Health begins with understanding
edha accompanies you in the digital health world - comprehensibly and at eye level.
- No pressure.
- No technical jargon.
- But knowledge that grows - like you.
“Where others see the crack, we grow into it.“
edha - a grassroots initiative for digital health literacy.“
Understanding digital health
Digitalization is changing our healthcare system.
- It brings new tools, concepts, opportunities and many question marks.
- It often remains unclear: What does this really do for me? What does it mean for my life, for my care?
edha gives you orientation - and lets knowledge grow.
- We explain the world of digital health at your own pace:
- What is a digital health tool - and how does it benefit you?
- How does the electronic patient file work?
- What can artificial intelligence do - and where are its limits?
- How do you protect your health data?
- What does ethics mean in digital healthcare?
edha makes complex things understandable. So that you can make safer decisions - for yourself, for others and for your health.
Knowledge that takes root
Our 3E principle
Educate
We impart knowledge - understandable, relevant to everyday life, developed together with patients and experts.
Enable
We promote digital skills - so that you can use tools, data and technologies to your advantage.
Empower
We support you in making decisions - and in actively shaping your care.
Who is edha for?
edha is aimed at anyone who wants to understand, use and improve digital health
- People with chronic illnesses
- Relatives and supporters
- Nursing staff in everyday working life
- Patient:inside Organizations & Advocates
- Interested citizens
- Professionals & decision-makers in the healthcare sector
Get active for your digital health literacy
Digital health literacy is important for a healthy future that you shape yourself. It all starts with one small step: interest.
With edha, you can start to build your own understanding - at your own pace, with your curiosity. And if you want, with others in a community.
Informed decisions. Live a self-determined life. Helping to shape the digital world.
No matter where you are - edha grows with you.
And you grow with edha.
Register free of charge and without obligation as soon as we are online!
Start now! And be there right from the start!
This is how your path with edha works:
- Register for free on our learning platform.
- Take a look around - at your leisure.
- Start with your first lesson.
Those who study regularly can even receive a certificate in the future.
We are still at the very beginning - many things are just emerging.
This means that anyone who joins now is not just an early adopter - but a co-creator right from the start. Our platform is currently still under construction, we will let you know as soon as we go online!
Be notified as soon as we go online
About edha
We are a grassroots initiative - not a top-down organization.
We start where our target groups are and get to the root of the matter.
edha does not see itself as a patient organization, we are a growing project - initiated by people with illnesses and lived experience with the desire to make a difference.
We listen. We see where something is missing and sow with knowledge ...
And sometimes we can hear the grass grow!
We believe that digital health literacy is the key to being able to navigate the healthcare system safely and independently.
Who is behind it?
edha was founded in 2022 as a non-profit organization by Birgit Bauer.
Birgit is a communications expert and digital health expert. She is also a Patient Expert and has been living with MS (multiple sclerosis) for over 20 years.
In 2022, Birgit also established the “Data Saves Lives Germany” project and is working successfully with the community, which we also welcome to edha.
I know what good digital solutions can do for people with illnesses, but to achieve this, people with illnesses need to be informed and involved.Right from the start. This is the only way to truly fulfill people's needs and wishes
Our experts
Germany
Martin Praast
Expert in medical informatics and patient advocate
UK
Trishna Bahradia
Patient advocate, consultant and author
Germany
Marius Klages
Founder and CEO Dehaze GmbH
USA
Amanda Montague
MS Association of America & MSAA
USA
Kate Durack
MSAA
Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Claudia Witt
ETH Zurich
Our theme world
A small preview of what you can expect at edha and on our learning platform on Moodle, for example.
Our content is created step by step - not everything is ready immediately, but everything grows.
Digital patient file
What it says, how you use it
Data security
Your health, your decision
Health apps
What really helps
Ethics & responsibility
What digitalization means for all of us
Artificial intelligence
Opportunities and risks
Sustainable - durable - active!
Why are we doing this?
- Because we believe that good information can change lives.
- Because no one should get lost in the jungle of digital terms and tools.
- Because health is a human right, as is knowledge - and orientation is part of it.
- Because developing knowledge together creates community and community creates growth. Like grass, from the bottom up!
Promote and support
Enabling growth and growing with it
edha is independent, non-profit and passionate about what it does.
We welcome people, organizations and institutions,
who want to grow with us.
- edha was funded by Roche from November 2024 to May 2025
- Our content is created with and for people with illnesses and with our interdisciplinary advisory board!
Our sponsors
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Our vision
Digital health literacy for everyone!
When people become more digitally health literate, systems, care and society also benefit - literate citizens mean smarter decisions, more participation and better care.
Contact us
Do you have questions, ideas or would you like to talk to us?
We look forward to hearing from you.
Whether you have feedback, suggestions or are interested in working with us - just write to us. Edha thrives on exchange at eye level.
Together we grow knowledge. 