FM in Healthcare
Facility Management in Healthcare: highly complex and highly stimulating.
Our research focal point “FM in Healthcare” focuses on stakeholder-centric management of non-medical support services in healthcare organisations.
Depending on the setting, we take part as a partner in a research project, as advisors in a service contract or we include students within student projects. Our procedures are holistic, interlinked and systematic with the goal to develop practice-oriented and applicable solutions.
Our Projects
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AALBridge
AAL-solutions and AI becomes more and more of interest for care and senior living facilities. However, this often very small entities lack access to and the know-how of how to use and introduce these solutions. In addition, transitional care and with that the 'Hospital at Home' asks for new care logics with new ...
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Digital Services as part of the non-medical support services in hospitals
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Facility Management & BIM in Hospitals
The digital transformation will also include facility management in the coming years. This change will have positive consequences in the sense of a revaluation of FM; however, only if the FM industry does not follow the digital transformation for its own business one to one, but rather comprehend it, in order to be ...
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ActiveAdvice
The ActiveAdvice project aims to deliver a fully functional ICT environment with specific web and mobile services for older adults and their relatives, for professionals in inclusive design and construction engineering across Europe, as well as for governments and municipalities involved in Active and Assisted ...
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Project Management in Hospitals (FM)
The importance of Project Management (PM) in hospitals is growing due to the increasing amalgamation of disciplines in conjunction with the need for greater efficiency and quality of services in hospitals. Current experience in hospital projects and conversations with people involved in hospital projects has led to ...
Our publications
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Merkle, Thorsten; Plüss, Till,
2024.
Organisationsformen des Facility Management in Schweizer Akutspitälern.
Wädenswil:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29640
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Diez, Karin; Rothe, Frank,
2023.
In:
13. Fachkonferenz – Das Spital der Zukunft, Blezinger Healthcare, Luzern, Schweiz, 19.-21. Oktober 2023.
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Merkle, Thorsten; Wrase, Isabelle,
2023.
Digitizing healthcare patient nutrition intake in Swiss hospitals [paper].
In:
Annual International CHRIE Summer Conference, Phoenix, USA, 19-21 July 2023.
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Gerber, Nicole; Merkle, Thorsten,
2023.
Individualisierte Verpflegung – ein Megatrend.
In:
8. Fachkonferenz – Das Pflegeheim der Zukunft, Blezinger Healthcare, Luzern, Schweiz, 22.-23. Juni 2023.
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Schmitter, Paul; Gatziu Grivas, Stella,
2023.
Die Messung des digitalen Reifegrads.
Clinicum.
2023(3), pp. 58-59.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28509
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