Artificial intelligence is changing healthcare. This promises better diagnostics and fewer errors and all in less time. While some associate AI with a frightening dystopian future, many doctors see it as a source of support.

To help them care for their patients, doctors program applications and provide data to the AI. At the Charité Hospital in Berlin, Professor Surjo Soekadar is investigating how neurotechnology could help paralyzed patients in their daily lives, for example through assistance systems controlled by their thoughts.

This could give hope to people like Guido Schule and Anne Nitzer. Nitzer had a stroke shortly after the birth of her second child and has since been unable to move or speak, although she is fully conscious.

At Vienna General Hospital (AKH), Professor Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth has already developed an AI-based diagnostic tool that has been approved for use. Today, she studies how AI could improve both the diagnosis and treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). This chronic eye disease can cause vision loss, even with treatment. This is a fate Oskar Zlamala could face. But since the retiree began his treatment at the AKH in Vienna, he hopes to be able to stop the progression of his disease.

IT experts and doctors are also working together to help Essen University Hospital go digital. Dr. Felix Nensa and Professor Arzu Oezcelik are improving the care of transplant patients using artificial intelligence. AI can calculate the size of organs, such as the liver, for example, much more precisely and faster than humans – and thus improve the results and safety of the procedure.

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