PROJECTS
Bridging theory and practice: Our research projects are embedded in practical settings and require a multi-disciplinary approach. Industry provides inspiration and infrastructure for our ideas and experiments.
How can NCD services be more successful? – A guide for creating successful business models for NCD companies
80% of the Swiss health care costs are spent on non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This means every fourth person in Switzerland suffers at least from one NCD. Often, [...]
TrailBlazer: Predicting Success in Growth-stage Digital Health Companies
Even the most revolutionary digital therapeutics (DTx) cannot significantly impact patients' lives if they fail to align with the business interests of healthcare payers, such as insurers, [...]
VOGUE: Receptivity of Women during Menstrual Cycle
We are pleased to present a research project that aims to explore the relationship between a woman's menstrual cycle and her receptivity to just-in-time adaptive interventions. This [...]
GENKI: Business Models for Healthy Longevity
Challenges Longer life expectancy with a declining younger population leads to an aging society where the older population might consume all resources (Fried, Wong and Dzau, 2022). [...]
LvL UP: A Digital Lifestyle Coach for the Prevention of NCDs in Singapore
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer, and Common Mental Disorders (CMDs) such as depression or anxiety are the leading causes of death and [...]
Core – Wearable AI for Rheumatoid Arthritis Management (WARAM)
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease caused by the body’s immune system attacking its tissues resulting in inflammation of joints (e.g., fingers, toes) characterized by [...]
RehabCoach
The Rehabilitation Engineering Lab (RELab) at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich is an interdisciplinary group with competencies in mechanical and electrical engineering, [...]
Book: Digital Therapeutics for Mental Health and Addiction
Are you interested in how Digital Therapeutics might be leveraged in healthcare? The recently published textbook "Digital Therapeutics for Mental Health and Addiction: The State of [...]
Digital Therapeutics for Healthy Longevity: A Roadmap
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including common mental disorders, not only impose an enormous health burden on individuals but also lead to substantial economic burdens for healthcare systems. Especially [...]
Research grant awarded to RehabCoach – a digital platform for remote rehabilitation
The ETH RESC – Suva Funding Programme, which supports R&D in prevention, rehabilitation, and health economics with a focus on accident-related injuries, has awarded its first [...]
What can we do to lower the socioeconomic inequalities in health? Healthification, a short animation
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) impose enormous health burdens on individuals and lead to substantial health economic challenges. NCDs' risk factors relate primarily to a lifestyle characterized by [...]
CanRelax: A mindfulness and relaxation app for people with cancer
Relaxation exercises can help to reduce stress symptoms and improve quality of life. In a project funded by the Swiss Cancer Research Foundation, researchers at the Institute for Complementary [...]
Trends in voice characteristics in patients with heart failure
Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is characterised by the heart’s incapacity to pump sufficient blood to meet the body’s metabolic needs. It afflicts over 64 million people worldwide [...]
Frontiers in Digital Health 2022 Call for Papers on Scaling Up Health IT
Healthcare delivery is undergoing a rapid change from traditional processes towards the use of digital health interventions and personalized medicine. On one side, hospitals and health [...]
Digitalization of Inflammatory Biomarkers for Chronic Systemic Inflammation (CSI)
Several studies have shown robust evidence between the chronic systemic inflammation (CSI) and increasing risk of various non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mortality. As opposed to an acute [...]
HackZurich 2021: Stay comfy and get healthy
Unhealthy lifestyles endanger the human population in the 21st century; more than 50% of the world’s population live with a non-communicable disease (NCD), often caused by [...]
Book: The Digital Pill: What Everyone Should Know about the Future of Our Healthcare System
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 [...]
I feel BEDDA – A Vocal Biomarker for Subclinical Depression
Visit the study website Worldwide millions of people are suffering from depression. This trend is fueled by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the pandemic [...]
RADAR: Wearable-Based Dysglycemia Detection and Warning in Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus affects approximately 537 million people worldwide, and a doubling of cases is expected within the next 25 years. The economic burden manifests in yearly expenditures [...]
FLIRT: A Feature Generation Toolkit for Wearable Data
Researchers use wearable sensing data and machine learning (ML) models to predict various health and behavioral outcomes. However, sensor data from commercial wearables are prone to noise, [...]
HYPEX: Hypoglycemia Prediction During and After Exercise
Diabetes mellitus affects approximately 460 million people worldwide, of which type 1 diabetes is estimated to impact 1.1 million children and adolescents under the age of 20 [...]