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 supporters. 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.
Would you like to be informed about current news, studies and publications, events and current projects in the field of Digital Health? Our newsletter is published about 3 - 4 times a year.
Digital Health Lab Day
In keynotes, workshops, poster presentations and start-up pitches as well as other formats, the developments and specific applications of digital solutions for the healthcare sector will be presented and discussed using impressive showcases.
5. digital Health Lab Day - Digital Strategies for Future Healthcare
4. Digital Health Lab Day - Smart Healthcare & Digital Innovation
3. Digital Health Lab Day - Implementing Digital Health Innovations
2. Digital Health Lab Day - Digital Citizen-based Medicine
Projects
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REFRACT – Repeat protein Function, Refinement, Annotation and Classification of Topologies
REFRACT is an international consortium aiming to extend our knowledge on the mechanism of tandem repeat protein (TRP) function and evolution, establishing a common classification and best practices. Starting from available state of the art computational tools and databases, it aims to drive a new level of TRP ...
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ACDC – Artificial Cells with Distributed Cores to Decipher Protein Function
ACDC will employ a rapidly expanding living technology platform of transformational artificial cell technologies towards the next generation of small molecule drug discovery, protein biophysics, and biochemical energy production. This will be executed through a future paradigm of sensory and synthesis regimes, based ...
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Data Driven Medical muscle Training
Muscle loss is a concomitant of various diseases (cachexia) and the usual aging process (sarcopenia). Limiting this reduction and, ideally, even reversing it makes medical and economic sense. In medicine, the metabolic function (in addition to the pure movement) of the muscles is increasingly understood and ...
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Neuronal Growth Modelling (BioDynaMo Initial Project)
The aim of the project is to create a simulation module in the BioDynaMo framework for three-dimensional modeling of the structural development of a part of the human cortex. The implementation is based on an existing model. This project serves an initial contribution to the BioDynaMo consortium. ...
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Digital Health: Scientific process-cost-analysis in hematological diagnostics
Publications
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Reissenberger, Pamela; Serfözö, Peter; Piper, Diana; Juchler, Norman; Glanzmann, Sara; Gram, Jasmin; Hensler, Karina; Tonidandel, Hannah; Börlin, Elena; D’Souza, Marcus; Badertscher, Patrick; Eckstein, Jens,
2023.
European Heart Journal - Digital Health.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztad039
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Bächinger, David; Filidoro, Noemi; Naville, Marc; Juchler, Norman; Kurtcuoglu, Vartan; Nadol, Joseph B.; Schuknecht, Bernhard; Kleinjung, Tobias; Veraguth, Dorothe; Eckhard, Andreas H.,
2023.
Scientific Reports.
13(1), pp. 10303.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36479-5
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Emberger, Raphael; Boss, Jens Michael; Baumann, Daniel; Seric, Marko; Huo, Shufan; Tuggener, Lukas; Keller, Emanuela; Stadelmann, Thilo,
2023.
Video object detection for privacy-preserving patient monitoring in intensive care [paper].
In:
2023 10th IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS).
10th IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), Zurich, Switzerland, 22-23 June 2023.
IEEE.
pp. 85-88.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS57534.2023.00019
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Schmitter, Paul; Kirecci, Ilyas; Gatziu Grivas, Stella; Hanne, Thomas; Beck, Chantal,
2023.
Transformation Compass für nicht-medizinische Supportprozesse (DE).
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27958
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Schmitter, Paul; Ashworth, Simon,
2023.
In:
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science.
CIB W070 Conference on Facility Management and Maintenance 2023, Trondheim, Norway, 8-11 May 2023.
IOP Publishing.
pp. 012012.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1176/1/012012
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Gerber, Nicole; Merkle, Thorsten; Jeanfavre, Elsa,
2023.
Wädenswil:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26854
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.