The attitude of nurses towards the use of artificial intelligence in clinical practice remains ambivalent. It ranges from the hope that artificial intelligence will revolutionise the profession to fear for their own jobs.

In view of the ongoing shortage of skilled labour, nurses* are exposed to a high workload 1. Not…

Start-ups drive innovation. Start-up expert Martin Murmann from BFH Wirtschaft analyses why older founders often pursue more risk-taking ideas and why a diverse team can be crucial to success. In the latest episode, he offers a deep insight into the world of start-ups.

It all usually starts with a groundbreaking idea,…

Anyone who has ever been undecided about whether to write "yes" or "no" on the ballot paper before a vote is in good company: a survey conducted as part of the "Demokratie Labor Basel" revealed that 61% of respondents find it difficult to form a clear opinion before voting at least "once in a while". And 42% have already…

On 1 September, Christian Geiger took up his professorship in Digital Government, Innovation and Transformation at Bern University of Applied Sciences. The long-standing Chief Digital Officer of the City of St. Gallen will be researching and teaching innovation in the public sector in future. In this interview, he talks…

Bias in AI is a major challenge of today’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The proof-of-concept technology developed in the Horizon Europe project BIAS addresses this problem. The first results were recently presented at the EWAF’23: European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness by BFH researchers in collaboration…