Prof. Dr. Kerstin Denecke

• Education and research

• Co-Lead Centre Health Technologies at BFH

• Associate editor of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

• Affiliate Member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies within the School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada

• Textmining, Natural language processing, mHealth, Conversational User Interface, Artificial Intelligence

• Bachelor Medical Informatics

• Clinical Studies

• Quality management in healthcare

• Seminar and Living Cases

• Clinical Apps for Tablets

• Participatory Design in Healthcare

• Textmining and information discovery in healthcare

• Knowledge management and medical ontologies

• Sentiment analysis

• Natural language processing

• Participatory health informatics

• Conversational User Interfaces / Chatbots

• Information Discovery in Medical Information Systems

• Participatory health informatics

• Mental health

• Safety and quality of digital therapeutics

• Patient centered Digital Health

• 2004-2007 Medical Informatics at ID GmbH Berlin
• 2007-2012 Research Associate at L3S Research Center / Leibniz University Hannover, Project lead of national and EU projects
• 2013-2015 Head of the Digital Patient Modeling group at University of Leipzig
• Since August 2015 Professor of Medical Informatics at BFH
• Since 2020 Co-Lead BFH Centre Health Technologies
• Chair IMIA Working Group Participatory Health and Social Media
• Since 2021 Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
• Since 2023 Co-Lead Institute Patient-centered Digital Health
• Since 2023 Co-Lead Institute Patient-centered Digital Health
• Since 2023 Co-Lead Institute Patient-centered Digital Health
• Since 2023 Co-Lead Institute Patient-centered Digital Health

• 2022 Research visit University of Victoria, Canada
• 2019 Research visit University of Auckland, New Zealand

• 2000-2004 Diploma studies in Computer Science and Medical Informatics Technische Universität Braunschweig
• 2004-2008 Doctoral studies (Dr. rer. net.) Technische Universität Braunschweig
• 2011-2012 Diploma studies Journalism (Dipl. Journalist) Freie Journalistenschule Berlin
• 2021 Bachelor of Music (BA mus.) Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle / Saale

• A Chatbot for Self-Anamnesis with an Example in Music Therapy (Hasler Foundation, 2017-18)

• New Approaches in Information Extraction (Partner ID Suisse AG, 2016-17)

• Emotion Analyzer (Research Visit funded by SNF)

• Relevance of Semantic Enrichment for Clinical Event Prediction (Hasler Foundation, 2019-20)

• Implementation of a search algorithm based on Deep Learning (Partner: ID Suisse AG, 2017- 2019)

• Development of an Evaluation Framework for Conversational Agents in Healthcare (Research Visit funded by SNF)

• Denecke, K., & May, R. (2023). Developing a Technical-oriented Taxonomy to Define Archetypes of Conversational Agents in Healthcare: Systematic Review and Cluster Analysis (Vol. 25). https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.18512

• Denecke, K., May, R., Borycki, E. M., & Kushniruk, A. W. (2023). Digital health as an enabler for hospital@home: A rising trend or just a vision? (Vol. 11, Issue 113779). Frontiers Research Foundation. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.18857

• Denecke, K., Rivera-Romero, O., Petersen, C., Benham-Hutchins, M., Cabrer, M., Davies, S., Grainger, R., Hussein, R., Campos, G. L., Martin-Sanchez, F. J., McKillop, M., Merolli, M., Miron-Shatz, T., Trigo, J. D., Wright, G., Wynn, R., Hullin, C., & Gabarron, E. (2023). Defining and Scoping Participatory Health Informatics - An eDelphi Study (Vol. 62, Issue 03/04). Georg Thieme Verlag. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.18858

• Denecke, K. (2023). Towards Safe Conversational Agents in Healthcare (M. Hägglund, M. Blusi, S. Bonacina, L. Nilsson, I. Cort Madsen, S. Pelayo, A. Moen, A. Benis, L. Lindsköld, & P. Gallos, Eds.; Vol. 302). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19234

• Denecke, K., von Kaenel, F., Miletic, M., Fernández-Llatas, C., Ibañez-Sánchez, G., Valero-Ramón, Z., Martînez-Millana, A., Segura, M., & Rivera Romero, O. (2023). How to Design Successful Participatory Design Workshops for Digital Health Solutions? (M. Hägglund, M. Blusi, S. Bonacina, L. Nilsson, I. Cort Madsen, S. Pelayo, A. Moen, A. Benis, L. Lindsköld, & P. Gallos, Eds.; Vol. 302). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19237

• Gabarron, E., Dorronzoro, E., Reichenpfader, D., & Denecke, K. (2023). What Do Autistic People Discuss on Twitter? An Approach Using BERTopic Modelling (M. Hägglund, M. Blusi, S. Bonacina, L. Nilsson, I. Cort Madsen, S. Pelayo, A. Moen, A. Benis, L. Lindsköld, & P. Gallos, Eds.; Vol. 302). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19236

• Larbi, D., Wynn, R., Årsand, E., Denecke, K., Zanaboni, P., & Gabarron, E. (2023). Exploring Obese Adults’ Preferences for a Physical Activity Chatbot: Qualitative Study (M. Hägglund, M. Blusi, S. Bonacina, L. Nilsson, I. Cort Madsen, S. Pelayo, A. Moen, A. Benis, L. Lindsköld, & P. Gallos, Eds.; Vol. 302). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19235

• Denecke, K. (2023). Framework for Guiding the Development of High-Quality Conversational Agents in Healthcare (Vol. 11, Issue 8). MDPI. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19238

• Denecke, K., Cihoric, N., & Reichenpfader, D. (2023). Designing a Digital Medical Interview Assistant for Radiology (B. Pfeiffer, G. Schreier, M. Baumgartner, & D. Hayn, Eds.; Vol. 301). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19224

• Denecke, K., Tiebel, J., & Meier, J. (2023). How Does Shortage of Health IT Professionals Impact on the Digital Health Transformation? (B. Pfeiffer, G. Schreier, M. Baumgartner, & D. Hayn, Eds.; Vol. 301). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19225

• Schmid, D. S., Moser, D. S., & Denecke, K. (2023). Fading Fatigue – A Self-Management App for Supporting Long-COVID Patients with Fatigue (B. Pfeiffer, G. Schreier, M. Baumgartner, & D. Hayn, Eds.; Vol. 301). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19226

• Denecke, K., & May, R. (2023). Investigating conversational agents in healthcare: Application of a technical-oriented taxonomy (Vol. 219). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19018

• Denecke, K., & Reichenpfader, D. (2023). Sentiment analysis of clinical narratives: A scoping review (Vol. 140). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19027

• Reichenpfader, D., Müller, H., & Denecke, K. (2023). Large language model-based information extraction from free-text radiology reports: a scoping review protocol (Vol. 13, Issue 12). BMJ. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.20687

• Denecke, K., Glauser, R. P., & Reichenpfader, D. (2023). Assessing the Potential and Risks of AI-Based Tools in Higher Education: Results from an eSurvey and SWOT Analysis (Vol. 2, Issue 4). https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.20627

• Rivera-Romero, O., Gabarron, E., Ropero, J., & Denecke, K. (2023). Designing Personalised mHealth solutions: An overview (Vol. 146). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19989

• Abd-alrazaq, A., Abuelezz, I., Al-Jafar, E., Denecke, K., Househ, M., Aziz, S., Ahmed, A., Aljaafreh, A., AlSaad, R., & Sheikh, J. (2023). The performance of serious games for enhancing attention in cognitively impaired older adults (Vol. 6, Issue 1). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19600

• Denecke, Kerstin (2023). How to Design Successful Conversations in Conversational Agents in Healthcare? In: Stephanidis, Constantine; Antona, Margherita; Ntoa, Stavroula; Salvendy, Gavriel (eds.) HCI International 2023 Posters 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 23–28, 2023, Proceedings, Part I. Communications in Computer and Information Science: Vol. 1832 (pp. 39-45). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland 10.1007/978-3-031-35989-7_5 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35989-7_5>

• Denecke, K. (2023). Towards Safe Conversational Agents in Healthcare (M. Hägglund, M. Blusi, S. Bonacina, L. Nilsson, I. Cort Madsen, S. Pelayo, A. Moen, A. Benis, L. Lindsköld, & P. Gallos, Eds.; Vol. 302). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19234

• Denecke, Kerstin (2023). Sentiment Analysis in the Medical Domain Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-031-30187-2 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30187-2>

• Bertschinger, S., Fenner, L., & Denecke, K. (2023). Feasibility of Cough Detection and Classification Using Artificial Intelligence in an Ambulatory Setting with a Ceiling Mounted Microphone. IEEE 36th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) 2023. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19670

• Denecke, K. (2023). Potential and pitfalls of conversational agents in health care (Vol. 9, Issue 1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.20481

• Denecke, K., May, R., Gabarron, E., & Lopez-Campos, G. H. (2023). Assessing the Potential Risks of Digital Therapeutics (DTX): The DTX Risk Assessment Canvas (Vol. 13, Issue 10). MDPI. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.20215

• Denecke, K., May, R., & Rivera Romero, O. (2023). How Can Transformer Models Shape Future Healthcare: A Qualitative Study (M. Giacomini, Ed.; Vol. 309). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.20254

• Thilo, F. J. S., Haldemann, A., Denecke, K., von Kaenel, F., Olalia, L., & Kaufmann, B. (2022). Mit Bildern die Sprachbarriere überwinden. Berner Fachhochschule, Wirtschaft. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.18265

• Denecke, K., & Baudoin, C. R. (2022). A Review of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Transformed Health Ecosystems (Vol. 9). Frontiers Media. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17204

• Denecke, K., & May, R. (2022). Usability Assessment of Conversational Agents in Healthcare: A Literature Review (B. Séroussi, F. Dhombres, C. Grouin, J.-D. Liebe, S. Pelayo, A. Pinna, B. Rance, L. Sacchi, A. Ugon, A. Benis, & P. Gallos, Eds.; Vol. 294). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17018

• Kaufmann, B. (2022). Addressing Communication Challenges in Healthcare. SHS Public. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17196

• Denecke, K., Schmid, N., & Nüssli, S. (2022). Implementation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in e–Mental Health Apps: Literature Review (Vol. 24, Issue 3). International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, PubMed Central. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.16708

• Denecke, K., Nüssli, S., & Lehmann, M. (2022). Tour de Suisse – eine Reise durch die Medizininformatik-Landschaft der Schweiz in 5 Tagen (Issue 1). Balmer AG. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17719

• Abd-alrazaq, A., AlSaad, R., Aziz, S., Ahmed, A., Denecke, K., Househ, M., Farooq, F., & Sheikh, J. (2023). Wearable artificial intelligence for anxiety and depression: Scoping review (Vol. 25, Issue 25). JMIR Publications. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.18390

• Denecke, K. (2022). Does Enrichment of Clinical Texts by Ontology Concepts Increases Classification Accuracy? (Vol. 290). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17102

• Denecke, K. (2022). Sprechende Bilder – kommunizieren, wenn gemeinsame Worte fehlen (Issue 2). Berner Fachhochschule BFH, Architektur, Holz und Bau/Technik und Informatik. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17185

• Denecke, K., Borycki, E. M., & Kushniruk, A. W. (2022). What Can We Learn from Quality Requirements in ISO/TS 82304-2 for Evaluating Conversational Agents in Healthcare? (B. Blobel, B. Yang, & M. Giacomini, Eds.; Vol. 299). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17905

• Denecke, K., & Lehmann, M. (2022). Eine spannende «Berliner Woche» voller Höhepunkte (Vol. 3, Issue 22). https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.18514

• Denecke, K., Lombardi, P., & Nairz, K. (2022). Digital Medical Interview Assistant for Radiology: Opportunities and Challenges (G. Schreier, B. Pfeifer, M. Baumgartner, & D. Hayn, Eds.; Vol. 293). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.16991

• Denecke, K., Thilo, F. J. S., Lueg, C., Olalia, L., Haldemann, A., & Kaufmann, B. (2022). Participatory Development of an Image-Based Communication Aid for Migrant Patients and Emergency Nurses (T. Bürkle, K. Denecke, J. Holm, & M. Sariyar, Eds.; Vol. 292). IOS Press BV. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.16979

• Deng, Y., & Denecke, K. (2022). Classification of user queries according to a hierarchical medical procedure encoding system using an ensemble classifier (Vol. 5, Issue 5). Frontiers Research Foundation. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17902

• Fuchshofer, K., Merz, C., Denecke, K., & Schuster-Amft, C. (2022). Intervention Platform for Action Observation and Motor Imagery Training After Stroke: Usability Test (T. Bürkle, K. Denecke, J. Holm, M. Sariyar, & M. Lehmann, Eds.; Vol. 292). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.16980

• Larbi, D., Denecke, K., & Gabarron, E. (2022). Usability Testing of a Social Media Chatbot for Increasing Physical Activity Behavior (Vol. 12, Issue 5). MDPI. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17104

• Rivera-Romero, O., Gabarron, E., Miron-Shatz, T., Petersen, C., & Denecke, K. (2022). Social Media, Digital Health Literacy, and Digital Ethics in the Light of Health Equity (Vol. 31, Issue 01). Thieme. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17105

• Selvasingham, S., & Denecke, K. (2022). Classifying Numbers from EEG Data – Which Neural Network Architecture Performs Best? (T. Bürkle, K. Denecke, J. Holm, M. Sariyar, & M. Lehmann, Eds.; Vol. 292). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.16981

• Jost, M., Affolter, P., Tobler, S., Lauener, R., Filliger, R., Denecke, K., Schmidhauser, A., Bachmann, E., Näher, T., & Meier, S. (2022). Spirit. 25 Jahre jung – BFH bewegt (Issue 2). Berner Fachhochschule BFH, Architektur, Holz und Bau/Technik und Informatik. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17181

• Zgraggen, C. R., Kunz, S. B., & Denecke, K. (2021). Crowdsourcing for Creating a Dataset for Training a Medication Chatbot (Vol. 281). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.14926

• Uhr, V., Gauch, M. T., & Denecke, K. (2021). Operations Management in Ambulatory Care in Switzerland (Vol. 279). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.14869

• Romao, P., Neuenschwander, S., Denecke, K., & Nüssli, S. (2021). Digital Health Intervention to Support Refugees in Switzerland (Vol. 279). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.14868

• Gashi, F., Regli, S. F., May, R., Tschopp, P., & Denecke, K. (2021). Developing Intelligent Interviewers to Collect the Medical History: Lessons Learned and Guidelines (Vol. 279). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.14865

• Gabarron, E., Rivera-Romero, O., Miron-Shatz, T., Grainger, R., & Denecke, K. (2021). Role of Participatory Health Informatics in Detecting and Managing Pandemics: Literature Review (Vol. 30, Issue 01). Thieme. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.14784

• Denecke, K., Gabarron, E., Petersen, C., & Merolli, M. (2021). Defining participatory health informatics – a scoping review (Vol. 46, Issue 3). Taylor & Francis online. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.14466

• Denecke, K., & Gabarron, E. (2021). How Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Look Like in the Future? (Vol. 281). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.14927

• Denecke, K. (2021). What Characterizes Safety of Ambient Assisted Living Technologies? (Vol. 281). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.14925

• Abd-Alrazaq, A. A., Alajlani, M., Ali, N., Denecke, K., Bewick, B. M., & Househ, M. (2021). Patients’ perceptions and opinions about mental health chatbots: A scoping review (Preprint) (Vol. 23, Issue 1). https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.13155

• Fernandez-Luque, L., Kushniruk, A. W., Georgiou, A., Basu, A., Petersen, C., Ronquillo, C., Paton, C., Nøhr, C., Kuziemsky, C. E., Alhuwail, D., Skiba, D., Huesing, E., Gabarron, E., Borycki, E. M., Magrabi, F., Denecke, K., Peute, L. W. P., Topaz, M., Al-Shorbaji, N., … Zhu, X. (2020). Evidence-Based Health Informatics as the Foundation for the COVID-19 Response: A Joint Call for Action (Vol. 59, Issue 06). Thieme. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.14928

• May, Richard; Denecke, Kerstin (2021). Security, privacy, and healthcare-related conversational agents: a scoping review Informatics for Health and Social Care, 47(2), pp. 194-210. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/17538157.2021.1983578 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538157.2021.1983578>

• Kaufmann, B., Denecke, K., Thilo, F. J. S., Haldemann, A., Lueg, C., & Olalia, L. (2021). Can we do better than gesturing? Requirements for a digital communication aid to support non-verbal communication in paediatric emergency care. MedInfo 2021. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.15668

• Denecke, K., Abd-Alrazaq, A., Househ, M., & Warren, J. (2021). Evaluation Metrics for Health Chatbots: A Delphi Study (Vol. 60, Issue 05/06). Thieme. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.15682

• Rivera-Romero, O., Stathis, K., Denecke, K., Gabarrón, E., Petersen, C., Househ, M., Merolli, M., & Mayer, M. Á. (2020). Ethical Considerations for Participatory Health through Social Media: Healthcare
  Workforce and Policy Maker Perspectives (Vol. 29, Issue 01). Thieme. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.11587

• Meier, L., Bauer, J. G., & Denecke, K. (2020). Speech-based Documentation in Emergency Medical Services with the Electronic Language Interface for Ambulance Services. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.14501

• May, R., & Denecke, K. (2020). Extending Patient Education with CLAIRE: An Interactive Virtual Reality and Voice User Interface Application (Vol. 12315). Springer. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.13154

• Denecke, K., Schneider, C. L., Hertenstein, E., & Nissen, C. (2020). SLEEPexpert App – A Mobile Application to Support Insomnia Treatment for Patients with Severe Psychiatric Disorders (Vol. 275). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.13603

• Denecke, K., May, R., Pöpel, A., & Lutz Hochreutener, S. (2020). Can a chatbot increase the motivation to provide personal health information? (Vol. 273). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.13156

• Christen, O. M., Mösching, Y., Müller, P., Denecke, K., & Nüssli, S. (2020). Dashboard Visualization of Information for Emergency Medical Services (Vol. 275). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.13602

• Abd-Alrazaq, A., Safi, Z., Alajlani, M., Warren, J., Househ, M., & Denecke, K. (2020). Technical Metrics Used to Evaluate Health Care Chatbots: Scoping Review (Vol. 22, Issue 6). JMIR. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.13153

• Denecke, K., Vaaheesan, S., & Arulnathan, A. (2020). A Mental Health Chatbot for Regulating Emotions (SERMO) - Concept and Usability Test (Vol. 14, Issue 8). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.11486

• Denecke, K. (2020). Biomedical Standards and Open Health Data. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.11484

• Gabarron, E., Larbi, D., Denecke, K., & Årsand, E. (2020). What Do We Know About the Use of Chatbots for Public Health? (Vol. 270). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.13150

• Denecke, K., & Warren, J. (2020). How to Evaluate Health Applications with Conversational User Interface? (Vol. 270). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.13148

• Denecke, K., Meier, L., Bauer, J. G., Bender, M., & Lueg, C. (2020). Information Capturing in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medical Settings (EMS) (Vol. 270). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.13149

• Reichenpfader, D., Glauser, R. P., Dugas, M., & Denecke, K. (2020). Assessing and Improving the Usability of the Medical Data Models Portal (Vol. 271). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.13152

• Nüssli, S., Schmidt, T., & Denecke, K. (2020). How to Motivate Children with Severe Disabilities to Adhere to Their Therapy? (Vol. 271). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.13151

• Strickler, M., Zbinden, C., Saccilotto, R., & Denecke, K. (2019). A Concept for a Data Dictionary System Supporting for Clinical Research (Vol. 258). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9006

• Möri, N., Bürki, J., de Oliveira Matos, P., Düllmann, P., Fricker, G., Gehri, Y., Glauser, R. P., Gund, Y., Haller, C., Kilchherr, S., Landolt, A., Leuenberger, L., Lüscher, L., Müller, N., Schwarz, M., Sinnappah, T., Uthayathas, G., & Drewlow, J. (2019). Does eHealth Literacy Impact Patients’ Opinion on the EHR? (K. Denecke, Ed.; Vol. 259). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9021

• Kyburz, P., Gfeller, S., Bürkle, T., & Denecke, K. (2019). Exchanging Appointment Data Among Healthcare Institutions (Vol. 260). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9014

• Hess, G. I., Fricker, G., & Denecke, K. (2019). Improving and Evaluating eMMA’s Communication Skills: A Chatbot for Managing Medication (Vol. 259). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9011

• Deng, Y., Sander, A., Faulstich, L., & Denecke, K. (2019). Towards automatic encoding of medical procedures using convolutional neural networks and autoencoders (Vol. 93). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.6772

• Deng, Y., Dolog, P., Gass, J.-M., & Denecke, K. (2019). Obesity Entity Extraction from Real Outpatient Records: When Learning-Based Methods Meet Small Imbalanced Medical Data Sets. 2019 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9020

• Denecke, K., & van Harmelen, F. (2019). Recent advances in extracting and processing rich semantics from medical texts (Vol. 93). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.8549

• Denecke, K., Tschanz, M., Dorner, T. L., & May, R. (2019). Intelligent Conversational Agents in Healthcare: Hype or Hope? (Vol. 259). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9008

• Denecke, Kerstin; Nüssli, Stephan (2019). Das digitalisierte Spital von übermorgen Competence, 5, pp. 12-13. Jean Frey AG

• Denecke, K., Jolo, P., Sevinc, B., & Nüssli, S. (2019). Creating Individualized Education Material for Diabetes Patients Using the eDiabetes Platform (Vol. 260). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9015

• Denecke, K., Hochreutener, S., Pöpel, A., & May, R. (2019). Self-Anamnesis with a Conversational User Interface: Concept and Usability Study (Vol. 57, Issue 05/06). Thieme. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9022

• Denecke, K., Bignens, S., Bürkle, T., Kim, S.-I., Lehmann, M., Nüssli, S., Sariyar, M., & Holm, J. (2019). Elisabeth Brönnimann und ihr Weg durch das Gesundheitssystem – Digitale Transformation aus Patientensicht. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9013

• Denecke, K. (2019). Von Clustern und differenzierter Dissonanz: Die Kompositionen von Hans Eugen Frischknecht (Issue 6). https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.13157

• Denecke, K. (2019). Schweizer Orgelbau und Winddynamik (Vol. 67, Issue 2). Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde e.V. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9024

• Arulnathan, A., Vaaheesan, S., & Denecke, K. (2019). A Mobile Application for Self-monitoring for Patients with Heart Failure (Vol. 259). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9009

• Denecke, Kerstin; Gabarron, Elia; Grainger, Rebecca; Konstantinidis, Stathis Th; Lau, Annie; Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Miron-Shatz, Talya; Merolli, Mark (2019). Artificial Intelligence for Participatory Health: Applications, Impact, and Future Implications Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 28(1), pp. 165-173. Thieme 10.1055/s-0039-1677902 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1677902>

• Hamidi, M., Mahendran, P., & Denecke, K. (2019). Towards a Digital Lean Hospital: Concept for a Digital Patient Board and Its Integration with a Hospital Information System. (Vol. 264). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9017

• Denecke, K., May, R., & Deng, Y. (2019). Towards Emotion-Sensitive Conversational User Interfaces in Healthcare Applications (Vol. 264). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9016

• Schmidt, T., Kocher, D. R., Mahendran, P., & Denecke, K. (2019). Dynamic Pocket Card for Implementing ISBAR in Shift Handover Communication. (Vol. 267). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9018

• Nedovic, T., Umeri-Sali, N., & Denecke, K. (2019). Supporting Blind and Visually Impaired Persons in Managing Their Medication. (Vol. 267). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9019

• Adeoye, O. O., Tom-Aba, D., Ameh, C. A., Ojo, O. E., Ilori, E. A., Gidado, S. O., Waziri, E. N., Nguku, P. M., Mall, S., Denecke, K., Lamshoeft, M., Schwarz, N. G., Krause, G., & Poggensee, G. (2017). Implementing Surveillance and Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) for Public Health in West Africa-Lessons Learnt and Future Direction (Vol. 22, Issue 2). Sciencedomain International. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.5815

• Tom-Aba, D., Toikkanen, S. E., Glöckner, S., Adeoye, O., Mall, S., Fähnrich, C., Denecke, K., Benzler, J., Kirchner, G., Schwarz, N., Poggensee, G., Silenou, B. C., Ameh, C. A., Nguku, P., Olubunmi, O., Ihekweazu, C., & Krause, G. (2018). User Evaluation Indicates High Quality of the Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) After Field Deployment in Nigeria in 2015 and 2018 (Vol. 253). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9187

• Schmocker, K. S., Zwahlen, F. S., & Denecke, K. (2018). A Mobile App for Simplifying Life With Diabetes : Technical Description and Usability Study of GlucoMan (Vol. 3, Issue 1). JMIR Publications. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.6205

• Perscheid, C., Benzler, J., Hermann, C., Janke, M., Moyer, D., Laedtke, T., Adeoye, O., Denecke, K., Kirchner, G., Beermann, S., Schwarz, N., Tom-Aba, D., & Krause, G. (2018). Ebola Outbreak Containment: Real-Time Task and Resource Coordination With SORMAS (Vol. 5). https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9189

• Kropf, S., Uciteli, A., Schierle, K., Krücken, P., Denecke, K., & Herre, H. (2018). Querying archetype-based EHRs by search ontology-based XPath engineering (Vol. 9, Issue 1). BioMed Central. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.6172

• Deng, Y., Bürkle, T., Holm, J., Zetz, E., & Denecke, K. (2018). Last Mile Towards Efficient Healthcare Delivery in Switzerland: eHealth Enabled Applications Could Speed Up the Care Process (Vol. 247). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.6669

• Denecke, K., Lutz Hochreutener, S., Pöpel, A., & May, R. (2018). Talking to Ana : A Mobile Self-Anamnesis Application with Conversational User Interface. 2018 International Conference on Digital Health. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.7582

• Denecke, K., Kyburz, P., Gfeller, S., Deng, Y., & Bürkle, T. (2018). A Concept for Improving Cross-Sector Care by a Mobile Patient Navigator App (Vol. 255). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.6667

• Denecke, K., Dittli, P. A., Kanagarasa, N., & Nüssli, S. (2018). Facilitating the Information Exchange Using a Modular Electronic Discharge Summary (Vol. 248). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.6668

• Bürkle, T., Denecke, K., & Lehmann, M. (2018). conhIT: eHealth - die Spahn-ung steigt! (Vol. 3, Issue 18). https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.5565

• Tschanz, Mauro; Dorner, Tim Lucas; Holm, Jürgen; Denecke, Kerstin (2018). Using eMMA to manage medication Computer, 51(8), pp. 18-25. IEEE 10.1109/MC.2018.3191254 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2018.3191254>

• Kropf, S., Uciteli, A., Krücken, P., Denecke, K., & Herre, H. (2016). Querying standardized EHRs by a Search Ontology XML extension (SOX). 7th Workshop of the GI Workgroup OBML. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.7509

• Hors-Fraile, S., Atique, S., Mayer, M. A., Denecke, K., Merolli, M., & Househ, M. (2016). The Unintended Consequences of Social Media in Healthcare : New Problems and New Solutions (Vol. 2016). Thieme. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.6674

• Deng, Y., Gaebel, J., & Denecke, K. (2016). Patient Centered Event Representation for the Treatment of Multifactorial Diseases: Current Progress and Challenges. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics; 282; 110-114. doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-678-1-110. IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.7654

• Deng, Y., & Denecke, K. (2016). Aspect-Oriented Visualization of the Health Status: An Example in Treatment of Cervical Spine Defect (Vol. 228). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.7655

• Denecke, K., Deng, Y., & Declerck, T. (2016). Extraction and Processing of Rich Semantics from Medical Texts. RichMedSem 2016. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.7706

• Denecke, Kerstin; Atique, Suleman (2016). Social Media and Health crisis Communication During Epidemics In: Syed-Abdul, Shabbir (ed.) Participatory Health through Social Media (pp. 42-66). Amsterdam: Elsevier, Academic press 10.1016/B978-0-12-809269-9.00004-9 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809269-9.00004-9>

• Denecke, K. (2016). Automatic Analysis of Critical Incident Reports: Requirements and Use Cases (Vol. 223). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.7657

• Denecke, K. (2016). Integrating Social Media and Mobile Sensor Data for Clinical Decision Support: Concept and Requirements (Vol. 225). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.7656

• Tschanz, M., Dorner, T. L., & Denecke, K. (2017). eMedication Meets eHealth with the Electronic Medication Management Assistant (eMMA). (Vol. 236). https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.5831

• Murbach, M., Martin, S., Denecke, K., & Nüssli, S. (2017). A First Standardized Swiss Electronic Maternity Record (Vol. 236). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.5830

• Kropf, Stefan; Krücken, Peter; Müller, Wolf; Denecke, Kerstin (2017). Structuring Legacy Pathology Reports by openEHR Archetypes to Enable Semantic Querying Methods of Information in Medicine, 56(3), pp. 230-237. 10.3414/ME16-01-0073 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME16-01-0073>

• Kropf, S., Chalopin, C., Lindner, D., & Denecke, K. (2017). Domain Modeling and Application Development of an Archetype- and XML-based EHRS : Practical Experiences and Lessons Learnt. (Vol. 8, Issue 2). PubMed Central. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.6151

• Deng, Y., Faulstich, L., & Denecke, K. (2017). Concept Embedding for Relevance Detection of Search Queries Regarding CHOP. (Vol. 245). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.9178

• Deng, Yihan; Denecke, Kerstin (2017). Patient Records Retrieval System for Integrated Care in Treatment of Cervical Spine Defects In: Wang, Fusheng; Yao, Lixia; Luo, Gang (eds.) Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare. Second International Workshop, DMAH 2016, Held at VLDB 2016, New Delhi, India, September 9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers 10186 (pp. 10-25). Springer 10.1007/978-3-319-57741-8_2 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57741-8_2>

• Deng, Yihan; Bürkle, Thomas; Denecke, Kerstin (2017). Who should be empowered for an efficient first diagnosis?. Patient or general practitioner? In: 62. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik - Biometrie und Epidemiologie e. V. (GMDS). Oldenburg / Deutschland. 17.-21.09.2017.

• Denecke, K., Lehmann, M., & Holm, J. (2017). Wir sind (auch) Berliner! Studierende der Berner Fachhochschule durchforsteten die conhIT (Vol. 3/2017). https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.6863

• Denecke, K., Dorner, T. L., Iseli, R., Mele, S., Tschanz, M., Viehl, C. T., Lehmann, M., & Bürkle, T. (2017). A Mobile Cancer Follow-up Care Plan for Patient Empowerment (Vol. 8, Issue 3). https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.6152

• Denecke, K. (2017). A Mobile System for Music Anamnesis and Receptive Music Therapy in the Personal Home. (Vol. 245). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.5839

• Denecke, K. (2017). Concept-Based Retrieval from Critical Incident Reports (Vol. 236). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.5832

• Denecke, K. (2017). An ethical assessment model for digital disease detection technologies. (Vol. 13, Issue 16). BioMed Central. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.5678

• Bürkle, T., Denecke, K., Lehmann, M., Zetz, E., & Holm, J. (2017). Integrated Care Processes Designed for the Future Healthcare System. IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.5840

• Adeoye, O. O., Tom-Aba, D., Ameh, C. A., Ojo, O. E., Ilori, E. A., Gidado, S. O., Waziri, E. N., Nguku, P. M., Mall, S., Denecke, K., Lamshoeft, M., Schwarz, N. G., Krause, G., & Poggensee, G. (2017). Implementing Surveillance and Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) for Public Health in West Africa-Lessons Learnt and Future Direction (Vol. 22, Issue 2). Sciencedomain International. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.5815

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS)

• IMIA Working Group Participatory Health and Social Media

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Crowdsourcing for Creating a Dataset for Training a Medication Chatbot (Zgraggen, Kunz, Denecke)

• Tim Dorner, Mauro Tschanz Medikationsapp mit eHealth-Anbindung 2017

• Kaspar Schmocker, Fabian Zwahlen GlucoMan - Diabetes Management App 2017

• Sevinc Burcu, Patrick Jolo eDiabetesberatung 2018

• Nesljihan Umeri-Sali, Tanja Nedovic Mobiles Medikationsmanagement 2019

• Richard May Einsatz von Virtual Reality zur Steigerung der Gesundheitskompetenz 2019

• Massah Hamidi Patientenedukation 2019

• Hager Magdub Digitalisierung eines Flowboards zur Unterstützung des Lean Managements 2019

• Lea Meier, Jan Bauer Berührungslose Dokumentation im Rettungswesen 2019

• Jonathan Meier Telemonitoring von Herzinsuffizienzpatienten 2019

• Aaganya Arulnathan, Sayan Vaaheesan Emotionserkennung in therapeutischen Chats 2019

• Vinzenz Uhr, Marc Gauch Feinplanungstool für die Arztpraxis 2020

• Selina Gashi, Floriana Regli Chatbot zur Erhebung der Krankengeschichte 2021

• Sugeelan Selvasingham Klassifizierung von EEG-Daten mittels Deep Learning 2021

• Simon Bertschinger Feasibility of Cough Detection and Classification Using Artificial Intelligence 2022

• Denis Moser, Daniel Schmid Fading Fatigue 2.0 2022

• Yihan Deng PhD thesis: Medical text classification from clinical narratives in progress

• Dillys Larbi PhD thesis: A social media chatbot for increasing physical activity behaviour – the FysBot in progress

• Daniel Reichenpfader PhD thesis: NLP in radiology in progress

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