New Cloud platform Medi: CUS strengthens Baden-Württemberg's health location

Von Alexander Schneider

The state government of Baden-Württemberg decided in a meeting on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, the establishment of a new cloud platform for health data called Medi: CUS. The platform is intended to improve the medical care of people, simplify processes in hospitals and strengthen the Baden-Württemberg health location. Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann emphasized the importance of using data in medical progress and the creation of exchange opportunities to enable better diagnoses and individually adapted therapies.

The new health cloud enables the quick and safe exchange of research and supply data between top medicine and hospitals throughout Baden-Württemberg. This should help to ensure that research results get into medical care faster and benefit the patient. Furthermore, Digitization Minister Thomas Strobl emphasized that the platform should simplify cooperation in the healthcare system and to improve the data -based health care of the future.

By introducing medi: CUS, expensive and annoying double examinations should also be avoided, since patient data should be available where they are needed. In addition, the recording of medical findings and medical stories, which so far used many resources from the medical staff, is to be made more efficient by using the health cloud.

In addition, the state government hopes that increased cooperation with the researchers, pharmaceutical and medical technology industry in order to accelerate innovations in the health sector. This should not only benefit the patient, but also the domestic health industry.

Overall, the Medi: CUS project was launched as part of the “Baden-Württemberg Health location” and is to be promoted with a funding of 24.2 million euros. The introduction of the Health Cloud Medi: CUS thus marks an important step for the further development of digital and individualized health care in Baden-Württemberg.