Explore this year's workshops
A1 My Friend the AI – AI-based digital assistant supporting chronically ill children (DE) SW 224
Christian Weber, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, ZHAW
A2 Longevity Living Lab Insights and Project Opportunities (EN) SW 225
Alexandre Grutman, Gründer Association Avril
A3 Contactless patient monitoring in hospitals, nursing homes, and home care settings (technology, law, and ethics) (DE) SW 226
Dr. Federico Wadehn, Dr. Marc Kuhn, Institute for Signal Processing and Wireless Communications (ISC), ZHAW
A4 Swiss KIS: Digital Sovereignty in Healthcare (DE) SW 311
Maximilian Grimm, Swiss KIS (ETH Zürich, KSB), Dr. Philipp Ackermann, ZHAW School of Engineering
A5 How digital solutions make the leap from pilot project to everyday care (DE) SW 321
Danielle Spichiger, Cluster Manager Life Sciences at Business & Economic Development, Kanton Zürich, Corinne Spirig, COO digital health center bülach
A6: work in progress
A7: work in progress
Abstracts
| A1 | My Friend the AI – AI-based digital assistant supporting chronically ill children Digitalization is fundamentally transforming healthcare and confronting health professionals with new demands. Not least the Digital Health Report (Angerer & Berger, 2024) has shown that education, training, and continuing education in digital competencies is a key element for digital transformation. The workshop examines theoretical approaches and instruments for assessing, sustainably developing, and didactically conveying digital competencies. The focus is on interdisciplinary and integrative approaches and models. The aim is to provide participants with practical examples and impulses for implementing suitable strategies in their own professional or educational context, and to strengthen interprofessional exchange. | DE |
| A2 | Longevity Living Lab Insights and Project Opportunities Longevity Living Lab: Insights and Project Opportunities | EN |
| A3 | Contactless patient monitoring in hospitals, nursing homes, and home care settings (technology, law, and ethics) Contactless patient monitoring holds great potential in hospitals as well as in residential and nursing homes: it can relieve nursing staff and detect critical events such as falls or prolonged immobility at an early stage. Unlike wearables, which must be worn, charged, and regularly cleaned for hygienic reasons, contactless solutions promise continuous monitoring without additional effort for patients and staff. Conventional cameras, however, are sensitive from a data protection perspective—even with fully embedded processing—and are often met with rejection by those affected. Alternative imaging modalities such as time-of-flight or infrared sensors, and radar-based systems in particular, capture significantly fewer identifying features and therefore pose a lower biometric risk. In this workshop, we present various technologies for contactless patient monitoring, explain how they work, and discuss the associated ethical and data protection questions. | DE |
| A4 | Swiss KIS: Digital Sovereignty in Healthcare This interactive workshop invites participants to actively help shape the future Swiss KIS platform. Starting from a hospital-driven, in-house developed approach, we discuss how digital sovereignty can be translated into concrete, practice-ready solutions - solutions that strengthen care, enable innovation, and prevent healthcare from being weakened by vendor lock-in, opaque data management, and the profit logic of individual software corporations. Together with healthcare professionals, technology experts, and decision-makers, we will examine key assumptions, discuss architecture and governance questions, and sharpen concrete use cases. The aim is to bring together different perspectives, critically question existing models, and develop actionable impulses that feed directly into the next development steps of Swiss KIS. The results of the workshop may feed into a white paper or be published in an appropriate format. | DE |
| A5 | How digital solutions make the leap from pilot project to everyday care There is no shortage of digital solutions and innovative ideas for healthcare. The real challenge often begins when a promising idea needs to become part of everyday practice. Whether a solution can be successfully and sustainably integrated into care depends on much more than the technology itself. In this workshop, we will explore what it takes to successfully implement and further develop digital solutions in healthcare. Drawing on practical experience, we will examine key success factors and common barriers and connect them with the perspectives and questions of the participants. Particular attention will be given to the interplay between people, organisations and existing framework conditions, with participants invited to apply the insights to their own initiatives and projects. | DE |
| A6 | work in progress | |
| A7 | work in progress |
