Digital Health Award 2023 for patient management platform

Berlin. The Leipzig-based company vital.services GmbH has won the Digital Health Award 2023 sponsored by Novartis with its Ecosystem GerontoNet . At the award ceremony on Thursday evening, Florian Mei&l;ner, Managing Director of vital.services GmbH, described GerontoNet as a modular system that can build on existing infrastructures in the healthcare network and supplements the electronic patient file.

GerontoNet can be used, among other things, for regional networking of medical services and has all the necessary information about patients. According to the information provided, both patients and medical professionals are actively involved in the treatment process. Patients and doctors can access the system via the internet.

The focus is on the patient

The jury particularly liked the fact that GerontoNet is a platform that manages information between healthcare providers and patients. „The special thing about it was that this idea was developed out of need. A demand-oriented patient management platform“, said jury member Professor Dr Jochen Klucken.

Second place went to cureVision, a fully automated 3D scanning system for wound analysis. The product promises precise wound analysis at the touch of a button. Thanks to telemedical networking with experts, the expertise should also be available where it is needed, explained Kerstin von Diemar, Managing Director of cureVision.

Therapy on the television

Reach with digital access to health solutions for senior citizens won the audience award and took third place. Reach is a device that transforms any standard TV into an easy-to-use „senior hub“ to improve the quality of life of seniors, said founding member Teo Ortega. Not only could video calls be made via the television, but therapies, exercises and reminders to take tablets would also be possible.

App for the sexual education of children

Novartis awarded the special prize to the young team from Knowbody with an app for sexual education from the sixth grade onwards. The app contains interactive learning units and is intended to contribute to the prevention of sexualised violence, unplanned pregnancies and discrimination, explained Vanessa Meyer and Carolin Strehmel from the management team. The learning units are based on the guidelines of the countries, the World Health Organisation and the Federal Centre for Health Education.

The Digital Health Award was presented by Novartis for the sixth time, this year in Berlin. A total of 80 applications were submitted, focussing on widespread disease, digital health literacy and remote monitoring. The prize money totalled 60,000 euros, of which 25,000 euros went to the first-place winner, 15,000 euros to the runner-up and 10,000 euros each to the third-place winner and the special prize winner.

Article of the "ÄrzteZeitung" from 24.03.2023