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On May 4 and 5, project partners from across Germany gathered in Hanover for the annual general assembly of ACRIBiS to discuss achieved milestones, current challenges, and the future potential of digitally enabled cardiovascular care. The aim of the project — funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space as part of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) — is to improve the prediction and prevention of serious cardiovascular events such as hospitalizations and mortality. To achieve this, standardized clinical routine data are combined with biosignal analyses from ECGs using advanced IT methodologies.
During the meeting, Prof. Sven Zenker, project lead and Medical Director of the Office for Medical-Scientific Technology Development and Coordination at University Hospital Bonn, once again emphasized the significance and growing relevance of ACRIBiS’ work. His key takeaway: “We are entering the final stretch.”
The inspiring presentations, discussions, and highly productive workshop highlighted just how essential personal exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration are to the project’s success.
Key topics included:
Major progress achievements, including the successful implementation of a harmonized cardiovascular dataset within routine clinical care (including app-based digital data collection by patients supported by healthcare professionals), the provision of ECG data for AI-driven risk prediction, the development of AI-based analytical models and evaluation concepts, and the establishment of key regulatory and ethical frameworks for cross-site data utilization.
Site-specific experiences related to implementation, patient recruitment, and the standardized, structured medical history collection conducted as part of the ACRIBiS study. These discussions generated valuable insights into both best practices and practical barriers to successful implementation.
The significant potential to build on and sustainably leverage the project’s achievements — particularly in connection with the infrastructures of the Network University Medicine (NUM). In collaboration with NUM-SAR, ACRIBiS is not only utilizing the NUM dashboard for innovative tracking functionalities, but is also contributing newly interoperable medical datasets and novel infrastructure components for near real-time biosignal processing.
This year’s host, Prof. Udo Bavendiek, senior physician at the Department of Cardiology and Angiology at Hannover Medical School, concluded:
“The strong and unwavering motivation and determination of all project teams are truly impressive. The results achieved so far already demonstrate ACRIBiS’ enormous potential to advance IT-supported structures — both for improving clinical workflows and patient care, as well as for strengthening clinical research.”
