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Digital Innovation for Better Health

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Digital Innovation for Better Health

Digital Health Partnership Workshop 2024, Credits: HPI

Key Facts

Focus Area

Science + Education

Active since

2017 – HPI Digital Health Cluster 
2018 – Data4Life 
2019 – Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai

News

1 September 2025

Dr. Ben Illigens joins as CEO of Data4Life

The Hasso Plattner Foundation has appointed Dr. Ben Illigens as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Data4Life. He succeeds Christian Weiss, who has shaped the development phase of Data4Life since 2017 and will continue to advise the organization in a consulting role.

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The Future of Digital Health

The world is undergoing a rapid digital transformation, one that is also affecting the healthcare sector. Innovative technologies are reshaping how health care is delivered. They lead to novel solutions that facilitate prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. That is why at the Hasso Plattner Foundation we support several initiatives in digital health research, including the Digital Health Cluster at HPI, the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai (HPI·MS), and Data4Life.

Testimonials

  • “HPI provides an excellent environment for my research. New developments in artificial intelligence and digital medicine will revolutionize the healthcare sector. The opportunity to scientifically accompany this process through the Humboldt Professorship at HPI is a powerful motivator for me.”

    Prof. Dr. Ariel Dora Stern

    Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, Head of Digital Health, Economics, and Policy  
    HPI Digital Health Cluster 

  • “Our work is most rewarding when it improves people’s health and well-being – individually or at a societal level.”

    Dr. Esther-Maria Antão

    Partnership Lead
    ​HPI Digital Health Cluster

  • “Through my research, I aim to deepen our understanding of digital technologies, particularly in the context of new healthcare models, though not limited to them.”

    Linea Schmidt

    PhD student at the “Digital Health, Economics, and Policy” Chair of Prof. Ariel Dora Stern
    HPI Digital Health Cluster  

Linking Research – Improving Health

With its broad range and academic activities, the Digital Health Cluster at HPI aims to play a central role in digital health research in Germany and Europe. HPI·MS conducts data-driven research at one of the world’s largest hospital networks in New York City, while Data4Life develops digital and secure solutions for working with health data to enable scientific advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. 

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Together, our digital health projects combine their expertise to conduct interdisciplinary research with a patient-centered and data-driven approach. The goal is to apply and continuously improve digital technologies, from individual treatments to the global healthcare sector.

The HPI Digital Health Cluster brings together scientists and experts from medicine and IT for research and teaching at the HPI. The interdisciplinary cluster enables the application of patient-centered and data-driven research methods. The goal is to advance digital technologies in medicine and the healthcare sector.

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  • Prof. Wieler and Prof. Stern, HPI Digital Health 2025, Photography by Reinhardt und Sommer

The HPI·MS is part of the Mount Sinai Health System, New York City’s top ranked hospital. Based on the progressive collection of medical data and a unique data pool, HPI·MS plays a pioneering role in big data research in the healthcare sector.

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As a nonprofit organization, the mission of Data4Life is to make health data available for research – comprehensively, digitally, and securely. By collaborating with leading healthcare institutions and medical experts, the goal is to digitize health research. Data protection and data security are always a top priority.

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Milestones

We focus our resources on long-term projects where we believe that we can make a difference. Our aim is to ensure that our philanthropic activities have a lasting positive impact on the people and organizations we work with. This requires time, perseverance, and an entrepreneurial mindset.

Discover some examples here:

More Projects in Science + Education

As part of this focus area, we support additional initiatives and partnerships, including:

Past Projects

Under this focus area, we supported several projects in the past, including:

KIT Foundation

In 2022, the Hasso Plattner Foundation made a one-time donation to support the charitable activities of the KIT Foundation. The donation focused on activities that strengthen the link between computer science and medical technology.

Contact

Dr. Moritz Matthey

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