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.
Our vision
We firmly believe that through sustainable digital transformation, the healthcare system can be enhanced, leading to improved health and well-being for the population and all stakeholders.
Our mission
Our contribution to fostering intelligent digital transformation in the healthcare sector includes:
- Conducting application-oriented, interdisciplinary research and development while ensuring the transfer of knowledge and methods into both education and practical application.
- Connecting expertise from specialized research groups and establishing practical contacts across various domains, roles, and hierarchies.
- Cultivating synergies through collaborative network efforts, thereby serving as a unique hub for interdisciplinary, application-oriented excellence.
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.
The next Digital Health Lab Day will take place on Tuesday, 3rd September 2024 at the ZHAW School of Engineering in Winterthur. Join participants from healthcare, IT, management, health experts, startups und research, learn and discuss about recent developments in digital health.
Digital Health Lab Day 2024 - People, Technologies & Processes
Digital Health Lab Day 2023 - Digital Strategies for Future Healthcare
Digital Health Lab Day 2022 - Smart Healthcare & Digital Innovation
Digital Health Lab Day 2021 - Implementing Digital Health Innovations
Digital Health Lab Day 2020 - Digital Citizen-based Medicine
Digital Health Events
31.01.2024 - Digital Health Lab Webinar: Unveiling the Inner Workings of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT in Healthcare - A Grounded Look at Capabilities and Limitations | Václav Pechtor, ZHAW
09.11.2023 - Digital Health Lab Webinar: Digitale Kompetenzen von Pflegefachpersonen und Mediziner:innen – Sind sie bereit für die digitale Zukunft? | Prof. Dr. Alfred Angerer, ZHAW
19.10.2023 - Digital Health Lab Webinar: AI Leaders in Swiss Healthcare | Blaise Jacholkowski, Zühlke & Dr. Jens Haarmann, ZHAW
07.09.2023 - Digital Health Lab Webinar: ExerUP!: Design and evaluation of a digital exergame-based solution for an effective and attractive sports rehabilitation | Michelle Haas, ZHAW
Projects
Unfortunately, no list of projects can be displayed here at the moment. Until the list is available again, the project search on the ZHAW homepage can be used.
Publications
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Plüss, Till; Schmitter, Paul,
2024.
Smart Building im Gesundheitswesen : betriebliche Risiken und Anforderungen.
fmpro service.
2024(5), pp. 25-27.
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Sauerzopf, Lena; Spiess, Martina,
2024.
Empowering clinicians : an educational initiative to create a MOOC in rehabilitation technology [poster].
In:
6th Digital Health Lab Day, Winterthur, Switzerland, 3 September 2024.
Winterthur:
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
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Sandamirskaya, Yulia; Gerber, Nicole,
2024.
Robotik für Heime – was ist möglich, was nötig?.
In:
9. Fachkonferenz – Das Pflegeheim der Zukunft, Blezinger Healthcare, Interlaken, Schweiz, 20.-21. Juni 2024.
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2024.
In:
Robotics in Healthcare – current uses and future challenges, Zurich, Switzerland, 13 June 2024.
Available from: https://harmony-eu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/4_Robots-as-service-providers_Gerber-Diez.pdf
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Schmitter, Paul; Shahgholian, Azar; Tucker, Matthew,
2024.
Digital Transformation and Society.
3(4), pp. 395-409.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/DTS-10-2023-0098
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Jermain, Peter R.; Oswald, Martin; Langdun, Tenzin; Wright, Santana; Khan, Ashraf; Stadelmann, Thilo; Abdulkadir, Ahmed; Yaroslavsky, Ann N.,
2024.
Rapid optical cytology with deep learning-based cell segmentation for diagnosis of thyroid lesions [paper].
In:
Optica Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics 2024 (Translational, Microscopy, OCT, OTS, BRAIN).
Optica Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 7-10 April 2024.
Optica Publishing Group.
pp. MTu4A.5.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1364/MICROSCOPY.2024.MTu4A.5
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.
