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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Common sense and empathy – also needed in the age of digital health?
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution EN
Simulation-based strategy development to relieve the burden on Swiss emergency services
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution EN
June issue: “Digital health – moribund or healthy?!”
Digital Health EN
The Swiss eHealth Forum 2020: The digitisation of healthcare from EPD to HIS
Digital Health EN, Event report EN
Call for Paper: Digital Health – moribund or healthy?!
Digital Health EN
Japan: Ageing society needs technology and community development
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution EN
How a virtual platform promotes mental health – a project of BFH Gesundheit and Pro Mente Sana
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution EN
How IT in pharmacogenetics helps to increase drug safety
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution EN
How service providers are integrated into the electronic patient dossier
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution EN
August issue: Technology use in health care – the “missing link”
Digital Health EN
The Internet in institutions for the elderly
Digital Health EN, Professional Contribution EN