AI technologies for a digital hospital
The founding of CAIM is an integral part of the Insel Gruppe’s digitalization strategy. Based on a new digital hospital information and control system (KISS), the Insel Gruppe plans comprehensive digitilization in all areas of hospital activities, including research, diagnosis, patient management, therapy and finance by 2023. CAIM will leverage the substantial, high-quality clinical data volume of the new system to develop clinically relevant machine learning tools that support physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals in their daily clinical decisions. Data protection is a top priority: the new system meets the highest standards for processing sensitive health data.
Uwe E. Jocham, president of the Insel Gruppe: "The Insel Gruppe's hospitals will be digital in the future. The new main building of the Inselspital, which will be completed in 2023, will be ready for the world of the digital hospital. CAIM will help to make the large amounts of data that will be generated usable for research and development of new instruments".
Interdisciplinary and open to industry partners
CAIM will make AI expertise available to industry in various ways: it will share the latest research developments in AI technology, graduates of the CAIM study programmes will be a highly qualified new workforce, and CAIM will directly support industry cooperation - from pilot projects to large-scale multi-partner projects.
Industrial collaborations within CAIM are well suited for support by the Swiss innovation promotion programme "Innosuisse" to develop suitable solutions for industrial partners. The members of CAIM have a notable reputation for industry collaborations and successful establishment of start-ups. As members of CAIM, researchers are given access to structured data, computing capacity and project financing as well as support to launch products on the market: "sitem-insel as an innovation hub helps to transfer results from AI research into products and new therapies swiftly. We create a dynamic environment that encourages all teams to develop trustworthy AI-driven medical technology solutions based on scientific findings," says Simon Rothen, CEO of sitem-insel.
Michael Kaess, director of the Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at UPD, adds: "Artificial intelligence methods play an important role now and for the future of translational research at UPD, for example in the processing and analysis of large amounts of data to predict the course of diseases or associated risks. These technological possibilities will increasingly support the diagnostics and therapy of psychiatric patients at UPD". In anticipation of these developments, the UPD has established a "Digital Board". "The close, interdisciplinary cooperation within CAIM enables the UPD to benefit from the united expertise, whilst our experts in cognition and emotion, can make a significant contribution to the topic of "artificial intelligence", says Kaess.