Case Study: Ruppiner Kliniken achieves continuous, life‑saving cardiac monitoring with Microsoft Azure

Top hospital working with 37 organizations to develop a “digital companion” that could save lives

Ruppiner Kliniken, a leading hospital in Germany, joined a 37-organization consortium to tackle a critical challenge: many cardiovascular problems go undetected because clinicians lack long-term, real‑world data and patients often don’t report symptoms. The goal was to collect continuous, nonintrusive health measurements—ECG, blood pressure and more—so clinicians can detect dangerous changes early, improve outcomes, and extend care beyond hospital walls.

The consortium built digilog, an IoT “digital companion” that uses fitness bands and tiny sensors to stream patient data into Microsoft Azure, where Azure IoT Hub, Azure Machine Learning, and Power BI convert disparate signals into secure, interpretable dashboards, KPIs, and predictive models accessible via mobile app or web portal. With patient-controlled data access, alerts for caregivers, and telemedicine potential, digilog is now in extensive testing and shows promise to save lives, reduce costs, and expand access to care in remote or underdeveloped regions.

Ruppiner Kliniken

Kurt J.G. Schmailzl

Head of the Department for Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Diseases