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Entries by Friederike J. S. Thilo

Technology Adoption in Care – What Are the Success Factors?(Part 3)

What conditions must be met for nurses to adopt technology, integrate it into their daily routines, and use it consistently? Researchers at BFH Health explored this question as part of an Innosuisse project named RAMOS. In a three-part series of articles, the research team provides insights into topics such as data utilisation, process design and […]

Care@home: Core Competencies for Home-Based Treatment

Care@home is a care model where patients with acute illnesses are treated in their home environment. This approach presents healthcare professionals with new challenges and requires special competencies. Healthcare is facing a paradigm shift: Care@home, the treatment of patients with acute illnesses in their own homes, is gaining increasing importance [1] . In the psychiatric […]

Focus on external hospital care: identifying communication barriers with mapping methods

Functioning communication and smooth information flows play an important role in the complex setting of outpatient care. The CuraComm project is investigating where communication hurdles arise and how these could be overcome in the future. This article shows how the use of the visualisation technique “mapping” can be used to identify communication hurdles in a […]

Sensor Technology in Health Care – Sensor Data and Algorithms (Part 2)

Older people often move unsteadily and can easily fall and injure themselves. To prevent this, sensors could record and analyse movement patterns and warn of risks. Researchers in the Digital Health innovation field at the Bern University of Applied Sciences are investigating this. Part 1 dealt with the opportunities and challenges of the technology; in […]