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
No events available.
Publications
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Seifert, Alexander; Meidert, Ursula,
2018.
„Quantified seniors“ : technisch unterstützte Selbstvermessung bei älteren Personen.
Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung.
13(4), pp. 353-360.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11553-018-0646-1
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Scheermesser, Mandy; Meidert, Ursula,
2018.
Exploring quantified self attitudes and practices [paper].
In:
SEG-SSE-SAA Annual Meeting «Knowledge (Trans) Formations in Anthropology», Zurich, 22-23 November 2018.
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Meidert, Ursula; Scheermesser, Mandy; Prieur, Yvonne; Hegyi, Stefan; Stockinger, Kurt; Eyyi, Gabriel; Evers-Wölk, Michaela; Jacob, Mattis; Oertel, Britta; Becker, Heidrun Karin,
2018.
Quantified Self : Schnittstelle zwischen Lifestyle und Medizin.
Zürich:
vdf Hochschulverlag.
ISBN 978-3-7281-3891-0.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1941
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Albicker, Daniel; Angerer, Alfred; Ehrlich, Thomas,
2018.
Schnittstellen aktiv mitgestalten.
Competence: H+ Hospital Forum.
2018(11), pp. 30-31.
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2017.
In:
Vortrag am TecDay an der Alten Kantonsschule Aarau, Aarau, 9. November 2017.
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Angerer, Alfred; Schmidt, Robin; Moll, Clemens; Strunk, Lynn Eva; Brügger, Urs,
2017.
Digital Health : die Zukunft des Schweizer Gesundheitswesens.
Winterthur:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
ISBN 978-3-03870-010-4.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3455
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.