4th Heidelberg Spring Symposium Medical Informatics: Heidelberg University Hospital

4th Heidelberg Spring Symposium Medical Informatics

Medical Information Systems for Innovative Research and Care

May 13, 2026, 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Marsilius-Arkaden at Heidelberg University Hospital, lunch included
(100 participants on-site and live-broadcast via Internet)

Information systems are an important foundation for excellent patient care and research in medicine. Digital medicine can only be successfully implemented if excellent information systems are available. After the very successful Symposium 2025 , we would like to promote scientific exchange in Europe and Germany on this topic and therefore cordially invite you to the 4th Heidelberg Spring Symposium on Medical Informatics. As in the previous year, a prize will be awarded for the best presentation.

Program
11:30 a.m.	Registration
12:00 p.m.	First Session
12:00 p.m.	Welcome
12:10 p.m.	Cosima Stranz et al. (Erlangen): Embedding PROMs in cBioPortal for Molecular Tumor Boards: A Compass for Patient-Centered, Cross-Sector Oncology Care
12:30 p.m.	Lightning Talks
	Anh Vu (Lübeck): Operationalizing a FHIR-Enabled cBioPortal Platform for Molecular Tumor Boards Introduction Nils Krehl et al. (Heidelberg): Identifying Postoperative Adverse Events in Pancreatic Carcinoma Patients Using Routine Clinical Data Marcel Müller et al. (München): AI-Assisted Metadata Normalization for Clinical Research: A Human-in-the-Loop Prototype Marina Walther (Heidelberg): Bridging Medical Guidelines and Patient Context: Neurosymbolic Reasoning over Graph-based Retrieval for Trustworthy Diabetes Self-Management
1:00 p.m.	Keynote Talk: Jens Deerberg-Wittram (Berlin): The role of PROs in the oncology care of the future
1:20 p.m.	Lunch
2:20 p.m.	Second Session
2:20 p.m.	Galina Velikova (Leeds, UK): PROM-Monitoring in breast cancer care - experiences from Leeds
2:35 p.m.	Pavlina Lenga et al. (Heidelberg): Beyond One Time PROMs: High Frequency Single Item Mobile ePROM Tracking of Postoperative Recovery in Spine Surgery—A Prospective Feasibility Study
2:50 p.m.	Lightning Talks
	Elias Grünewald et al. (Berlin): Cloud-Native Real-Time Analytics of Clinical Wearable Data: A FHIR-Aligned Platform Architecture Emily Nischwitz et al. (Heidelberg): Leveraging Real-World Data for Equitable Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening: Insights from the SOLACE Consortium André Sheydin (Köln): Continuous Conformance Monitoring for FHIR-based Data Integration Centers: From One-off Validation to Operational Evidence Markus Graf (Heilbronn): Pixels of Possibility: Opportunities and Threats of Synthetic Biomedical Data
3:30 p.m.	Lars Riedemann (Heidelberg): Leveraging Synthetic Data to Develop Scalable Open-Source Automatic Speech Recognition on Edge Devices
3:45 p.m.	Selection of best contribution & Conclusion
From 4:00 p.m.	Networking

Link to registration

Scientific Committee 2026:

Prof. Dr. Martin Dugas, Heidelberg (Chair)
Prof. Dr. Petra Knaup-Gregori, Heidelberg (Co-Chair)
Prof. Dr. Johanna Apfel-Starke, Hannover
Prof. Dr. Felix Balzer, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Jörg Becker, Münster
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Denecke, Bern
Prof. Dr. Toralf Kirsten, Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Sandro Krieg, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Marschollek, Hannover
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Meder, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Uta Merle, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Christoph Michalski, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Carsten Müller-Tidow, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Fabian Prasser, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Pryss, Würzburg
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Sax, Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Hanna Seidling, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Julian Varghese, Magdeburg
Prof. Dr. Markus Weigand, Heidelberg

Take a look at our previous EVENTS:

3rd Heidelberg Spring Symposium Medical Informatics

2nd Heidelberg Spring Symposium Medical Informatics

1st Heidelberg Spring Symposium Medical Informatics