Our profile

In research and teaching, the Research Group Digital Health deals with the analysis, design and maintenance of  information systems - primarily in the healthcare sector. For these purposes, we apply established methods of system development, such as organisational modeling, and develop them further to use them as holistic management tools.

The focus of our research and development activities is on the theoretical foundation, design and optimisation of complex information systems, as they are found in integrated care, patient-oriented and process-oriented information system design. The focus further is on the design-oriented and engineering-like problem solving of information challenges, the generation of evidence on digital health solutions as well as the theoretical foundation and reflection of complex design decisions. The goal of our research is always to balance theory and technology while adding value to research and practice through both practical relevance and scientific rigour. In turn, the theories and technologies developed can be used in a variety of application areas - inside as well as outside the healthcare domain.

The Research Group Digital Health is involved in various professional associations and is an active member of the European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL), the specialist groups Modeling of Operational Information Systems (FG-MobIS) and Digital Health (FG-DH) of the German Informatics Society (GI). With our expertise, we continue to be involved in numerous collaborative and third-party funded projects at the level of the European Union, the DFG, the BMBF and BMG.