Digital Health
The digital health city Berlin is the place where innovative startups meet excellent research and top standard care.
more than 150
Startups
approx. 40
Scientific institutions
11
Digital health accelerators and incubators
As Europe’s most attractive area for life science & healthcare, and an important hub of the IT industry with a growing number of IT companies, Berlin is the ideal playing field for digital health innovations. The comprehensive portfolio of companies, research institutes, clinics, care providers, network and government agencies, provides the ideal condition for the development, evaluation and market entry of digital solutions for health & care.
A top location for digital health research
Digital therapeutics, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, image and data analysis, or surgical navigation – a multitude or research institutes work on progressing towards a truly personalised and innovative medicine in the capital region.
- Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD)
- Berlin Institute of Health (BIH)
- Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Center for biomedical image and information processing (CBMI) at HTW Berlin
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
- Einstein Center Digital Future
- Hasso-Plattner-Institut (HPI)
- HTW University of Applied Science
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)
- TU Berlin
- Several Fraunhofer Institutes such as FOKUS, HHI and IZM, including the joint Leistungszentrum Digitale Vernetzung (Digital Networking Performance Center)
- Center for Artificial Intelligence - Public Health Research RKI (in German)
- Zuse Institute Berlin
The place to be for startups
With their innovative spirit and digital expertise, startups deliver fresh solutions for digital transformation in the healthcare industry. The German capital region is home to over one hundred digital health startups, and the numbers are growing each year. They develop mobile apps and wearables to empower patients suffering from chronic diseases and to assist in their self-management. State-of-the-art technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence, and big data accelerate new applications.
The following startups and scaleups are based in Berlin:
Home to many incubators, accelerators, networks
The regional startup ecosystem is highly self-organized and offers young pioneers a broad range of events such as meet-ups, bar camps, seed camps and hackathons. Furthermore, increasing numbers of global players and companies based in Berlin are seeking to forge contacts with startups to invent new digital products and methods for the healthcare market. Being the German capital, Berlin also hosts a number of business associations in the field of Health IT.
More than 95 incubators/accelerators and start-up centers, among others in the field of digital health, as well as innovators and investors from all over the world come to Berlin because the future of health and care is being shaped here.
- Bayer G4A
- Berlin Healthcare Hub by Pfizer
- BIH Digital Health Accelerator
- Creative Destruction Labs - Berlin
- EIT Digital
- K.I.E.Z.
- Merantix
- Rox Health
- Science&Startups for Future
- Startup Incubator Berlin SIB
- Techcode
- Telekom hub:raum
- VentureBlick
- Vision Health Pioneers
Networks and associations
- TEF-Health EU-consortium
- Bundesverband Gesundheits-IT – bvitg e. V.
- SIBB – ICT & Digital Business Association Berlin
- Spitzenverband Digitale Gesundheitsversorgung e. V. (German Digital Health Association)
- TMF – Technologie- und Methodenplattform für die vernetzte medizinische Forschung e.V.
(Technology and Methods Platform for Networked Medical Research)
Enter the Berlin digital health ecosystem at one of the multitude events, such as the BIONNALE, DMEA – Connecting Digital Health or World Health Summit.
