Projects
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Playful support for digital change in care or nursing homes
ImaginEd is a simulation game for supporting digital change in schools. We want to explore the extent to which the game is suitable for use in retirement/nursing homes (APHs) and what needs to be adapted for specific contexts, so that APHs can also be supported.
ongoing, 03/2025 - 02/2026
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Food Waste Measure in Airline Catering (FoodVision)
FoodVision aims to evaluate the marked and validate the commercial potential, integrate best practices and ensure alignment with sustainability goals for the further development of a fully automated, high-volume food waste measurement and detection system leveraging AI technology.
ongoing, 11/2024 - 11/2025
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Zipp & Scan
Applied research regarding the implementation of Zipp & Scan for handling of patient's belongings
ongoing, 09/2024 - 10/2025
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RobotCare – User experience in development of service robots for elderly care
Objectives of the project: Establish a systematic dialogue between the technology developers and researchers and the elderly/healthcare institution stakeholders (including medical, care, and service personnel, management, patients, and their families) in both regions and develop a suitable…
ongoing, 09/2024 - 08/2025
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Digitalisation and technologisation in care homes
The aim of the project is to develop the potential of technologies and digitalisation for retirement and nursing homes based on scientific principles. Situational analyses, expert interviews and focus groups will be used to analyse technological solutions that are either directly related to the…
completed, 02/2024 - 12/2024
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Nudging for Sustainability
completed, 01/2023 - 12/2023
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Improving the well-being of residents in care homes by making catering services more flexible with the help of technology
It was known from previous projects that catering services in retirement and nursing homes are currently strongly geared towards working hours and the presence of employees. With the increasing individualisation of society, it can be assumed that future residents will demand more flexible catering…
completed, 10/2022 - 01/2023
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DIGINUT – Comprehensive Digitalisation of Patient Nutrition Uptake in Health Care
completed, 10/2021 - 04/2022
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DC4HC – Digital Competence for Healthcare
The Innosuisse project, Digital Competence for Healthcare (DC4HC), aims to develop a digital platform that will support Swiss healthcare institutions in their digital transformation efforts. In particular, the focus of DC4HC is on the non-medical support services.A state-of-the-art digital maturity…
completed, 09/2021 - 04/2023
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Cleaning Isolation rooms used by Covid-19 patients
The Institute for Facility Management (IFM), together with stakeholders from the healthcare and cleaning sectors has produced a series of training videos on cleaning the isolation rooms used by COVID-19 patients.To train cleaners on how to clean isolation rooms with COVID-19 patients and ensure…
completed, 03/2020 - 05/2020
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Data-driven decision support for intracranial aneurysms and hospital catering using Bayesian networks
Clinical decisions in medicine and management decisions in facility management are regularly made on the basis of little evidence or extrapolations and are also influenced by subjective and economic aspects. While data is generated exponentially in medicine due to increasing digitization, there is…
completed, 03/2020 - 12/2021
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Determining the strategic need for action in the digitalization of hospitals on a normative, strategic and operational level
Increasing cost pressure and the required competitiveness are forcing Swiss hospitals to optimize their non-medical processes, in particular regarding efficiency and productivity. Digitalization introduces new opportunities for transforming business processes that meet future health policy…
completed, 02/2020 - 11/2020
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SmartCareNet
Preliminary study for the development of an Integrated IoT Management System for a comprehensive, infrastructural monitoring of elderly care home facilities and Smart Homes
completed, 03/2019 - 01/2020
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Data analysis as a basis for the development of a KPI system for non-medical support services in hospitals
completed, 01/2019 - 01/2020
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Platform Health
Researchers from the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management (LSFM) initiated a platform to promote interdisciplinary research in the field of health. The School of LSFM supports this initiative to increase visibility of all health-research related activities in teaching, R&D, continued…
completed, 11/2018 - 12/2020
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Standardized Room Categories in Hospitals (RakaS)
completed, 04/2018 - 06/2019
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AALBridge
Smart Solutions in Transitional Care in Swiss Healthcare
completed, 03/2018 - 11/2018
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Digital Services as part of the non-medical support services in hospitals
completed, 08/2017 - 02/2019
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ActiveAdvice
Decision Support for Independent Living
completed, 05/2016 - 11/2018
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Project Management in Hospitals
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…
completed, 05/2016 - 06/2017