The German government is pursuing the development of medical uses of AI. At a panel discussion held in conjunction with the country's Science Year 2019 (Wissenschaftsjahr 2019) Germany's Minister of Education and Research, Anja Karliczek, and a group of experts spoke about how to lay the groundwork to optimize the use of AI in healthcare. The panel first addressed the broad range of opportunities for applying AI in medicine. These ranged from diagnosis to analyzing and classifying enormous amounts of patient data to aid doctors and healthcare staff alike. One example they cited was a German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Heidelberg University Hospital project that has shown AI is effective in analyzing images to identify the most deadly type of skin cancer, malignant melanoma.