CAEHR - Starting signal for new research project: care for cardiovascular diseases to be improved

On August 1, 2025, the four-year joint research project CAEHR (CArdiovascular Diseases - Enhancing Healthcare through cross-Sectoral Routine data integration) was launched under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Dagmar Krefting as the Digital Progress Hub Health. It follows on from the first funding phase (2021 - 2025) and is part of the DigiHub initiative with six other projects.

The aim of this initiative is to strengthen regional networking along the patient pathway in order to enable seamless and patient-centered care. A patient's data can be securely networked along this patient pathway from prehabilitation (e.g. wearables for monitoring at home), through inpatient treatment in a hospital and subsequent rehabilitation to aftercare. CAEHR focuses on patients with cardiovascular diseases.

The emergency care use case from the first CAEHR funding phase will be continued and the successfully developed concepts for data exchange will be extended to the partner locations - including the University Medical Center Göttingen. In the case of strokes, the relevant patient data already generated in the ambulance will be transferred directly to the target hospital in order to support emergency physicians in making time-critical treatment decisions. Another focus of the project in the overarching use case of all DigiHubs is the long-term monitoring of patients from prevention (prehabilitation) to rehabilitation and aftercare.

In addition to the Department of Medical Informatics as project coordinator, the Central Emergency Department, the Department of Neurology, the Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, the Institute of General Medicine and the Information Technology Division are other institutions of the University Medical Center Göttingen involved. The City of Göttingen, as the provider of the emergency services, and the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) are also involved at the site.

Further information:

Digital Progress Hub Health: https://www.medizininformatik-initiative.de/en/use-cases-and-projects/digital-hubs-advances-research-and-health-care