Information technology is changing healthcare in numerous wide-ranging aspects, including significantly improving the overall quality of patient care and therefore helping to reduce limitations in people's daily lives. The Digital Pill reflects on how digital technologies can combat chronic diseases including diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular, respiratory and neurodegenerative diseases [...]
The vision of the MobileCoach platform is to create fully-automated digital interventions. Due to a modular and extendable structure as well as an architecture rooted in the logics and legal claims of open-source software, the MobileCoach lays a fruitful ground for digital interventions in several [...]
Digital Health Interventions show great potential in supporting health care systems with the globally increasing prevalence and economic costs of chronic diseases - the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. However, despite the availability of evidence-based DHIs, a substantial proportion of users does not adhere to [...]
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the leading causes of death and affects 251 million people worldwide. In the United States, the direct costs of COPD were estimated to be $32 billion, with indirect costs (e.g., incurred by lost working days) accounting for an additional [...]
Slow-paced breathing training is an effective method to strengthen cardiac functioning and psychological well-being. It thus addresses two of the most pressing global health challenges: chronic disease and mental illness. Slow-paced breathing training can be self-paced (e.g., during mindfulness meditation), externally-guided by following acoustic, seismic, or visual [...]
The current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is an emergency on a global scale, with huge swathes of the population required to remain inside for prolonged periods at a time to tackle the virus. In this new context, individuals’ health-promoting routines are under greater strain, with prolonged indoor-periods contributing [...]
Many young adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D) struggle with the complex daily demands of adherence to their medical regimen and face challenges achieving glycemic control at target levels. However, few interventions have been developed specifically for this age group. In the proposed study, we will provide [...]
The Singaporean healthcare system is facing challenges arising from the increase of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as type-2 diabetes (T2D), related risk factors, and their associated socio- and health-economic costs. To address this important problem at an early stage of disease onset and because prevention-focused health interventions [...]
The lifetime prevalence of almost all mental disorders in Singapore is rising. Young people seem to be a particularly vulnerable group as they are more likely to have mental health disorders. Unfortunately, there is also a significant treatment gap among people with mood, anxiety and alcohol use [...]
Diabetes is rising globally, with 422 million adults’ worldwide currently living with the condition, equating to 1 in 11 individuals. In Switzerland, diabetes is likewise becoming more prevalent, with 7.4% of the adult population (469 400 adults) diagnosed. Shadowed amongst these figures is the growing burden on [...]
