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Building AI-ready hospitals for real-time care

Explore how centralized data platforms can save time and improve the quality of patient care

June 29 2026Dr. Uwe Heckert

Enabling AI-readiness in everyday clinical practice

Healthcare systems are facing immense pressure to provide secure, reliable, and real-time access to information. In the process of delivering this, clinicians and care teams often lose valuable time searching for reports, images, and patient data. T-Systems and synedra address this challenge by creating a unified digital foundation that eliminates data silos and enables healthcare providers to leverage cloud, AI, and other innovations effectively.

Eliminating data silos and optimizing workflows

Many hospitals continue to grapple with paper-based records, inaccessible reports, disconnected systems, and information scattered across multiple platforms. For instance, at the University Medical Center Freiburg, valuable clinical time was often spent searching for reports and patient information—time that could have been spent more effectively on providing patient care—until they implemented synedra’s Health Content Management (HCM) platform. 

T-Systems and synedra bring together deep healthcare expertise and technology excellence to create a seamless unified foundation for modern care—connecting data, simplifying workflows, and enabling faster, intuitive, and more informed clinical decision-making.

Stefan Andreatta, Founder, synedra information technologies GmbH

Our platform is the single solution for all clinical data—vendor-neutral, interoperable, and proven in practice for many years.

 Stefan Andreatta, Founder, synedra information technologies GmbH

Cloud: The strategic foundation for security, scalability, and innovation

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T-Systems strengthens the HCM application with advanced cloud and security architectures, creating a foundation for reliable, future-ready healthcare operations. In the future, as the synedra HCM evolves, it will operate in a highly available, scalable environment designed to meet stringent data protection and compliance requirements, supporting individual hospitals as well as large healthcare networks. 

A key differentiator of this partnership is flexibility. T-Systems can operate synedra solutions in fully sovereign environments and across national borders, enabling healthcare organizations to choose deployment models that align with their regulatory, operational, and data governance needs. As Europe's only full-service ICT provider, T-Systems delivers end-to-end sovereign solutions from a single source, simplifying technology management while maintaining compliance.

The joint offering is particularly well suited to healthcare providers across the DACH region (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland), where requirements around data sovereignty, scalability, local expertise, and regional proximity are especially critical.

For healthcare organizations, the benefits extend beyond infrastructure modernization. The combined strengths of synedra's healthcare-focused platform and T-Systems' cloud capabilities help lower IT costs, reduce administrative overhead, and support continuous technological advancements, without the disruption and expense of large-scale migration projects.

Gottfried Ludewig, head of the global T-Systems health division

Our goal is to bring innovation into healthcare delivery quickly and securely. synedra provides a best-in-class application, while we provide reliable and future-ready operations.

Gottfried Ludewig, Head of Health and Public Sector, Deutsche Telekom

Reclaiming time for patient care

Seamless access to complete, up-to-date data enables clinicians to make informed decisions more quickly and confidently. With this joint solution, laboratory results are automatically integrated into the system in a structured format, radiology images are available remotely, and specialist reports from external providers are integrated without manual intervention. As a result, tasks that once required clinicians and nurses to spend hours searching for patient information are now streamlined, with all relevant data accessible from a single point of care. This centralized approach results in greater efficiency, improved care quality, shorter clinical workflows, and a reduced risk of errors.

Building the path to AI-readiness for modern healthcare

Hospitals are increasingly preparing to adopt AI-powered applications. However, their effectiveness is fundamentally tied to the availability of consistent, well-structured data.

synedra HCM establishes this critical groundwork by standardizing, refining, and connecting data across disparate systems. This ensures that AI models operate more precisely and securely in critical areas, such as medical imaging, diagnostics, and risk prediction.

Ludewig emphasizes: We make hospitals AI-ready—not in theory, but in real-world healthcare delivery.

Leading hospitals into the digital future 

T-Systems and synedra's combined strengths ensure that digitalization translates into real, measurable impact for hospitals, healthcare professionals, and patients alike.

When the University Medical Center Freiburg set out to establish a centralized data management platform, it needed a partner capable not only of implementing the technologies but also enabling long-term digital transformation with confidence. With support from synedra and T-Systems, the hospital is now realizing the tangible benefits of digital transformation and has already begun deploying its first AI-driven applications.

Ultimately, when the right information is available at the right moment and in the right context, the true beneficiary is not just the system itself, but the people who rely on it every day.

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Dr. Uwe Heckert, Chief Executive Officer – Detecon

Dr. Uwe Heckert

Chief Executive Officer Detecon

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