ZHAW Digital Health Lab
The ZHAW Digital Health Lab brings together experts from the fields of biomedicine, health, technology and business, who together create innovations for digitisation in healthcare.
On the 2nd Digital Health Lab Day on October 1, 2020, around 230 participants from universities and industry discussed the latest trends and solutions in the field of digital health. The multifaceted topic of digital citizen-based medicine was explored in depth in exciting keynotes, interactive workshops and a pitch session for digital health start-ups. We thank all participants for their interest and active participation!
The 3rd Digital Health Lab Day will take place on Thursday, September 16, 2021 - if possible on site in Winterthur.
Vision & Mission
We believe that digital health has tremendous potential to enhance the well-being of everyone in our population. In aiming to make healthcare more accurate, personalized, and preventive, digital health focuses on the individual.
We face the challenges of digitalization in the healthcare sector by developing solutions for healthcare innovations. Through its broad base within ZHAW, the ZHAW Digital Health Lab combines the expertise of specialized research groups in technology, healthcare, and business. This forms a unique breeding ground for digital health solutions throughout Switzerland.
We aim to be a leading, internationally recognized Swiss competence center in digital health. To achieve this, we rely on interdisciplinary cooperation and scientific exchange between our members. We work closely with service providers, industry representatives, health insurance companies, policy-makers, and other research partners to facilitate research, innovation, and technology transfer.
Our vision
The ZHAW Digital Health Lab creates innovations for the healthcare sector that focus on people. We improve health care and promote technology transfer between science, industry and society.
Our mission
As a competence network, we work together with our partners to develop solutions to current challenges in the healthcare sector. In doing so, we exploit the potential of our interdisciplinary approach. We rely on result-oriented cooperation with our network and are valued as a competent partner.
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Who we are
The ZHAW Digital Health Lab is a virtual, interdepartmental organization of Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) comprising several departments and institutes. It brings together a variety of digital health activities and combines the competence fields of technology, healthcare, and business within ZHAW.
Board & Associates
The ZHAW Digital Health Lab was established in 2018 and is managed by a 6-member board of directors. The board meets regularly with its associates to discuss the latest digital health topics. More information about the Board and the Associates can be found here.
Members
The members of the ZHAW Digital Health Lab are currently organizational units of the ZHAW. All members have significant potential and the intention to advance the lab and its goals. More information about the members can be found here.
Projects
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FairCare
FairCare intends to improve the coordination of formal and informal care and to bring together supply and demand for care for the elderly. In Switzerland, there is a large number of private and public service providers offering a wide range of services for the elderly in need. However, it is difficult to find one's ...
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ExpAct
As part of the European research project, a standard software was developed for the easy and rapid implementation of skills assessments and mediation platforms for older people. By recording the experiences of older people, transparency is created on the labour market about the unused experience and human capital. ...
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Telecare Technology for an Ageing Society in Europe
Background: Ageing societies in western countries lead to more people with chronic health conditions and in need of care. Recent developments in technology have led to more devices supporting elderly people. They provide health care and enable elderly people to maintain their autonomy and allow them to live ...
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DOSSy
DOSSy is a research project, partly funded by the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme Call 4 (AAL JP), initiated by the EU to research the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) under the Guideline "ICT for aging well".
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2PCS - Personal Caring and Protection System
Further projects
- Quantifizierung des Kosten-Nutzens-Verhältnis einer cloudbasierten App zum Management von Beständen im OP. Innosuisse Projekt mit Praxispartner CNM Cargo Network Management GmbH und zwei Schweizer Kliniken.
Publications
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2017.
Applied complex systems sciences.
In:
WIVACE 2017 book of abstracts.
XII International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Venice, Italy, 19-21 September 2017.
Reggio Emilia:
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio nell'Emilia.
Available from: https://wivace.org/2017/files/bookOfAbstracts.pdf
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2017.
In:
Rotary Club Lenzburg, Lenzburg, 13. März 2017.
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Mertes, Alexander; Liberatore, Florian,
2017.
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In:
Pfannstiel, Mario A.; Da-Cruz, Patrick; Mehlich, Harald, eds.,
Digitale Transformation von Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen I : Impulse für die Versorgung.
Wiesbaden:
Springer.
pp.121-132.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-12258-4
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Krütli, Pius; Smieszek, Timo; Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel; Eschle, Patrik,
2017.
Liste des priorités et calcul des contingents : préparation aux pandémies en Suisse.
Zürich:
ETH Zürich.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-5544
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2016.
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2015.
In:
Proceedings The Tenth International Conference on Knowledge Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2015).
KICSS 2015 : The Tenth International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems, Phuket, Thailand, 12-14 November 2015.
Thammasat University.
Digital Health Events
Here you will find a list of upcoming Digital Health events:
09.06.21: The 8th Swiss Conference on Data Science – SDS2021
01.-02.07.21: Swiss eHealth Forum, Bern
02.-03.09.21: 9. Swiss Green Economy Symposium, Winterthur
Contact
Would you like to know more about the ZHAW Digital Health Lab? Alternatively, would you like to join us in creating healthcare innovations? Contact us at digitalhealthlab@zhaw.ch.