Projects

2024 - 2024

Implementation of a Sensor Data Analysis Pipeline

2024 - 2024

Innovations in Digital Health Interventions

2024 - 2024

Public trust in a Swiss health data space

2024 - 2024

Health Innovathon

Join us on a transformative journey at our DSI Health Innovathon, where students, DSI Health community members, and USZ experts

2023 - 2024

Collaborative design for remote monitoring tools

2023 - 2024

DSI Meets USZ

2023 - 2026

The role of trust in European health data sharing policies

Health data is the blood of health systems, and the COVID -19 pandemic vividly showcased that up-to-date data is key to shape evidence-informed health policy, to organise and improve health systems,

2023 - 2023

Medical Knowledge In the Clinic and Out of the Clinic

An international workshop exploring the role of digitalisation on the communication of medical knowledge in different knowledge domains and how medical knowledge obtained via digital tools

2022 - 2025

Trust in Electronic Health Records

The successful integration of electronic health records in healthcare leads to improved care, increased health system effectiveness, higher health care efficiency, and much more.

2022 - 2025

Vertrauen in elektronische Gesundheitsakten

Die erfolgreiche Integration von elektronischen Gesundheitsakten im Gesundheitswesen führt unter anderem zu verbesserter Versorgung und Effektivität. Für eine erfolgreiche Einführung von elektronisch

2022 - 2022

DSI-Approach: How to Design A Good Research Question for Projects with Digital Unstructured Data

One of the most crucial but at the same time underappreciated steps in research is to define a good hypothesis and research question. This task becomes even more challenging when unstructured data...

2016 - 2021

AutoDISCERN: Using AI to assist patients in assessing health web page quality

Developing an AI system to evaluate the quality of online health information.

2020 - 2020

Large-Scale Literature-Based Entity Recognition for COVID-19

Efficient and reliable methods for entity recognition that can be applied to any medical publications about Covid-19.

2020 - 2021

What is the proportion of robots in Tweets? – BOTS

How many bots influence the public conversation in Twitter? Bots in social media can influence public conversation and discourse on public health topics.

2021 - present

DIPEx: Database of Individual Patient Experiences

The Swiss Database of Individual Patient Experiences provides a systematic and methodologically collection of individual interviews about real-life experiences with health issues as Alzheimer diseases

2021 - 2022

Barriers to Physical Activity in People With MS (BarKA-MS)

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a both severe and highly heterogeneous chronic health condition. Tailored treatment is therefore key to optimally support persons with MS. Daily-life symptomatology of MS di

2021 - 2021

Bringing together pandemic outbreak data and pandemic narratives in newspapers – a pilot study in the canton of Bern, 1918/1919

The spread of a pandemic and the narratives about an ongoing pandemic are not independent from each other. In this pilot project, we are bringing together outbreak data and text information from newsp

2020 - 2020

Creating an interactive geovisualisation of the spread of the Spanish Flu in Bern, 1918/1919

Past pandemic experiences in Switzerland are not sufficiently present among the population. Science communication via interactive geovisualisation tools might be part of the solution.

2021 - 2021

Enriching health research with unstructured patient data: opportunities and challenges

Most of the health-related data are unstructured data from different sources. The inclusion of unstructured data such as textual data can add depth to analysis as well as provide additional informatio

2020 - 2020

Multiple-path literature exploration in the context of COVID 19: LitExplorer

Developing a web tool for analysis of scientific literature to gain up-to-date information related to COVID-19.

2020 - 2022

PubliCo

How long are people in Switzerland willing to restrict their lives in order to contain the corona virus? Do people who like watching disaster movies react differently to precautionary measures than th

2020 - 2020

Social Media Mining for Covid-19

Analysis of COVID-19 related misinformation in social media (Twitter in particular).

2020 - 2022

The language of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Investigating official communication and its relations with collective and individual emotions

Are there societally impactful divergences in language styles and references to the disease and virus that are related to collective emotional responsive? This project aims at understanding the lingui

2020 - present

WISE-Project

The WISE-project applies novel methodology of linking unstructured data with structured that with the aim to provide novel insights into the complex problem of persistent orofacial pain and temporoman

2020 - present

The role of communication during the COVID 19 outbreak

What is the role of COVID19 related communication during the disease outbreak in Switzerland?