On November 28, the 8th Patient Monitoring Roundtable took place at the Einstein Center Digital Future under the inspiring theme “Science or Science Fiction? The Future of Patient Monitoring.” As the grand finale of the three-part event series “Patient Monitoring – past, present and future”, this last event of 2024 offered a platform to develop visions and ideas for the future of patient monitoring…

Patient monitoring has evolved from basic devices to indispensable, highly advanced systems that continuously measure vital parameters, analyze data in real time, and trigger alarms at deviations. These innovations were at the heart of our 7th Patient Monitoring Roundtable on October 15th, held at the Berlin Simulation and Training Center…

Patient Monitoring – past, present and future. But how did it begin? At our 6th Patient Monitoring Roundtable on September 5, Prof. Ankele explored the history of Patient Monitoring in her insightful keynote. What began as an art – listening to patients, observing them with all senses – was completely transformed by the advent of increasingly advanced technologies...

On June 27, together with the esteemed Dräger team, we focused on an important topic in the field of interoperability: Service-oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).
The SDC interface enables cross-manufacturer networking of medical devices. Although many clinicians are still unfamiliar with this technology, it has become considerably more important in the last two years. SDC could soon play a central role…

At the fourth roundtable of the year (May 30, 2023), PD Dr. med. Akira-Sebastian Poncette delivered the introductory keynote on "Monitoring in the Hospital of the Future." …

After the 4th Patient Monitoring Roundtable 2024, the first roundtable half of 2024 is now behind us. What an exciting year! Once again, the evening, which was entitled “From Data to Decisions: How AI and CDSS are transforming healthcare” was dedicated to a much-discussed topic and was extremely interesting and informative…

The third Patient Monitoring Roundtable 2024 focused on the very important topic of data protection and cybersecurity. Keynote speaker Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Dierks covered legal requirements and the impact of recent legislation. The following workshops emphasized the growing cybersecurity threats in healthcare and the importance of data protection for fostering patient trust and innovation. Key findings included…

At the second Patient Monitoring Roundtable 2024, we have set ourselves a lot of goals under the promising motto "Together for innovation: Participatory implementation for a digital healthcare system". At a time when the digitalisation of the healthcare system is progressing rapidly we discussed new solutions through participatory implementation…

The Patient Monitoring year 2024 started with an exciting look beyond the horizon, as we were able to secure Dr. Oliver Opatz from the Institute of Physiology at Charité, a recognized expert in extreme environments and space medicine, for our kick-off event…

Two years ago, when we initiated the Patient Monitoring Roundtable, we could never have imagined the remarkable events it would lead to, with impressive and highly dedicated participants…

"Medical smartwatches - the future of intersectoral patient monitoring?" We addressed this question together with Masimo at this year's seventh Patient Monitoring Roundtable…

For the sixth roundtable of this year, we had the pleasure of discussing a special topic close to our hearts in cooperation with denkwerk GmbH. The INALO project (Intelligent Alarm Optimization) pursues the ambitious goal of alarm prioritization in intensive care units with the help of artificial intelligence in order to minimize the currently prevailing flood of inconsequential alarms and the resulting alarm fatigue…