MedUni Vienna and University of Vienna: AI projects revolutionize medicine!

MedUni Vienna and University of Vienna: AI projects revolutionize medicine!

On June 4, 2025, the MedUni Vienna and the University of Vienna announce great news: they start two new cluster projects that deal with highly topical issues about medical research. The keyword is "Artificial Intelligence (AI) meets Medicine". On the one hand, it is about the ambitious reduction of vaccination fatigue and on the other hand about the clinical integration of artificial intelligence in cardiology. These projects bear the seal of the international assessment after the best of 15 applications submitted have been selected. The starting signal for both initiatives is the current month and they are designed for three years to promote innovative cooperation and transnational research. [mediUniwien.ac.at reports that ...] (https://www.meduniwien.at/web/ueber-uns/2025/news-im-juni-2025/neue-clusterprojekt-mit-der-universitaet-wien

A central project is dedicated to combating vaccination tiredness. Here AI-based “synthetic patients” are to be developed, which simulate the vaccination-skeptical behavior as virtual models. The aim is to test new communication strategies and to train medical specialists accordingly. Whether these methods work is checked by scientific studies. Ursula Wiedermann-Schmidt from MedUni Vienna and Robert Böhm from the University of Vienna are at the head of this project.

Integration of AI in cardiology

The second project that bears the mysterious name Aicard aims to integrate artificial intelligence into the everyday clinical practice of cardiology. However, this is not without challenges: the fragmented data, strict data protection requirements and lack of transparency are topics that need to be mastered.

The team develops a platform with a safe, multimodal data warehouse and an interface for intuitive visual data analysis. In addition, explainable AI models should contribute to the prediction of cardiological events. This is intended to strengthen trust in AI, which ultimately also serves to improve clinical decisions and optimize the patient results. Christian Hengstenberg, Noemi Pavo, Manuel Mayr, Ronny Schweitzer from MedUni Vienna as well as Torsten Moeller and Laura Koesten from the University of Vienna lead this exciting project.

The great potential of AI in healthcare

artificial intelligence not only shows itself in these new projects as a gamechanger, but also offers enormous potential in many areas of healthcare. In the sense of digital health treatments such as Mika, an app that is at hand from cancer: inside with comprehensive information, or Diafyt, which is connected to a smart insulin pen, it can be seen that AI is also becoming increasingly important in therapy and care. Fraunhofer ISI explains that ...

According to a PWC study, KI could boost the global GDP by 20.7 trillion US dollars by 2030. Growth in the health sector is expected particularly intensively. The savings potential are considerable if you take a closer look at the possibilities of early detection, such as obesity or dementia. Here you could save up to eight billion euros in the early detection of dementia alone. PwC reports that ...

Developments in the field of artificial intelligence give hope for an exciting future in healthcare. From the reduction of vaccination tiredness to the integration of AI into cardiology - it will remain exciting how these new approaches prove themselves in practice. And maybe we will see the fruits of this innovative research in our clinics in not too distant time.