Digital Health

This roadmap unfolds its great potential within the entire Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. The Fraunhofer ICT Group acts here as a complementary entity to the original players at Fraunhofer, but plays a key role in the digitalization of healthcare and medicine.

Market potential

• Healthcare industry 2022:
  • EUR 439.6 billion (2021: EUR 391.8 billion)
  • 12.7 percent (2021: 12.1 percent) of the gross domestic product
  • 17.8 percent (2021: 17.2 percent) of the labor market
• Average annual growth in the last 10 years: 4.6% (overall economy: 3.5%)
• Savings potential: EUR 42 billion per year through greater use of digital technologies

Priorities

Mission and vision

• Translational health research for the benefit of patients
• Cost-intelligent solutions for optimal, affordable healthcare
• Focus areas
  • “Secure Medical Data Space”
  • Data in the Fraunhofer 4D concept
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Digital twins and automation

Prof. Matthias Unbescheiden

Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD

Additional Supervisors

• Prof. Horst Hahn (Fraunhofer MEVIS)
• Prof. Peter Liggesmeyer (Fraunhofer IESE)

Fraunhofer ICT Group

• Fraunhofer Institutes FIT, FOKUS, IAIS, IDMT, IESE, IGD, IIS, IKS, ISST, ITWM, MEVIS, SCAI, SIT

Other Fraunhofer Contributors

• Fraunhofer Group for Health
• Fraunhofer Health Alliance
• Strategic Research Field “Health”