region, hundreds of young companies are developing apps, wearables, and software solutions for prevention, diagnostics, therapy, and care. Modern technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and distributed ledgers increase efficiency and significantly reduce the workload for healthcare facilities, e.g., in documentation and patient management.
The regional startup ecosystem is highly self-organized and offers young pioneers numerous formats such as barcamps and hackathons. International companies and established players are specifically seeking to collaborate with startups here in order to develop new digital health solutions. As the seat of government, Berlin is also a central location for many industry associations in the field of healthcare IT – an additional advantage for exchange, networking, and market access.
Incubators/accelerators and startup centers, including those in the field of digital health, as well as innovators and investors from around the world are coming to Berlin because this is where the future of health and care is being shaped.
