How can digital technologies be used in health care and prevention? Can technology relieve the burden on nursing staff? And what does it take for the technology to be accepted by patients and staff? Researchers at BFH Health are investigating these questions in an Innosuisse project. In a series of articles, they provide an insight […]
The digitisation of the healthcare system is strongly encouraged, but in practice it is often carried out in a careless and haphazard way. Successful transformation requires not only technical expertise in the healthcare sector, but also design expertise from the business world. The shortage of healthcare professionals has been shown to have a negative impact […]
The Digital Health innovation field at Bern University of Applied Sciences conducts research in the area of digitalisation and technologisation of healthcare with a focus on nursing. The aim is to generate perceptible added value for users in the collaboration between humans and machines. The technologisation and digitalisation of healthcare is omnipresent. Due to its […]
Robots can take over repetitive and monotonous tasks in the care of sick and elderly people and thus relieve the nursing staff. A Zurich-based company has developed the mobile assistant Lio. In an interview, CEO and company co-founder Michael Früh describes what Lio can already do, what it will be able to do in the […]
Digital tools such as apps on smartphones/tablets for care documentation or to remind patients to take their medication, as well as wearables for collecting and analysing health data, are just a few examples that show that digitalisation in healthcare is advancing inexorably (eHealth Suisse, 2018; Zentrum für Qualität in der Pflege [ZQP], 2019). Everyone is […]
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to analyse and understand data has gained momentum. AI began as early as the 1950s. However, AI is only really unfolding and improving its performance in recent years. The reason for this is improved computing power, access to large amounts of data, high storage capacity and […]
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