Innovation Centre for Digital Medicine has been opened at the Information Processing Centre – National Research Institute (OPI-PIB). The new centre’s main aim is to support the integration of research teams and thus strengthen the development of healthcare in Poland with innovative digital technologies.

The Innovation Centre for Digital Medicine will connect the scientific and medical communities and actively contribute to the country’s digital transformation. The Centre’s experts, together with its partners, will develop digital medicine and exploit the potential of artificial intelligence in the medical sector, which will contribute, among other things, to accelerating patient diagnosis and implementing appropriate therapies. The new unit was commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Science.

‘Our aim is to integrate the scientific and medical communities to jointly develop digital medicine and exploit the potential of artificial intelligence in the medical sector’, said Dr Jarosław Protasiewicz, director of the OPI-PIB. ‘We want to support research teams effectively, and we have the tools to do so. The OPI has knowledge of practically every Polish scientist, their projects and research equipment. Our team of experts also has extensive experience in the application of artificial intelligence in medicine’, added the head of OPI-PIB.

The new unit will carry out research programmes that focus on the verification of new technologies and procedures. Key areas of activity include diagnostic support, personalised medicine, standardisation of diagnostic procedures, structural reporting and the development of deep language models.

According to Piotr Sobecki, head of the Innovation Centre for Digital Medicine, the Centre is committed to the cooperation of Polish research teams, so we encourage all scientists to join the Partnership for Technological Innovation in Healthcare.

Adrian Andrzejewski