This case study presents the real-world journey of introducing a pharmacist support app across 500 pharmacies, with more than 2,000 pharmacists using it, alongside a companion patient-facing app that reached over 50,000 downloads. Designed to improve pharmacotherapy outcomes and streamline communication between pharmacists and patients, the solution aimed to bridge daily workflow gaps and offer clearer, safer medication guidance.

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This 90-minute workshop teaches participants how to develop and market a digital therapeutic (DTx) from concept to completion. Designed for decision-makers in Digital Health, Medtech, Pharma, and startups, it covers DTx definitions, regulatory frameworks, and reimbursement pathways in Germany, including the DiGA process.

Participants will work in small groups on fictional or real DTx ideas, guided by experts through essential steps such as purpose definition, regulatory strategy, reimbursement planning, data security, and clinical evidence collection. They’ll also learn to design studies demonstrating positive healthcare effects.

The session concludes with group presentations and an open discussion on challenges encountered. Participants will leave with practical tools and resources for their projects.

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As healthcare technology rapidly advances, nurses face challenges in integrating digital tools due to limited training, inconsistent support, and infrastructure issues. These barriers can hinder patient care, turning innovation into a burden.

Recent work at La Source highlights digital literacy as a crucial skill that impacts care quality and workflow efficiency. Simulation-based education offers a solution by providing safe, realistic environments that help nurses build confidence and skills for navigating new technologies.

This presentation will outline the obstacles to technology adoption, gaps in training, and the benefits of simulation strategies, aiming to position digital literacy as a priority that enhances nursing practice.

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Digital health is no longer peripheral to healthcare – it’s how care gets delivered. From patient flow to decision support, the systems we build and use have become the mechanism of modern care itself. But while the pace of digital innovation in healthcare has never been faster, keeping those innovations safe, sustainable, and truly useful remains one of our biggest challenges.

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Masterclass

The overall HealthTech market is one of the fastest-growing sectors globally, driven by technological advancements (especially AI and digital solutions), the burden of chronic diseases, and a shift toward patient-centric and value-based care.

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'How to guide' - planning for digital endpoints and why they are needed

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Remote Care in Action: Lessons from the Nordics and Canada

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Digital by Design: Hospitals that Serve Patients and Society

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Remote Care in Action: Lessons from the Nordics and Canada

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Healthcare is evolving at a pace that often exceeds the capacity of the people delivering it. New technologies, shifting priorities, and constant pressures on services create an overload that slows adoption and drains momentum.

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For a century, cardiovascular care has relied on invasive tests and late-stage interventions. But what if the next century could be defined by something as simple as the human voice? Subtle changes in speech can reveal early signs of heart disease weeks before hospitalization, offering a window for timely intervention.

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Oral dryness, or xerostomia, affects a growing share of the population—patients undergoing oncology treatments, those with autoimmune disorders, diabetes, or chronic medication use. Despite its prevalence and significant impact on quality of life, it remains an underestimated public health issue. Xerostomia not only causes local discomfort but can also impair oral flora balance, increase infection risk, and serve as an early indicator of systemic disease.

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How AI enabled radiology can map incidental findings that could lead to earlier diagnosis

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Healthcare innovation faces steep barriers: regulation, funding, and resistance. H4 observes innovators, clinicians, and patients struggling to implement new solutions. Our analysis advocates genuine alliances between innovators, clinicians, and empowered patients to understand needs. Caregivers also require early innovation training. H4 aims to transform complex innovation into accessible steps, fostering smoother adoption and greater impact through collaboration.

Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide. Despite major advances in medicine and diagnostics, current approaches often detect disease too late and lack predictive precision. Exploris Health is addressing this challenge with Cardio Explorer, a novel Software as Medical Device that integrates advanced biosignal analytics and artificial intelligence to enable earlier detection, improved risk assessment, and more personalized cardiac care.

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Modern healthcare faces a dual challenge: rising demand for chronic care and a global shortage of skilled professionals. Fresenius Medical Care’s Home Digital Ecosystem reimagines how technology can transform the first 90 days of therapy—traditionally a period of high dependency—into a foundation for safe, confident, and autonomous care at home.

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"ChemoBrain" causes significant, under-recognized cognitive impairment in cancer patients. Inspired by personal experience, the Cerebro/BrainBoost digital platform will offer early detection and support for cancer-related cognitive issues through screening, adaptive training, and monitoring. Scalable beyond ChemoBrain to other cognitive vulnerabilities, it champions integrating cognitive health into future oncology care.

Danish National Healthcare IT relies on OSS for full digitalization, transitioning to OSS platforms for digital autonomy and resilience. This "HealthCloud" offers a chance to efficiently reimplement healthcare systems using mature, license-free services. However, challenges include building expert IT teams, establishing local infrastructure, and creating stable government structures for sustained public-private cooperation beyond political cycles.

Rapid EU health and digital regulation generates high strategic uncertainty. This keynote shows how Hybrid AI, specifically SILREAL’s Policy Intelligence AI Agent, transforms fragmented signals into actionable foresight. It delivers early warnings, quantifies regulatory risk, and aids evidence-based decisions. The session provides a practical roadmap for adaptive, data-driven regulatory strategies, enhancing EU health governance and digital infrastructure.

Adaptive neurotech is transforming medicine, restoring human functions and advancing human-AI cognition. CorTec's Brain-Interchange™ platform, the only configurable, fully implantable, wireless, bidirectional ECoG system for next-gen neurotherapies and BCIs in clinical use, offers superior 32-channel ECoG signal quality and low-latency closed-loop processing for real-time sensing/stimulation. Our FDA-approved stroke rehab study uses it for closed-loop cortical stimulation, enhancing neuroplasticity. The platform is positioned for future neuromodulation and communication BCIs, aiming to become an autonomous commercial product redefining human autonomy.

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Many patients unknowingly use medications compromised by heat, transport, and storage degradation—a huge healthcare blind spot leading to waste and treatment failures. Beyond Diagnostics addresses this with real-time, point-of-care tests to verify medication efficacy for patients, clinicians, and caregivers. We provide proof of potency, offering actionable data instead of blind trust. Our initial focus is insulin, critical for over 100 million people. Our universal LUMIQ platform will expand to safeguard other fragile medicines like oncology biologics as they are increasingly used outside clinical settings, introducing a new layer of trust and resilience in global healthcare.

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Breast cancer survival rates are drastically lower in LMICs due to late detection; costly, unsuitable screening methods prevail. N23 Health offers an AI solution for early, accessible breast tumor detection. It empowers community healthcare workers to rapidly assess lumps, giving feedback and referring suspicious cases, while others avoid unnecessary costs. A Kenya pilot aims to scale this solution across LMICs, providing a scalable, sustainable pathway to equitable cancer care by lowering costs and reducing specialist reliance.

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An exploration to take the audience beyond disease prevention, into holistic care and longevity science, and describe how the latest digital tools, AI companions, the power of art & creativity and a new way to deal with personal data, help people to unlock their potential and become epic.

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Today, all corporates leverage startups as part of their innovation processes. Many leverage innovation hubs or accelerator programs to evaluate startups and establish first pilot projects. Despite this structured process, a large percentage of follow-up engagements between corporates and startups do not lead to the desired business impact on both sides. What are the reasons and how can we improve the success rate? What are best practices for value exchange and how can we apply these to new areas like digital health or AI?

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AI, once a domain for deep technical expertise, is now widely accessible, though a thorough understanding remains crucial. This masterclass offers a comprehensive tour of AI, from its historical roots to modern machine learning and advanced AI agents. It's for anyone seeking to demystify AI buzzwords. The class highlights the critical need for quality data before applying AI, empowering you to thoughtfully approach solutions rather than simply "throwing AI" at problems.

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