DIGITAL MEETS HEALTH MAGAZINE

By Kjell Ohm & Wolf Storde, founders of Befundly At some point during medical school, you sit down with a patient and their test results for the first time. You explain what "signal elevations" mean, why "no evidence of a space-occupying lesion" is actually good news. The patient nods and then asks: "Why isn't that written down anywhere?" Good question. One to which we still don't have a satisfactory answer. Medical reports are among the most important documents in healthcare

By Bastian Hollmann, CEO/Managing Director DocToRead Every day, patients in Germany receive medical letters, findings, discharge summaries, or radiological reports. For doctors and medical professionals, these documents are an important means of communication. For many patients, however, they are often difficult to understand. Terms like "inconspicuous intracranial mass," "degenerative changes," or "multifactorial etiology" are part of everyday medical practice. However, they

In the healthcare sector, digital sovereignty is far more than merely a technical concept—it is a fundamental prerequisite for trust and, by extension, for effective, modern patient care. For patients, it signifies, above all, the assurance that their sensitive health data is protected, processed in a transparent and traceable manner, and utilized meaningfully for their treatment.

Healthcare is facing one of the most profound transformations of our time—and artificial intelligence (AI) plays a pivotal role in this shift.

In Germany, there are just under 100,000 outpatient medical and psychotherapy practices. Together, they handle around 600 million patient cases annually. Added to this are approximately 70,000 practices for therapeutic services—including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and podiatry. This constitutes the largest segment of the German healthcare system. Yet, it remains the blind spot of the HealthTech debate.

The critical decisions for patients are made in private specialist practices—yet technological evolution is reaching this setting far too slowly. While university hospitals discuss high-end AI, outpatient care often remains mired in outdated structures. As both a physician and an entrepreneur, I view it as my mission to actively drive these innovations forward and bring diagnostic depth directly to the point of care—specifically, primary diagnostics.

Nothing had happened for three months. A public health insurance provider had digitized its medical aids division. The concept was ready to go—technically sound, developed with a consulting firm that had done a thorough job. The software was up and running; IT had completed the technical rollout. On paper: everything was ready—HealthTech

The healthcare sector is facing one of the most exciting—but also most challenging—phases of innovation in recent decades. Artificial intelligence is transforming diagnostics, documentation, treatment, nursing care, hospital processes, and research. Startups are developing solutions that can ease the workload on doctors, support nursing staff, provide better care for patients, and make processes more efficient.