Prof. Dr. Sascha Köpke participated in the kick-off meeting of the EU-funded project ERASMUS + "Digital & Innovation Skills Helix in Health" (DISH) on 18/01/2019 in Aabenraa / Denmark.

Prof. Dr. Jost Steinhäuser was invited to be guest speaker of the parliamentary evening of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians Schleswig-Holstein in December 2018.

Prof. Dr. Ralf Möller gave a lecture at the conference "Digital Society Conference" in Berlin with the theme "The Reality in AI".

Marcel Gehrke presented the papers "Answering Multiple Conjunctive Queries with the Lifted Dynamic Junction Tree Algorithm" and "Preventing Unnecessary Groundings in the Lifted Dynamic Junction Tree Algorithm" at the 31st Australasian Joint Conference.

Jan Lindenau (SPD), Mayor of the city of Lübeck since 2017, visited the COPICOH to read up on digital health.

As part of his 14-day visit to Lübeck, the Hamburg´s Archbishop Dr. Ing. Stefan Heße also visits COPICOH and informed himself about the hospital room of the future.

The paper "Efficient Enriching of Synthesized Relational Patient Data with Time Series Data" (Simon Schiff, Marcel Gehrke, and Ralf Möller) was presented at the Healthcare Interoperability and Pervasive Intelligent System Workshop.

In the BMBF project ACTIVATE, the first prototype of the innovative ball-shaped interactive device BIRDY was created.

On 11 and 23 October, wound care experts were invited to Lübeck and Kiel for an expert discussion.

Prof. Dr. Ralf Möller gave a lecture at the symposium Brain_Work_Day: Pflege 4.0. on the topic "Rational decision-making using Big Data - How much data for which purpose?" in Frankfurt / Main.

The production of the video clips for the rehab app in the project ParkProTrain has started. The COPICOH film team was equipped in terms of personnel and film technology, and the HealthLab was rebuilt as a film studio.

Digitization is one of the biggest changes for the economy and society. A representative survey by market researcher civey commissioned by Cisco shows how far digitization already permeating people's everyday lives today is.