MedUni Vienna and University of Vienna: AI projects are revolutionizing medicine!

MedUni Vienna and University of Vienna: AI projects are revolutionizing medicine!

On June 4, 2025, the MedUni Vienna and the University of Vienna will announce great news: They are starting two new cluster projects that deal with highly topical topics relating to medical research. The catchphrase is “Artificial Intelligence (AI) meets Medicine”. On the one hand, this 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 international review after the best of 15 submitted applications were selected. Both initiatives start this month and are scheduled to run for three years to promote innovative collaborations and transnational research. meduniwien.ac.at reports that ...

A central project is dedicated to combating vaccination fatigue. Here, AI-based “synthetic patients” are to be developed, which act as virtual models to simulate vaccine-sceptical behavior. The aim is to test new communication strategies and train medical professionals 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 forefront of this project.

Integration of AI in cardiology

The second project, which has the mysterious name AICARD, aims to incorporate artificial intelligence into everyday clinical practice in cardiology. However, this is not without challenges: fragmented data, strict data protection requirements and a lack of transparency are issues that need to be overcome.

The team is developing a platform with a secure, multimodal data warehouse and an interface for intuitive visual data analysis. In addition, explainable AI models should help predict cardiac events. The aim is to increase trust in AI, which ultimately serves to improve clinical decisions and optimize patient outcomes. Christian Hengstenberg, Noemi Pavo, Manuel Mayr, Ronny Schweitzer from MedUni Vienna as well as Torsten Moeller and Laura Koesten from the University of Vienna are leading this exciting project.

The great potential of AI in healthcare

Artificial intelligence is not only showing itself as a game changer in these new projects, but also offers enormous potential in many areas of healthcare. In the spirit of digital health applications such as Mika, an app that provides cancer patients with comprehensive information, or Diafyt, which is cleverly connected to a smart insulin pen, it is clear that AI is also becoming increasingly important in therapy and care. Fraunhofer ISI explains that...

According to a PwC study, AI could boost global GDP by a whopping $15.7 trillion by 2030. Growth is expected to be particularly intense in the healthcare sector. The savings potential is considerable if you take a closer look at the possibilities of early detection, for example in the case of obesity or dementia. Up to eight billion euros could be saved here in the early detection of dementia alone. PwC reports that ...

Developments in the field of artificial intelligence offer hope for an exciting future in healthcare. From reducing vaccine fatigue to integrating AI into cardiology, it will be exciting to see how these new approaches prove themselves in practice. And perhaps in the not too distant future we will see the fruits of these innovative research efforts in our clinics.