Friedrich Koehler, MD, FESC is Senior Physician in Cardiology at the Medical Department, Division of Cardiology and Angiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Professor for Cardiovascular Telemedicine. He is Director of the Centre for Cardiovascular Telemedicine which is the specialized in research and development projects of remote patient management of heart failure patients. From 2013-2018 he was Principial Investigator of the public funded randomized controlled trial „Telemedical Interventional Management in Heart Failure II“ (TIM-HF2, NCT01878630) with 1,538 heart failure patients. Also, he is working in task forces for Digital Medicine in the European Society of Cardiology and German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM). Since 2019 he is consortium leader of the R&D project „TELEMED5000“, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, focussing on artifical intelligence in remote patient management of cardiovascular patients.