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.
Around 170 participants from universities and industry discussed the latest trends and solutions in the field of digital health at the 3. Digital Health Lab Day on September 16, 2021. Another 150 health professionals, developers, managers, practitioners and researchers followed the keynotes and start-up pitches online. We thank all participants for their interest and active participation!
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
Hier finden Sie eine Liste der anstehenden ZHAW Digital Health Online Seminare. Beim Online Seminar handelt es sich um eine regelmässige Serie von Inputreferaten rund um die Themen und Angeboten des ZHAW Digital Health Lab.
- 27.10.21, 13:00 – 13:45 Uhr
Biodesign - The Silicon Valley Method for Disruptive Digital Health Innovation
Dr. Jens Haarmann, ZHAW Institute for Marketing Management
Zoom-Meeting beitreten Meeting-ID: 663 2663 9721 - 24.11.21, 13:00 – 13:45 Uhr
Digital Health Regulation - Software as a Medical Device, or not?
Pierre Geens, MBA / Medidee Services
Zoom-Meeting beitreten Meeting-ID: 646 4863 9022
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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Scheidegger, Stephan; Fellermann, Harold,
2019.
Optimizing radiation therapy treatments by exploring tumour ecosystem dynamics in-silico [paper].
In:
Fellermann, Harold; Bacardit, Jaume; Goñi-Moreno, Ángel; Füchslin, Rudolf M., eds.,
Alife 2019 : proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2019.
Alife 2019, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 29 July - 2 August 2019.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
pp. 236-242.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00167
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Hirsch, Sven; Juchler, Norman,
2019.
In:
1. Digital Health Lab Day (Life in Numbers 5), Wädenswil, 3. October 2019.
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Färber, Andri; Zigan, Nicole; Dolata, Mateusz; Stalder, Philipp; Koppitz, Andrea Luise; Schwabe, Gerhard,
2019.
In:
Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Grand Wailea HI, USA, 8-11 January 2019.
HICSS.
pp. 4125-4134.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3366
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Baur, Kilian; Rohrbach, Nina; Hermsdörfer, Joachim; Riener, Robert; Klamroth-Marganska, Verena,
2019.
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation.
16(1).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12984-019-0547-3
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Juchler, Norman; Schilling, Sabine; Bijlenga, Philippe; Rüfenacht, Daniel; Kurtcuoglu, Vartan; Hirsch, Sven,
2019.
Understanding morphological irregularity : a rater-based study [paper].
In:
CMBE19 Proceedings.
6th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering (CMBE19), Sendai City, Japan, 10-12 June 2019.
Cardiff:
Zeta Computational Resources.
pp. 583.
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2018.
The role of models in applied sciences.
In:
Talk at SWISSNEX Meeting, Winterthur, 12. Dezember 2018.
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.