Health Tech Lunch - Sven Hirsch- “Digital Health – a vision comes to life”

The Axe Santé is organising a Health Tech Lunch on Wednesday, November 27th from 16:00 to 18:00 at Energypolis in Sion (room Aula).

Sven is a translational scientist, heading the center of Computational Health at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and is a passionate promoter of digitalization in health care.

He is a trained laser physicist in the field of computational health and holds a postgradual degree in audiovisual media (KHM). In his scientific work he combines statistical approaches like machine learning with mechanistic modelling to understand disease mechanisms and clinical pathways. He searches for new digital biomarkers from clinical images, time series signals, and patient data to improve diagnosis and care. In intracranial aneurysm research he contributed to the understanding of disease mechanisms and etiology by establishing image-derived factors and data-driven disease models.

The portfolio of the research center encompasses biosensor analysis and digital health solutions, medical data modelling, medical image analysis and biomedical simulation. The center embraces applied research questions and collaborates with clinicians, industry, and hospitals to deliver innovative digital health solutions and translate computational health research into clinical practice. He also directs the ZHAW digital health lab, an interdisciplinary platform that innovates patient-centered data-driven health care.

Digital Health is a highly interdisciplinary field with high promises for improving  the quality and performance of the healthcare system. Although we are now seeing an enormous push for these new technologies we also experience the challenges to translate these into real innovations. With all difficulties that the healthcare sector currently faces it is important to formulate positive future visions and offer viable ways to get there. The universities of applied sciences have an important role in formulating this vision and cooperating with the healthcare industry to make a vision come to life. 

I will present insights from the Innosuisse flagship project SHIFT where we promote the use of new forms of organisation, digital technologies and the networking of processes and data to transform the hospital continuously into an intelligent system. 

A second thought is the digital twin concept, which is a virtual representation that serves as the real-time digital counterpart of a physical object or process, picks up attention in healthcare. The presentation will highlight the practical applications and potential benefits of these developments for healthcare innovation.

Program :

• 16:00 am to 18:00 pm 

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