Digital Health Ecosystems
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we offer topics for analysis, design, implementation, and evaluation in the following areas for a bachelor's, master's, diploma, or seminar thesis:
- Development and Evaluation of Digital Health Applications
- Interoperability for Digital Health Applications
- Digitization in the Public Health Service
- Platform business models and research data infrastructures
- Digitization in nursing care
In the following table, you will find a selection of specific topics and their description. If you are interested in a topic, please contact the respective supervisor.
| Digitization in the Public Health Service | |
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A step-by-step approach is necessary to expand the digital infrastructure and networking of public health departments at the local, state, and national levels. To enable such a step-by-step approach, the Digital Health research group has developed a literature- and empirical-based maturity model. On one hand, the maturity model is intended to enable health departments to measure their own level of digital maturity. Furthermore, the maturity model is intended to support health departments in deriving digitization potential and concrete recommendations for action for prioritized digitization projects. Since the digitization of health departments is a complex undertaking, eight dimensions have currently been developed in the maturity model to enable digitization in a variety of ways. These dimensions include digitization strategy, employees, process digitization, IT security, IT provision, citizen centricity, collaboration and software, data, and interoperability. Theses in this topic area can address, for example, further substantiation of the individual dimensions based on the literature |
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Supervisor: Dr. Jeannette Stark |
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| Interoperability for Digital Health Applications | |
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| The development of digital health innovations presents interdisciplinary project teams with the great challenge of having to meet a complex set of requirements. Depending on the nature of the planned innovation and its target environment of the existing practice, diverse, interdependent aspects must be taken into account in addition to medical quality: including regulatory framework conditions, existing information system landscapes, economic interests, healthcare process flows, etc.. In order to successfully integrate modern IT solutions into healthcare practice, a holistic (socio-technical) understanding of interoperability is to be strengthened and made manageable for diverse types of digital health applications. | |
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Supervisor: Dr. Kai Gand |
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| Digital Health Applications | |
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| Digital health applications are considered one of the most important innovations in the German healthcare system. They are also receiving a great deal of international attention and recognition. Nevertheless, many digital health applications are very selectively oriented and not very integratively tailored to the care context. A scientific analysis should examine how the integration of different digital health applications could be implemented in a treatment context (e.g., in the sense of a "master path" as an extension of the path approach). | |
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Supervisor: Dr. Hannes Schlieter |
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| Digitalization in Care | |
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More digital help for people in need of care, more telemedicine, and a suitable digital infrastructure - these are the goals of the Act on the Digital Modernization of Care and Nursing in Germany. In the future, digital applications can also be included in standard care - for example, apps for fall prevention or memory training. The exchange between those in need of care, relatives, and care professionals can also be facilitated digitally. Against this background, the aim is to answer questions relating to what opportunities and hurdles digitization in care entails, what the state of science (e.g., research projects) and practice (e.g., care apps) is in this subject area, and how digital care applications can be classified. |
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Supervisor: Dr. Peggy Richter |
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| Evaluation of digital health applications | |
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