DC4HC – Digital Competence for Healthcare
At a glance
- Project leader : Prof. Dr. Susanne Hofer, Dr. Thorsten Merkle
- Co-project leader : Ilyas Kirecci, Paul Schmitter
- Project team : Prof. Dr. Thomas Hanne
- Project budget : CHF 437'719
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : Innosuisse (Innovationsprojekt / Projekt Nr. 50775.1 IP-SBM)
- Project partner : abilicor GmbH, NOVO Business Consultants AG, Keller Unternehmensberatung AG, Kurklinik Eden AG, Alterszentrum Sumiswald AG
- Contact person : Paul Schmitter
Description
The Innosuisse project, Digital Competence for Healthcare (DC4HC), aims to develop a digital platform that will support Swiss healthcare institutions in their digital transformation efforts. In particular, the focus of DC4HC is on the non-medical support services. A state-of-the-art digital maturity model framework based on scientific methods will be developed, allowing healthcare institutions to assess and benchmark the digital maturity of their non-medical support services. Using machine learning (ML), the platform will be able to automatically provide strategic, tactical and operational options for taking action. With this information and the data obtained, healthcare institutions will be able to create digitalization projects, roadmaps and master plans, in addition to forming strategic partnerships. While existing benchmarks retrospectively compare and interpret data, the ML-driven digital maturity assessment on the DC4HC platform aims to provide suggestions for possible solutions, offering organizations a predictable future-oriented approach for their digital transformation project. Furthermore, throughout their digital transformation journey, the healthcare institutions will be able to continuously re-evaluate their digital maturity and benchmark their progress. This additional information will also be used to further improve the ML-algorithms, providing more precise digital transformation options. The platform is developed by an interdisciplinary consortium consisting of a Swiss startup, two consulting companies with expertise in healthcare and facility management, four healthcare institutions and two universities.
Publications
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Schmitter, Paul; Gatziu Grivas, Stella,
2023.
Die Messung des digitalen Reifegrads.
Clinicum.
2023(3), pp. 58-59.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28509
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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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Kirecci, Ilyas; Schmitter, Paul; Hanne, Thomas; Gachnang, Philipp; Gatziu Grivas, Stella,
2022.
In:
15. Internationaler Facility Management Kongress, TU Wien, Österreich, 17.-18. November 2022.
Wien:
Technische Universität Wien.
pp. 9-26.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.34749/jfm.2022.4634
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2022.
Flexibilität durch Digitale Transformation.
In:
12. Fachkonferenz – Das Spital der Zukunft, Blezinger Healthcare, Luzern, Schweiz, 20.-22. Oktober 2022.
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Hanne, Thomas; Gachnang, Phillip; Gatziu Grivas, Stella; Kirecci, Ilyas; Schmitter, Paul,
2022.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning for maturity evaluation and model validation [paper].
In:
ICEME 2022 Proceeding.
13th International Conference on E-business, Management and Economics (ICEME), Beijing, China, 16-18 July 2022.
Association for Computing Machinery.
pp. 256-260.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3556089.3556102
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Gatziu Grivas, Stella; Schmitter, Paul; Kirecci, Ilyas,
2021.
Die ABILI-Methodik : Navigation bei der digitalen Transformation.
In:
FM Perspektiven: FM Innovationen in HC digital, Wädenswil, 26. November 2021.
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Schmitter, Paul; Kirecci, Ilyas,
2021.
Lost in Transformation : was sind die Grundlagen einer erfolgreichen digitalen Transformation?.
In:
11. Fachkonferenz – Das Spital der Zukunft, Blezinger Healthcare, Luzern, 21.-23. Oktober 2021.