Decoding Headaches in Digital Helvetia (DHDH)
Patients must describe their headaches so that physicians can make the correct diagnosis. How can this process be improved using linguistic, digital and clinical methods?
Description
Headaches are a major cause of health loss in Switzerland. The DHDH project brings together digital and analog processes for headache communication. Using methods from linguistics and digital language analysis, the project team aim to close the gaps between communications in the hospital setting and pain expression in the digital world.
Key data
Projectlead
Deputy Projectlead
Project partners
Universitätsspital Zürich / Department of Neurology / University Hospital of Psychiatry; Universität Zürich / Department of German and Scandinavian Studies; Inselspital Bern; University of Gothenburg / Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science; Praxis Neurologie am Untertor; Bellevue Medical Group AG / Neurozentrum Sternen
Project status
ongoing, started 11/2025
Institute/Centre
Institute of Language Competence (ILC)
Funding partner
Digitalisierungsinitiative der Zürcher Hochschulen DIZH
Project budget
438'953 CHF
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