Application Center for Automation in Healthcare

Overview

The Application Center for Automation in Healthcare is operated by the Fraunhofer Project Group for Automation in Medicine and Biotechnology of Fraunhofer IPA. The project group was established by the state of Baden-Württemberg and Fraunhofer to develop new ideas for automation in medicine and biotechnology. The Application Center is used to conduct research and development for automation in healthcare applications. It is also used by companies to develop and test new automation applications in their own projects or to train medical staff. Today's demonstrators already show the beneficial use of robotics and other automation technologies to improve healthcare economics and patient outcome. 

The center is located at CUBEX41 at the heart of the University Hospital in Mannheim and pursues the following objectives:

1. Enable access to and cooperation with all medical and biotechnological facilities in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan area for SME and large industries 

2. Establish automation in healthcare by joint research on demonstrators and showcases

3. Facilitate the translation of new technologies to medical applications through strong interaction with medical staff from university hospitals

4. To develop and test needs based solutions and to offer a complete spectrum of services from idea to clinical evaluation

The Application Center for Automation in Healthcare is fueled by several public and private funded projects. E.g. the Application Center receives funding via the BMBF Forschungscampus M²OLIE (http://www.m2olie.de/eng/metas/home).  Digital technologies.