Medical School among the "World's Best Smart Hospitals" for the first time
The Hannover Medical School impresses in Newsweek's Smart Hospital Ranking and achieves top positions in nine specialist areas.
Aerial view of the MHH, July 2025
Modern treatment centers that rely on advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotic surgery, telemedicine and automation to improve patient care will continue to grow in importance in the coming years. The American weekly newspaper "Newsweek" lists the 350 smartest hospitals in the world in its "World's Best Smart Hospitals 2026" list. In the ranking, Hannover Medical School (MHH) now appears for the first time in 115th place - as the ninth best smart hospital in Germany and the only one in Lower Saxony.
"MHH wants to meet the global challenges in a resilient way and is positioning itself as a central driving force for future-oriented health research and healthcare," says MHH President Professor Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner. "This fantastic ranking is a great success for the entire MHH and shows that we are successful with our focus on innovation in healthcare. At the same time, the award is also an incentive for us to constantly improve."
Top placings in nine specialist disciplines
At the beginning of the year, MHH was ranked among the top 100 hospitals worldwide in the renowned "Newsweek" ranking and in fifth place among German hospitals. MHH clinics have now made it into the rankings of the world's best specialized hospitals in nine of the twelve specialties examined. The specialist ranking "World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026" lists the 300 best hospitals for cardiology and oncology, the 150 best for cardiac surgery, gastroenterology, endocrinology, neurology, orthopaedics and pneumology and the 125 best for neurosurgery.
In the field of cardiology, the MHH Clinic for Cardiology and Angiology is ranked 59th worldwide, while in oncology, the MHH Clinic for Hematology, Hemostaseology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation was ranked 81st among the world's 300 best specialty departments. The Pneumology Department of the MHH Clinic for Pneumology and Infectiology is ranked 41st among the world's 150 best specialty departments; the MHH Clinic for Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery is ranked 44th and the Neurology Department of the MHH Clinic for Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology is ranked 63rd. In the specialist field of endocrinology and gastroenterology, the MHH Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology was included in the list of the world's 150 best specialist departments, as was the Clinic for Orthopaedics. Finally, in the specialized field of neurosurgery, the MHH Clinic for Neurosurgery was ranked an outstanding 30th out of 125 clinics worldwide.
Ranking based on global online survey
Newsweek's ranking, in collaboration with the data portal Statista, is based on a global online survey conducted from May to July 2025 using recommendations from medical professionals, accreditation data and certifications, as well as the evaluation of patient-related outcome reports.
(Published: September 26, 2025)