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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“Digital Twin Society”-initiative works on Austrian digital health ecosystem

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The two Praevenire Digital Health Workshops 2019 and 2020 as well as the Digital Health Symposium 2021 in Stift Seitensteten (A) have resulted…

How augmented intelligence benefits the health sector – Praevenire Digital Health Workshop, Part 2

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The second part of the symposium at the Praevenire Health Days in Seitenstetten Abbey was about augmented intelligence as an essential element…

Praevenire Digital Health Symposion 2021 – Part 1

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At the Praevenire Health Days at the Seitenstetten Monastery, more than 40 experts spent a day engaged in discussions about the digitalisation…

Using data mining to track critical dietary patterns and lifestyle diseases

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Many chronic diseases are diet-related. A team at BFH Wirtschaft is pursuing a novel approach with multidisciplinary research: the scientists,…

Health care: Digital and individualised in the future

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Health care close to home has been a political goal for a long time. It is time to put the patient at the centre of the geography of care rather…

Digital Health – from the visionary to the practical

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On 17 May, the association Praevenire held its Digital Health Workshop for the third time as a participatory event - with over 40 experts and…

Steadily growing community for “inCLOUsiv”

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Digital exchange about mental health has been possible in Switzerland for the first time in a year with "inCLOUsiv". Together with the Pro Mente…

Two Key Learnings from the Health Crisis

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Covid-19 is strongly entangled with digital transformation, both in positive and negative ways. On the one hand, Covid-19 has boosted online…

Digital Health in the Covid-19 crisis (3) – what should now be improved

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During the lockdown, many countries had positive experiences with digital health (Atique et al., 2020). We should definitely continue the development…
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Digital Health in the Covid 19 Crisis (2) – It’s up to us what we make of the crisis

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Digital health is associated with many challenges that are not easy to overcome. We have to learn how to deal with them. A good example of the…

Digital Health in the Covid 19 Crisis (1) – There is no going back to the pre-crisis era

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The pandemic has hit us much more seriously than we would like to admit. It is high time to look reality in the eye, anticipate likely developments…

Health 2030 – Implementing Digital Health the Right Way

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How do we have to redesign health care so that people have more healthy years of life? Together with several hundred experts, the Austrian association…