25.03.2026 – CONNECTED HEALTH SUMMIT 2026

Date: 25 March 2026
Location: ICCAS – Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery, Leipzig University
Registration: www.tickets.connected-health-summit.de

This public event is aimed at:

• Clinics, healthcare providers, nursing services, hospital IT and healthcare management
• Companies from medical technology, digital health, telecommunications
• Health insurance providers, industry associations, and key decision-makers
• Experts in regulation, data protection, and security
• Politics, public administration, academia, students, and the interested public

The Future of Connected Medicine in Focus
How can the next step in healthcare succeed – moving from isolated solutions toward reliably connected, secure, and scalable care models? What role will 6G play in the future for hospitals, patients, and medical technology? And which prerequisites must be established today to enable future innovations?

The Connected Health Summit 2026 makes the results of the BMFTR-funded project “6G Health” publicly tangible and brings together key stakeholders from healthcare, industry, telecommunications, health insurance providers, regulation, politics, and research.

Program

Hands-on Demos from “6G Health”
In the morning, we will present the results of the BMFTR-funded project “6G Health” in a live demonstration with hands-on stations. Experience a seamless patient journey – the path a patient takes during treatment, from admission at the hospital through treatment to aftercare at home:

• Admission and initial data acquisition
• Diagnostics and clinical decision support
• Treatment and connected processes in hospital operations
• Discharge and coordinated transition to aftercare
• Monitoring and care at home (e.g., telemonitoring / connected medical devices)

What makes it special? The patient journey is continuous and seamless – in contrast to today’s healthcare delivery, which often breaks down into fragmented processes.

We demonstrate how (6G-capable) connectivity, secure data flows, and interoperable systems can work together – clearly, comprehensibly, and in a practice-oriented way.

Perspectives at the (6G) Connected Health Expert Symposium
In the afternoon, the focus will on contextualization and discussion: What requirements arise for implementation, scaling, and routine operation? The connected medicine of the future will be examined from multiple perspectives:

Medical technology – interoperability, clinical integration, security-by-design, lifecycle
Health insurance providers – evidence, outcomes, cost-effectiveness, reimbursement models
6G / telecommunications – reliability, latency, edge computing, resilient networks, operating models
Medicine / clinics / users – use cases, workflow integration, acceptance, qualification
Regulatory – compliance, data protection, information security, responsibilities
Politics – framework conditions for transfer, standardization, infrastructure, scaling
Research – open questions, living labs/testbeds, evaluation, next innovation steps

Why Should I Participate?
In addition to the unique opportunity to experience innovative project results live and in a tangible way along a realistic process chain, we offer:

Results firsthand – Key insights and demonstrators from “6G Health”
Context instead of buzzwords – What 6G can achieve in healthcare and what is required to make it happen
A focus on scalability – Interoperability, security, evidence, reimbursement, operation
Exchange with stakeholders – Healthcare, MedTech, telecommunications, health insurance providers, regulatory bodies, politics, research
Support for knowledge transfer – Cooperations and follow-up activities

The Connected Health Summit 2026 is the public results event of the BMFTR-funded project “6G Health.” The goal is to make project insights visible, bring perspectives together, and support transfer into applications, standards, and follow-up activities.

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