Live Blog: DigiHealthDay-2025 from European Campus Rottal-Inn, Pfarrkirchen

HealthTechAsia brings you live coverage of DigiHealthDayS 2025 on Thursday, 13 November 2025 – proud to serve as a media sponsor.

Hosted by the European Campus Rottal-Inn (ECRI), the international campus of the Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT), DigiHealthDayS has become a globally recognised forum for advancing education, research, innovation, and collaboration in digital health. The theme for 2025 is “Global Digital Health – today, tomorrow, and beyond,” reflecting the event’s commitment to exploring how emerging technologies are reshaping healthcare across borders.

Panel: Accelerating Interoperability Competence through Innovation

Hosted by Prof. Anne Moen (University of Oslo, Norway) and Simon Lewerence (ISCTE, Portugal), the panel featured:

– Dr. Outi Ahonen (Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland)
– Dr. Lars Lindsköld (EFMI, Sweden)
– Prof. Ricardo Correia (University of Porto, Portugal)
– Catherine Chronaki (HL7 Foundation, Belgium)

Key insights

Prof. Ricardo Correia painted a stark picture of fragmentation: “Average hospitals in Portugal have more than 25 clinical databases—those are just the ones IT knows about.” His message was clear: data must be separated from software. “The software dies after 10 years. Interoperability gives us access to data—and that’s the part that matters.”

He also called out startup culture: “They want to conquer the world but don’t know how their product survives inside a complex ecosystem.” And he urged students to support their professors: “The way you’re learning—AI—is strange to them.”

Dr. Outi Ahonen spotlighted microlearning through XiA courses, offering a scalable model for upskilling health professionals.

Dr. Lars Lindsköld offered a vivid metaphor: “We live in our verticals, safe in our silos. Now the horizontal part is coming—digitalisation—and it pulls up trees.”

Catherine Chronaki called the European Digital Health Space (EDHS) a “monumental opportunity.” Her vision: “We want to give you your data back—in a form you can use to create innovation.” She described combining lab data with wearables to improve her own performance as a human. “Every generation reinvents standards,” she said. “This is a grassroots initiative to help Europe catch up.”

Keynote: AI Operating Systems for Agentic Automation in Medicine

Bart de Witte took the stage to highlight a quiet revolution already underway: decentralisation is not a future concept—it’s happening now, and it’s poised to empower healthcare in unprecedented ways.

Tracing the movement back to CERN, Bart described how open platforms emerged from a culture of decentralised collaboration. He recalled Meta’s release of LLaMA, and how within two weeks, the community had built a desktop version. “Georgui started a movement,” he said.

He introduced the Tiny Recursive Model TRM, a 7M-parameter model from Samsung using recursive reasoning that outperforms DeepSeek and Gemini 2.5 Pro in agentic tasks. But the real breakthrough came just two days ago: a model trained in Paris with only 300M parameters, using synthetic data, and requiring 50x less training time than larger models. “It’s competitive,” Bart said. “And it’s smaller than a PDF. It runs on your phone.”

“We’re one year away from living room GPUs,” he added. “This is a blessing for healthcare—especially in underserved areas. It protects privacy and gives users control.”

He closed with a call to action: “In the Trump era, it’s too dangerous not to act. We are Europeans—we must prioritise data privacy.”

Opening Remarks: A day of vision, urgency, and resilience

The day began with opening statements from Prof. Rajendra Pratap Gupta (Founder, Health Parliament, India) and Dr. Lars Lindsköld (President, EFMI, Sweden).

Prof. Gupta acknowledged the absence of Prof. Dr. Georgi Chaltikyan, who was unable to attend due to an accident. Despite this, his influence was felt: “Look at what a visionary like Georgi does. An institutional event has become a global event. He helped set up the system even though he is unwell.”

Prof. Gupta reflected on the evolution of digital health through three phases: first dismissed as a gimmick, then criticised for being too slow, and now accelerating rapidly. “You are lucky to be in this tumultuous time,” he said. “Mobility, networking, and adventure will define you as professionals.”

Dr. Lindsköld emphasised the need for thoughtful digitalisation: “We are professionals trained to fix things. The world says we should fix differently now—but I don’t believe much in doing this without care.”