Digital Health

How can the health sector benefit from IT progress? How can each of us use IT safely in the daily management of health and illness? How do we create acceptance for new applications and technologies – digital patient files, Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data?

Research at the BFH Centre focuses on people. Together with those affected – patients, relatives and professionals – practical solutions are developed, for example for dealing with patient information that brings concrete benefits in everyday life. This involves the targeted use of IT, which exploits opportunities and limits risks. The priority is a responsible approach to safety, self-determination and the physical and mental health of patients, relatives and professionals. The BFH Centre ensures that the use of IT meets the needs and demands of those involved and continuously evaluates the effects in its medical informatics laboratory and in practice.

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How are pharmacies supporting digitalisation in the healthcare sector?

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The situation in the healthcare sector is not rosy. Switzerland is facing major challenges; for example, the Swiss general practitioner and paediatrician…

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

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Functioning communication and smooth information flows play an important role in the complex setting of outpatient care. The CuraComm project…

Using Artificial Intelligence in Care – an ambivalent attitude

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The attitude of nurses towards the use of artificial intelligence in clinical practice remains ambivalent. It ranges from the hope that artificial…

Digitalisation – beneficial development or social exclusion?

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What opportunities and risks does digitalisation bring for people with mental illness and those affected by poverty? What is the role of social…

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

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Older people often move unsteadily and can easily fall and injure themselves. To prevent this, sensors could record and analyse movement patterns…

Sensor technology in healthcare – opportunities and challenges (Part 1)

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How can digital technologies be used in health care and prevention? Can technology relieve the burden on nursing staff? And what does it take…

All hope lies in stakeholder management

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Switzerland is limping behind in e-health - although individual institutions spend sums that the e-health pioneers can only dream of, even at…

What artificial intelligence is already doing in healthcare today

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AI could extend the healthy life years of many people. But technological progress does not make it into practical implementation. We are researching…

How business design principles are contributing to the digitisation of healthcare

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The digitisation of the healthcare system is strongly encouraged, but in practice it is often carried out in a careless and haphazard way. Successful…

How a 3D printer “cooks” food for sick children

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Malnutrition in hospitalised children is a major problem. That's why the Bern University of Applied Sciences, together with the Fribourg University…

How a digital coach helps with rehabilitation

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As part of the international eHealth project "CARE", the company Ateleris have developed a digital exercise coach that accompanies people as…

How Spitex is becoming all-round digital – a pilot project by Spitex and BFH

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Spitex Bern has launched a pilot project together with the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH): Over a period of four years, the Spitex…