To ensure that warnings in extremely dangerous situations sound even when the sound is turned off, the warning app KATWARN activates the “critical alarm” function and is now providing a free update for this purpose.

The latest evaluation of a tsunami exercise on the island of Kos by the European Commission shows that KATWARN is crucial for quickly warning those affected. During last year's exercise, KATWARN was the only warning app used, along with other warning channels such as sirens, scoreboards and loudspeakers.

KATRETTER has officially started at the Berlin Fire Department. After an intensive test phase of one year, the targeted training and networking of civilian helpers is to become an important supplementary component for emergency rescue. The helper system is based on the KATWARN technology and was developed by researchers of the Public Safety business unit of Fraunhofer FOKUS. It is a cooperation with the Berlin Fire Department and CombiRisk GmbH.

The digitization of the health care system forms the basis for initial approaches to the automation of standard procedures and care processes. However, the efficiency promises of automation are diverse and have so far been based on individual examinations. Fraunhofer FOKUS has just published a study on the state of the art of automation approaches for digital therapy applications.