Building AI In-House at Europe’s Largest Hospital
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
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The speaker reports that the institute created a secure platform with development interfaces and evaluation support, establishing accountability for AI direction and enabling institution-wide decisions on shared capabilities and applications through a published AI strategy that consulted over one hundred internal bodies.
The speaker reports that the hospital chose a step-by-step AI implementation approach using interchangeable models to maintain connection with current advanced systems while assessing gaps between current capabilities and market availability.
The speaker reports that their institution developed the Clay platform in-house with the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and IT team from the German Heart Center, running on the hospital's own servers to maintain control over data usage, model deployment, and clinical process integration, with organization-wide access beginning after testing and approvals.
Most hospitals buy their AI. Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Europe’s largest academic medical center and ranked eighth in the world by Newsweek, is developing its own. Charité has consolidated its scattered AI projects into a single Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and switched on Clé, an in-house platform that runs across research, teaching, patient care, and administration. Its success, says Chief Executive Officer Prof. Dr. Heyo Kroemer, will depend on whether it improves care, supports staff, and makes innovation usable in everyday work. In this episode, Chip and Kroemer talk about what Charité stands to gain or lose by taking this path, and what it means to own an AI platform rather than license one. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
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