In conjunction with the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOSTEC 2022
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Tracks for Digital Health Innovations in Germany - first lessons learnt in the field of Digital Health Applications
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Anne Geier
German Central Association for Digital Healthcare
Germany
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Brief Bio
Dr. Anne Sophie Geier has been the Managing Director of the German Digital Healthcare Association since October 2020. She is a pharmacist by training and completed her PhD in real-world evidence and outcomes research at WWU Münster and Harvard Medical School. In her previous career she worked in management consulting for a pharmaceutical company and as a team head for the early benefit assessment of new medicinal substances at the German National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds.
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What Can We Learn from Squid Game, Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad to Lower the Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health
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Tobias Kowatsch
University of Zurich, University of St. Gallen & ETH Zurich
Switzerland
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Brief Bio
Prof. Dr. Tobias Kowatsch is Associate Professor for Digital Health Interventions at the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich (UZH), and Director at the School of Medicine, University of St.Gallen (HSG). He is also the Scientific Director of the Centre for Digital Health Interventions (www.c4dhi.org), a joint initiative of UZH, HSG, and ETH Zurich. Moreover, Dr. Kowatsch is an advisor to the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (www.c4tbh.org) at Dartmouth, USA, and Lead Principal Investigator for Mobile Health Interventions within the Future Health Technologies Programme at the Singapore-?ETH Centre. In close collaboration with his interdisciplinary team and research partners, Tobias designs digital health interventions (“digital pills”) at the intersection of information systems research, computer science, and behavioral medicine. He helped initiate and participates in the ongoing development of MobileCoach (www.mobile-coach.eu), an open-source platform for ecological momentary assessments, health monitoring, and digital health interventions. He is also co-founder of the ETH Zurich and University of St.Gallen spin-off company Pathmate Technologies that creates and delivers digital clinical pathways. Tobias has a PhD in Management from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, a Master of Science in Business Information Systems from Saarland University, Germany and a Master of Computer Science in Media from Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany. He published his research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (JCCP), American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), JMIR mHealth and uHealth, Journal of Asthma & Allergy, Addictive Behaviors, Information Systems Journal (ISJ), and Computers in Human Behavior (CHB).
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SCOPE
Healthcare delivery undergoes a rapid change from traditional processes towards the use of digital health interventions and personalized medicine. On the one side, hospitals and health care providers introduce hospital information systems, electronic health records and telemedicine solutions for more efficient workflows within and beyond institutions. On the other side, patients may choose between a wide range of digital health applications provided by wearables and mobile phone applications supporting their self-management, health and well-being.
However, the question of how sustainable digital health implementation and diffusion can be successfully reached is not sufficiently solved yet. Our workshop seeks for submissions dealing with this question and especially the diffusion and adoption of digital health innovations. We also invite digital health innovations on an early stage of research that are challenging the scaling-up issue. We welcome research and theory papers as well as case studies and best practice examples. A particular focus is given on finding measures to ensure the actual implementation of innovative solutions. The workshop includes paper presentations, invited talks and open workshop parts for discussing innovative topics.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission:
December 6, 2021 (expired)
Authors Notification:
December 14, 2021 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
December 22, 2021 (expired)