Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA
Digital healthcare
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Expertise
The competitive companies in the industry include those that structure their organizational and process performance in such a way that maximum market flexibility is achieved at optimal quality, reduced throughput times and minimal cost. For this to succeed, their optimization activities are focused not only on system automation, but also on system interlinking, production and layout design, job control and the use of IT.
Our research questions
- How can efficient automation solutions for precision medicine be implemented and evaluated?
- What will doctors’ “tools” look like in the future?
- How can intelligent AI systems/methods be deployed and implemented in medicine?
- How can processes in a digital hospital be designed and implemented more efficiently?
- How do systems, instruments and sensors for digital medicine need to be designed (or redesigned)?
Services
- Digitalization/technology and production strategies
- Analysis of potential for digitalization
- Development and implementation of business models and product/service innovations
- Assessment of cost-effectiveness of projects and technologies
- Data-driven optimization of organizational processes and structures
- Support for business transformations and change management
- Development of integrated automation solutions for diagnostic and therapeutic applications
- Development of systems, robots, smart instruments and sensor solutions for clinical/medicinal use
- Evaluation of technical solutions and transfer into clinical practice
- Knowledge transfer, network and access to the hospital for SMEs in medical engineering
- Digital healthcare
- Lean management
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