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Projects

Take a look at our current and past research and development projects. With our partners in industry, hospitals and universities, we promote the digitalisation of healthcare for the benefit of patients.

Reference Projects

  • Be(e)Chat: Errichtung und Betrieb eines generativen Sprachmodells

    Das Projekt Be(e)Chat zielt darauf ab, auf Basis eines lokal betriebenen generativen KI-basierten Modells (GenAI) in der Hochschullandschaft des Kantons Bern, sichere und datenschutzkonforme Anwendungen im...

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) PCDH / AI for Health
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke

  • PatientGuard

    The project investigates how to extract relevant information from clinical documents using LLM-based methods and evaluates the quality of these methods for the prediction and prevention of hospital-acquired...

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) PCDH / AI for Health
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke

  • Creating medical registry datasets from unstructured text

    The project aims to automate the data population process for clinical registries through the use of large language models (LLMs).

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) PCDH / AI for Health
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke

  • MindMate

    Seit Beginn der Covid-Pandemie nahmen psychische Probleme bei jungen Erwachsenen zu. Welche Anforderungen ein Chatbot-basiertes System erfüllen sollte, um die psychische Gesundheit von Studierenden zu...

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) PCDH / AI for Health
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke
      Dandan Pang

  • “SFK MindCare“ app for people with addiction disorders

    The “SFK MindCare“ app trains self-awareness in the event of an addiction disorder and shows ways to self-regulate. The app was created by the Suchtfachklinik of Zurich in collaboration with BFH.

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) PCDH / AI for Health
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke

  • Development of a Care@home continuing education programme

    The project aims to create a continuing education programme for Care@home to provide professionals with the skills required to understand and implement this care model in future.

    • Institute(s) Institut für Medizininformatik I4MI
      Nursing
      Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) Innovation in the Field of Digital Health
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke
      Manuela Grieser

  • SERO – Suicide Prevention Uniformly Regionally Organised

    Over 700,000 people worldwide take their own lives every year. In a bid to reduce suicides and suicide attempts, Lucerne Psychiatry launched the SERO project in collaboration with Health Promotion...

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) Innovation in the Field of Quality in the Health Sector
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke
      Caroline Daniela Gurtner-Zürcher

  • Medical sentiment analysis

    Information on the medical sentiment has been suggested for predicting risks of developing diseases and others. This project aims to study the opportunities of transformer-based models for analysing medical...

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke

  • Smaragd - NLP support for radiological reporting

    The goal of the Smaragd project is to digitalise the screening and reporting process in radiology. This innovative approach improves the service for patients and referring physicians and opens up global...

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke