• 8.30 Registration
• 9.00 Welcome
  Prof. Dr. Maria Schubert, ZHAW, School of Health Professions, Winterthur, Switzerland, Working Group 2 COST Action
  Dr. Dietmar Ausserhofer, Claudiana, Bozen, Italy, Working Group 2 COST Action
  Prof. Dr. Andreas Gerber-Grote, Dean, ZHAW, School of Health Professions, Winterthur, Switzerland
  Alain Junger, Executive of the Swiss Nurses Association
• 9.10 COST Action RANCARE
  Prof. Evridiki Papastavrou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus, Chair COST Action
• 9.20 Using DAGs to unpick nurse staffing, workload and rationing of care
  Prof. Dr. Michael Simon, University of Basel, University Hospital Insel, Bern, Switzerland
• 10.00 Optimization of staff scheduling in inpatient long-term care
  Dr. Alexander Grimm, Aspaara Algorithmic Solutions AG, Zurich, Switzerland
  Dr. Thomas Herrmann, ZHAW School of Engineering, Winterthur, Switzerland
• 10.40 Coffee Break
• 11.10 Workshop I: Nursing performance indicator and nurses' work environment (Parallelworkshop)
  Dr. Cedric Mabiré,  University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• 11.10 Workshop II: Identifying opportunities to represent (Parallelworkshop)
  Prof. Dr. Michael Simon, Prof. Dr. Michael Simon, University of Basel, University Hospital Insel, Bern, Switzerland
• 12.10 Lunch Break
• 13.00 Using nurse sensitive outcomes as technology to indicate service-level costs of missed care
  Prof. Dr. Kasia Bail, University of Canberra, Australia
• 13.40 Service and Social Robots - chances and risks in different fields of application
  Prof. Dr. Hartmut Schulze, University of Applied Science and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland
• 14:20 How can service robots support teams in the care setting?
  Matthias Geier, Solution Management Transport Automation EMEA, Swisslog Healthcare, Buchs, Switzerland
• 15.00 Coffee Break
• 15.30 Workshop III: Electronic medical chart technology – Visitentool – an interprofessional patient management tool (Parallelworkshop)
  Antoinette Conca, Cantonal Hospital Aarau, Switzerland
• 15.30 Workshop III: Workshop IV: Identification and evaluation of fields of application of service and social robots in the care sector (Parallelworkshop)
  Prof. Dr. Hartmut Schulze, University of Applied Science and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland
• 16.30 Roundup and Farewell
  Prof. Dr. Maria Schubert, Dr. Dietmar Ausserhofer
• 16.45 End of event

The aims of this workshop are

• to enhance the knowledge regarding technological solutions that offer the potential to prevent or reduce missed and rationed nursing care,
• to promote the discussion on the role of technological solutions in the context of missed and rationed nursing care,
• to explore the benefits and added value of already developed and available technological interventions including electronic health records, robotics, etc.,
•  to discuss the development and testing of new technological solutions for preventing or reducing rationed and missed care in different healthcare settings.

• Nurse managers and educators, clinicians
• Physicians
• Health politicians
• Scientists, PhD and master students
• Technologists, manufacturer
• Developers from the following fields: nursing, nursing or health science, public or digital health, robotics, information technology

Participation is free of charge, including lunch.

Winterthur is a very pretty small town about a 20 minute train ride from Zurich. The cities of Zurich, Berne and Lucerne as well as the Swiss mountains are easily reachable by public transport.

Winterthur offers a variety of hotels, backpacker or youth hostel. You will find further information at www.winterthur-tourismus.ch