Building AI In-House at Europe’s Largest Hospital
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Most hospitals buy their AI. Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Europe’s largest academic medical center and ranked eighth in the world by Newsweek, is developing its own. Charité has consolidated its scattered AI projects into a single Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and switched on Clé, an in-house platform that runs across research, teaching, patient care, and administration. Its success, says Chief Executive Officer Prof. Dr. Heyo Kroemer, will depend on whether it improves care, supports staff, and makes innovation usable in everyday work. In this episode, Chip and Kroemer talk about what Charité stands to gain or lose by taking this path, and what it means to own an AI platform rather than license one.