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.

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.
Digital Health Events
12.09.2022. The theme of the fourth edition of the ZHAW Digital Health Lab Day is: "Smart Healthcare & Digital Innovation".
In keynotes, workshops, poster presentations and start-up pitches as well as other formats, the developments and concrete applications of digital solutions for healthcare, including in the area of smart hospitals, will be presented and discussed using impressive showcases.
Projects
Publications
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Herzig, Ivo; Paysan, Pascal; Scheib, Stefan; Züst, Alexander; Schilling, Frank-Peter; Montoya, Javier; Amirian, Mohammadreza; Stadelmann, Thilo; Eggenberger Hotz, Peter; Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel; Lichtensteiger, Lukas,
2022.
Deep learning-based simultaneous multi-phase deformable image registration of sparse 4D-CBCT [poster].
In:
AAPM Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 10-14 July 2022.
American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
pp. e325-e326.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.15769
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Meidert, Ursula; Egger, Selina; Klamroth-Marganska, Verena,
2022.
Effective mHealth for stress prevention and management in times of sparce health care resources [poster].
In:
24th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion, Montreal, Canada, 15-19 May 2022.
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25044
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Juchler, Norman; Schilling, Sabine; Bijlenga, Philippe; Kurtcuoglu, Vartan; Hirsch, Sven,
2022.
Frontiers in Neurology.
13(809391).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2022.809391
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Meidert, Ursula; Scheermesser, Mandy,
2022.
Verschiedene Gesundheitskonzepte im Rahmen der digitalen Selbstvermessung
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In:
Cappel, Valeska; Kappler, Karolin Eva, eds.,
Gesundheit – Konventionen – Digitalisierung : eine politische Ökonomie der (digitalen) Transformationsprozesse von und um Gesundheit.
Wiesbaden:
Springer.
pp. 335-359.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-34306-4_12
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Suter, Susanne; Spinner, Georg; Hoelz, Bianca; Rey, Sofia; Thanabalasingam, Sujeanthraa; Eckstein, Jens; Hirsch, Sven,
2022.
Visualization and analysis of wearable health data from COVID-19 patients.
arXiv.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-24219
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Renyi, Madeleine; Hegedüs, Anna; Schmitter, Paul; Berger, Fabian; Ballmer, Thomas Michael; Maier, Edith; Kunze, Christophe,
2022.
Lessons learned : the multifaceted field of (digital) neighborhood development.
The Journal of Community Informatics.
18(1).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v18i1.4427
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.