Sep 03, 2025
Somnolink Hackathon at ZMI Dresden
Joint development and brainstorming
University Medicine Göttingen visits Dresden: Somnolink Hackathon at ZMI Dresden
From August 27 to 29, ZMI will host the hackathon, the work package meeting for WP 3 in the Somnolink project.
Somnolink is a subproject of the nationwide Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) and is characterized by interdisciplinary collaboration between sleep medicine and medical informatics. It is committed to improving the diagnosis, treatment, and adherence to therapy for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) through better availability of health data and AI-based analyses.
Work package 3 deals explicitly with the “early identification of patients with undiagnosed OSA in an inpatient setting.”
The three-day hackathon at ZMI Dresden is designed as an intensive, interdisciplinary face-to-face meeting consisting of two main sections:
The first section consists of a meeting between the participating medical informatics specialists from ZMI and Göttingen University Medical Center. Dr. Miriam Goldammer and Franz Ehrlich acted as hosts in Dresden, visited by their colleagues from Lower Saxony, Prof. Dr. Anne-Christin Hauschild, Miriam Maurer, and Philip Zaschke. In a cross-location dialogue, the IT participants pursued the main goal of further developing the model for OSA identification.
This joint effort was complemented by the participation of sleep medicine specialists from the UKD involved in the project, PD Dr. Moritz Brandt and Dr. Tony Sehr.
The joint workshop focused primarily on further expanding the exchange between sleep medicine specialists and computer scientists, jointly outlining the status of the project, planning the next steps, and discussing the results achieved so far from an interdisciplinary perspective and interpreting them from a medical point of view.
Further information on the Somnolink project can be found here:
Somnolink hackathon at ZMI Dresden