Shaping the healthcare of tomorrow through patient-centered digital technologies
Abstract
For the past few decades, health systems have been challenged by a series of fundamental
societal trends, e.g., ageing and an increase of illnesses related to lifestyle, resulting in a continuous
increase of health costs. Efficient solutions to these challenges shall be centered on patients’ needs and
therefore require precise knowledge about the well-being of individuals and groups, i.e., reliable and
relevant health data.
With the rise of digital health technologies - based among others on wearable health sensors, ubiquitous
mobile internet, and machine data processing - we now have tools at hand which allow us collecting
these data in various situations, including individuals’ daily lives, and extracting and synthesizing
actionable parameters. The resulting devices and systems surpass the state of the art in terms of
information content, autonomy, ergonomics, and signal quality.
In this talk we will present how the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) puts
patients at the center of its developments and thereby shapes tomorrow’s digital health technologies
with groundbreaking innovations such as a multi-signal ambulatory shirt for non-obtrusive functional
lung imaging, wearables for cuffless blood pressure monitoring, and algorithms for non-invasive and
continuous measurement of the pulmonary arterial pressure. The transformative potential of these
developments is anticipated to materialize in reduced healthcare costs, improved quality of life of
patients and caregivers, and highly individualized illness prevention.
Publication Reference
EMBEC 2024, Portoroz (Slovenia)
Year
2024-09-06