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The ZHAW Digital Health Lab was launched in 2018 and is led by an interdepartmental board of directors.

Prof. Dr. Sven Hirsch

Head of Research/Focus Area, ZHAW digital health lab, Head of the Center for Computational Health, Chairmen of the Digital Health Lab

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"Digitalisation will revolutionise the health care system. We are shaping this development creatively, innovatively and responsibly for people."

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Prof. Dr. Alfred Angerer

Head of the Health Care Management Unit at the ZHAW School of Management and Law, Deputy Head of the ZHAW Digital Health Lab

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"We need to communicate the good news much more strongly: A smart digitalised healthcare system is the better system for all of us!"

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Prof. Dr. Ruedi Füchslin

Head of Applied Complex Systems Sciences

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"The Digital Health Lab is the platform to solve real problems with new techniques on the one hand and to develop new practice-relevant methods and concepts inspired by practice on the other hand."

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Dr. Nicole Gerber

Lecturer + Project Manager in the Hospitality & Service Management Expert Group at the Institute for Facility Management; Coordinator of Digital Health Lab Ambassadors

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"Without digital support, we will struggle to align resources in complex health organisations in a holistic effective, efficient and consistently stakeholder-centric sense."

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Dr. Christian Russ

Lecturer for ICT strategy, GRC and digital Management at the Institute for Business Information Technology at the School of Management and Law

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"Health affects us all, as an  individual person, in the family, at work and as contributors. Here I want to make a contribution that shows innovations and enables real value contribution to society."

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Prof. Dr. Stephan Scheidegger

Professor for Medical Physics, Program Director Systems Engineering, ZHAW School of Engineering

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"Understanding and knowing are not synonymous: while clinical trials and data offer knowledge, gaining a deeper understanding requires the exploration of novel concepts and methodological approaches."

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Prof. Dr. Markus Wirz

Director and head of Research and Development of the Institute of Physiotherapy at the School of Health Sciences

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"Effective together."

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Ambassadors

ZHAW Digital Health Lab Ambassadors are ZHAW members in different positions and with different backgrounds. They actively contribute their ideas and network contacts regarding the topic of digital health(care).

Dr. Philipp Ackermann

Lecturer for Computer Science in the "Human-Centered Computing" group at the School of Engineering

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"The digitisation of healthcare requires both conceptual excellence and innovative implementation at a technical level, which spurs me on as an interdisciplinary challenge to bring my expertise to bear in team play."

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Dr. Jasmina Bogojeska

Lecturer at the Centre for AI (CAI), Head of Group «Explainable AI (XAI)» at the School of Engineering

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"I want to contribute to the transformation of healthcare through the development of explainable, multimodal AI-powered approaches to disease diagnosis and treatment, in close collaboration with healthcare professionals and patients, in a safe and responsible way."

 

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Prof. Dr. Julia Dratva

Director of Institute, (Co-head) Institute for Public Health, Head Research Public Health, Scientist and Public Health Expert

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"For a successful digital transformation of healthcare, a public health perspective is essential."

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Dr. Zeynep Erden Özkol

Lecturer at Winterthur Institute of Health Economics (WIG) at the School of Management and Law, Private lecturer at ETH Zurich, Lecturer at EPFL, Visiting Professor at Vlerick Business School

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"I actively contribute ideas, run projects, teach and coach on the topic of digital health(care)."

 

 

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Birgit Fuhrmann

Operative head of research and work area Technical Communication at the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED) at the School of Applied linguistics, Professorship Technology Communication incl. Usability Lab

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"With technology communication and usability, I want to drive and promote the inclusion of users in the development process of new digital products, solutions and processes in the field of eHealth, so that they are aligned with the customer, user and patient journey."

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Prof. Dr. Eveline Graf

Head of the Movement Laboratory at the Research Center Physiotherapy Science, Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Institute of Physiotherapy (focus on biomechanics and technologies in physiotherapy) at the School of Health Sciences

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"It takes collaboration between different disciplines and a real understanding of the practice to effectively implement digitalisation in healthcare."

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Dr. Jens Haarmann

Senior Lecturer for Product Management, Focus on Healthcare, at the ZHAW School of Management and Law

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«Too many digital health projects unfortunately fail because they underestimated revenue model, market approval, data privacy and other challenges of the healthcare market. Bringing innovation to life despite these challenges, is where we can support intra- and entrepreneurs with early product-market fit and strategy evaluations.» 

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Dr. Florian Liberatore

Dep. Head of Health Care Management at Institute of Health Economics (WIG) at the School of Management and Law

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"The Digital Health Lab networks and bundles competencies and resources in research and consulting and therefore offers ideal opportunities to support the digitalisation of complex systems in the health sector."

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Prof. Dr. Thomas Ott

Director of Institute of Computational Life Sciences (ICLS) at the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management

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"Digital Health is a central topic for the Institute for Computational Life Sciences. It requires an understanding of a transformative, i.e. socially effective and application-oriented science, to which our institute and I personally feel committed."

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Pirmin Pfammatter

Senior Researcher at the Section for Developmental and Family Psychology at the School of Applied Psychology

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"People are the key to successful technology in healthcare."

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Dr. Yulia Sandamirskaya

Head of research focus "Cognitive Computing in Life Sciences", Institute of Computational Life Sciences (ICLS) at the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management

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"We want to make robotics and AI fit for the hospital, i.e. safe and useful, and for this we need to build a bridge between healthcare specialists and technology developers."

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Prof. Dr. Frank-Peter Schilling

Lecturer at the Centre for AI (CAI) and head Research group Intelligent Vision Systems (IVS) at the School of Engineering, Coordinator of PhD Program UZH

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"I want to harness the enormous potential of safe and trustworthy AI for diagnostics and treatment, as well as in everyday clinical practice."

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Dr. Colette Schneider Stingelin

Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute of Applied Media Studies (IAM) at the School of Applied Linguistics

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"When introducing digital solutions, strategically planned communication is central to acceptance and part of empowerment."

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Dr. Georg Spinner

Head of research group Medical Image Analysis & Data Modeling at the Institute for Computational Life Sciences (ICLS) at the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management

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"So that we can drive evidence-based medicine using statistical data modelling."

 

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Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann

Professor specialising in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) at the School of Engineering

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"Digital Health is a heavyweight in ZHAW research, with dozens of excellent working groups and the proven possibilities to approach the topic in a holistic and transformative way. We are pleased to make a technological contribution to this from the perspective of artificial intelligence."

 

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Dr. med. Philipp Stalder

Lecturer for Business Information Systems, Center for Process Management and Information Security at the School of Management and Law

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"The sensible digitalisation of the healthcare system is a major concern for me, so that patients receive better care and the administrative workload in medical care is reduced."

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Sandra Ulrich

Doctoral student in the Diagnostics & Counselling Group at the Psychology Institute of t School of Applied Psychology

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"We have the opportunity and responsibility to develop digital health interventions and increase the availability of safe, effective and accessible services."

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Christian Weber

Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute of Business Information Technology, Center for Process Management and Information Security at the School of Management and Law

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"To bring the diversity and power of modern technologies into practice for the benefit of patients and the provision of healthy living."

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Dr. Samuel Wehrli

Head research group Biosignal Analysis and Digital Health, lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Computational Life Sciences (ICLS) at the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management

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"I want to support people with digital solutions."

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Supporters

The supporters of the ZHAW Digital Health Lab are currently organisational units of the ZHAW. All supporters have the intention of advancing the Lab and its goals.

Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI), School of Engineering

The CAI is a centre of excellence for research and deployment of artificial intelligence and machine learning. We develop humane and trustworthy AI in Switzerland, train talents in the latest methods and develop solutions for the great challenges of our time. We focus on autonomous learning systems, computer vision, perception and cognition, natural language processing, trustworthy AI and AI engineering.

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Division of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics (IEM), School of Engineering

The IEM brings together four research institutes:

as well as three degree programmes:

  • Computer science
  • Electrical engineering
  • Systems engineering

Topics such as machine learning, eHealth, mobile health, wearable sensors or medical technology form important research and teaching content of the institutes and degree programmes.

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Expert group Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology, Psychology Institute, School of Applied Psychology

Together with partners in practice, the expert group investigates the evidence, suitability and effectiveness of various therapeutic and diagnostic concepts as well as interventions under practice conditions. This practice-oriented research approach is taken, for example, in projects in which we examine psychotherapies of different methodological approaches in real practice situations as well as in those of health care research. Furthermore, we are also interested in mental health from a preventive perspective. Psychology has a broad knowledge of possible early diagnosis and preventive measures in all age groups.

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Institute of Applied Mathematics and Physics (IAMP), School of Engineering

The IAMP focuses on five thematic research areas: applied optics, applied complex systems science, medicine and biophysics, safety critical systems and scientific computing and algorithmics.

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Institute of Computational Life Sciences (ICLS), School of Life Sciences and Facility Management

The ICLS lives computational science as an interdisciplinary approach to address complex problems and develop new solutions in the central areas of health, society and environment. The IAS thus makes an important contribution to solving societal challenges and improving quality of life. We use various modelling techniques to identify and describe interrelationships in systems. In addition, we apply various simulation techniques to make complex dependencies and temporal progressions visible and understandable. Modelling and simulation form the basis for further analyses and optimisations.

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Institute of Public Health, School of Health Sciences

The IPH is a national competency center for health care, health promotion & prevention and interprofessional communication & collaboration with an international outreach. The main topics of the IPH are: health care of the Swiss population, public health, health promotion & prevention, occupational health management, and interprofessional health care, education and research.

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Institute of Business Information Technology, School of Management and Law

The IWI operates at the interface between business administration and informatics. Informatics is not only a driver for process optimisation, but now enables completely new business models. We support companies from a wide range of industries as well as public institutions in the digital transformation of their business models, the redesign of their customer processes and process automation.

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Expert Group Hospitality & Service Management (KGHM), School of Life Sciences & Facility Management

The expert group researches and works on topics in the field of hospitality and service management.
Our research focus "FM in Healthcare" is all about stakeholder-centred management of non-medical services in healthcare organisations.

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Winterthur Institute of Health Economics, School of Management and Law

The WIG is a competency centre for economic and business management issues in the health sector. The focus is on health technology assessment (HTA), health economic evaluations, health services research, patient classification systems, health policy, strategy and process optimisation, market analyses and integrated care.

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Office

The Digital Health Lab Office takes care of the communication and administrative needs of the community.

Natyra Ajvazy

Natyra Ajvazi is the Marketing, Communications and Office Manager at the Institute of Computational Life Sciences. In the Digital Health Lab, she is responsible for the implementation of communication and marketing activities.

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lic. phil. I Sunjoy Mathieu

Sunjoy Mathieu is a research associate at the Center for Computational Health at the ZHAW Life Sciences and Facility Management. In the Digital Health Lab she is part of the management team and as such responsible for the strategy and coordination of communication and marketing activities.

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