Thursday, 02 May 2024,  4.15 pm CET

Hybrid Event at Switzerland Innovation Park Ost AG | Lerchenfeldstrasse 3 | 9014 St. Gallen, followed by an apéro and a pre-opening tour of their showroom.

Zoom (https://unisg.zoom.us/j/62450172012)

About Adrian Weitnauer 

Adrian Weitnauer has been Professor of Electrical Measurement Technology and Electromagnetic Compatibility at the OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences on the Buchs campus since 2012. His development of a practical measurement method for functional residual capacity in ventilated patients attracted attention in specialist circles following its publication. In 1994, Adrian Weitnauer founded the engineering company Weitnauer Messtechnik, where he worked for customers for 18 years in the broad areas of measurement technology and signal processing. The metrological services in the fields of EMC, non-ionizing radiation, acoustics and power quality led Adrian Weitnauer to many problem cases in industry, healthcare, trade and public authorities. Adrian Weitnauer’s research work focuses on applications in measurement technology, signal processing and electromagnetic compatibility. These include the development of a longitudinal cutter for spinal surgery, blinking senor, PPG analysis and contactless ECG.

About the Lecture

In medical applications, there is a trend towards ever more precise and refined, and therefore expensive and complex, diagnostics, including personalized medicine. At the same time, there is an opposing trend towards more frequent, simpler and cheaper diagnostic sampling supported by portable or wearable sensors, which tends to be used to determine progression and does not always have to be extremely accurate, supported by intelligent systems based on closed feedback systems. One example is the “hospital at home”, especially for patients with chronic illnesses or when hospital stays or visits are complicated to organize.

The trend towards ambulant or hospital external medicine is justified by lower costs, improved and simplified long-term monitoring and the exclusion of examination bias. Modern sensor concepts support this development.

We are pleased to invite you to join this guest lecture, which is part of our CDHI Lecture Series Digital Health Forum. Registration is not required. Please be aware that we will be recording this guest lecture and will be making it available in our teaching library. If you have any questions, please contact Victoria Brügger (victoria.bruegger@unisg.ch) prior to the start of the guest lecture.