FM in Healthcare
Facility Management in Healthcare: highly complex and highly stimulating.
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Our research focal point “FM in Healthcare” focuses on stakeholder-centric management of non-medical support services in healthcare organisations.
Depending on the setting, we take part as a partner in a research project, as advisors in a service contract or we include students within student projects. Our procedures are holistic, interlinked and systematic with the goal to develop practice-oriented and applicable solutions.
Our Projects
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Cleaning Isolation rooms used by Covid-19 patients
The Institute for Facility Management (IFM), together with stakeholders from the healthcare and cleaning sectors has produced a series of training videos on cleaning the isolation rooms used by COVID-19 patients. To train cleaners on how to clean isolation rooms with COVID-19 patients and ensure their safety. This ...
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Data-driven decision support for intracranial aneurysms and hospital catering using Bayesian networks
Clinical decisions in medicine and management decisions in facility management are regularly made on the basis of little evidence or extrapolations and are also influenced by subjective and economic aspects. While data is generated exponentially in medicine due to increasing digitization, there is no framework for ...
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Determining the strategic need for action in the digitalization of hospitals on a normative, strategic and operational level
Increasing cost pressure and the required competitiveness are forcing Swiss hospitals to optimize their non-medical processes, in particular regarding efficiency and productivity. Digitalization introduces new opportunities for transforming business processes that meet future health policy requirements and support ...
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SmartCareNet
The players in the Swiss healthcare system are facing major challenges. Overall, they are experiencing a transformation of the care system in two ways: On the one hand, through a shift from a purely supply-oriented to a demand-oriented system, and on the other hand, through digitalisation and the associated ...
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Data analysis as a basis for the development of a KPI system for non-medical support services in hospitals
Our publications
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Merkle, Thorsten; Knaus, Dominik; Siegrist, Chantal,
2024.
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In:
Sigala, Marianna; Fang, Marcela; Yeark, Anastasia; Albrecht, Julia N.; Vorobjovas-Pinta, Oscar, eds.,
Case Based Research in Tourism, Travel, and Hospitality.
Singapore:
Springer.
pp. 179-192.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1891-7_10
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Merkle, Thorsten; Plüss, Till,
2024.
Organisationsformen des Facility Management in Schweizer Akutspitälern.
Wädenswil:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29640
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Diez, Karin; Rothe, Frank,
2023.
In:
13. Fachkonferenz – Das Spital der Zukunft, Blezinger Healthcare, Luzern, Schweiz, 19.-21. Oktober 2023.
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Merkle, Thorsten; Wrase, Isabelle,
2023.
Digitizing healthcare patient nutrition intake in Swiss hospitals [paper].
In:
Annual International CHRIE Summer Conference, Phoenix, USA, 19-21 July 2023.
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Gerber, Nicole; Merkle, Thorsten,
2023.
Individualisierte Verpflegung – ein Megatrend.
In:
8. Fachkonferenz – Das Pflegeheim der Zukunft, Blezinger Healthcare, Luzern, Schweiz, 22.-23. Juni 2023.
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