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
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RobotCare – User experience in development of service robots for elderly care
Objectives of the project: Establish a systematic dialogue between the technology developers and researchers and the elderly/healthcare institution stakeholders (including medical, care, and service personnel, management, patients, and their families) in both regions and develop a suitable international community ...
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Stroke DynamiX
Stroke DynamiX explores data-driven stroke management using machine-learning techniques in a consortium of statistics researchers, translational enablers, and clinical partners. We implement statistical tools to dynamically model stroke epidemiologically and predict real-time sepsis onset in the clinic. ...
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ML-BCA: Machine Learning for Body Composition Analysis
The Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) of the ZHAW, together with the Cantonal Hospital Aarau, has laid the foundations for machine learning-supported body composition analysis on image files of the KSA within the framework of preliminary studies and has achieved promising results. The aim of this project is ...
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Digital Health Zurich – A practice lab for patient-centred clinical innovation
Digital Health Zurich researches digital health solutions in the hospital context and implements them efficiently and with practical relevance. Core topics are Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROMs), remote monitoring, integrated care and related technologies as well as empowerment of patients and staff. Our ...
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Design Living-Lab
Publications
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Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel; Flumini, Dandolo; Hauser, Helmut; Hunt, Kenneth J.; Luchsinger, Rolf H.; Scheidegger, Stephan,
2013.
Morphological control as guiding principle in physiology and medical applications.
In:
Int. Workshop on Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation, Ascona, 19 July 2013.
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2012.
Morphological computation and control : from robotics to implications on anticancer treatment.
In:
Research Colloquium 2012, Aarau, 8. November 2012.
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.
