Future health systems will interact completely different than before. First, it will be more inclusive, going beyond patients and care professionals reaching out to the everybody. Second, it must be more efficient, effective, usable and tailored to the actual needs of humans.

Two major research areas are working here together, namely HCI and communication technologies, and KIT is actively performing top research in either communities. In HCI, our unique approach is the use of AI to design, re-design and evaluate the interaction between a user, patient and care professional and its devices to make the interfaces more ergonomic and efficient, and to compute more effective presentation formats. Telecommunication aspects are ubiquitous in the health domain: from teleoperation over Internet enabled diagnosis between care professionals and remote diagnosis and treatment of a person to integrating body worn diagnostic and treatment devices via real-time and secured communication. KITs competence in the basic communication technology – as the founder of the German Internet – and its strong research position in teleperception and telemedicine provide an excellent basis for fundamental  research and innovation progress, and is especially strong in evaluating research and innovation outcomes in the Reallabore.