Skip to content
Home » Innovation program » Cluster » Health

Health

Remember. Understand. Envision. Historical pandemics in societal memory

The pop-up exhibition “Remember. Understand. Envision.” brings the LEAD Hub’s digital research on historical pandemics to life for a broad audience. Archival materials, data, and oral histories are condensed into an interactive experience that invites reflection on collective memory, social resilience, and digital transformation. This project builds on the digital… Read More »Remember. Understand. Envision. Historical pandemics in societal memory

Delirium DynamiX 

Delirium DynamiX harnesses high-resolution USZ ICU data with on-prem LLMs and novel time-series Additive Bayesian Networks. This interpretable modeling of dynamic causal chains enables earlier delirium detection, targeted interventions, external validation, a co-designed dashboard, and a clinical pilot aiming at ≥20% fewer missed delirium-days. Team Dr. Dr. Georg Spinner, ZHAW… Read More »Delirium DynamiX 

ADAPT

ADHD Data-driven Assessment for Phenotyping & Treatment Prediction ADAPT builds a child‑friendly ADHD assessment that integrates brain signals, movement, and performance data capture into standard neuropsychological tests used in clinics. This data will enable multidimensional patient profiles which predict who benefits from which treatment. The goal: faster, safer, more personalized… Read More »ADAPT

eFICUS

A digital health intervention to improve Family health and self-care capacity in Intensive Care UnitS: A human-centered design approach The digital health intervention eFICUS will leverage advances in digital technology and user-centered design to develop timely, equitable, and individualized access to psychoeducational and emotional support for families affected by critical… Read More »eFICUS

Digital Transformation of Handwritten Child Vaccination Cards to Support Immunization Practice & Surveillance in Switzerland 

Vaccination records in Switzerland are largely paper-based, handwritten, and variable in format, making them susceptible to loss and errors and limiting their usefulness for clinical decision-making and public health surveillance. The project team is developing an AI-powered pipeline to digitize handwritten children’s vaccination cards into CH VACD-conformant HL7 FHIR/JSON data,… Read More »Digital Transformation of Handwritten Child Vaccination Cards to Support Immunization Practice & Surveillance in Switzerland 

MERLIN

Enabling real-time medical reasoning through multi-agent workflows The intensive care unit requires rapid decision-making based on large volumes of multimodal patient data. Existing tools typically address isolated tasks without integrating across systems. The project team proposes a multi-agent system for real-time medical reasoning in critical care to reduce cognitive burden… Read More »MERLIN

Adolescents coping with negative emotions induced by social media

Development of social support strategies and a smartphone-based intervention This project investigates how social media affects adolescents emotionally and how social support can reduce negative impacts. Together with adolescents and Pro Juventute, we will launch a video-based social media campaign and distribute materials for educators. A co-developed smartphone intervention will… Read More »Adolescents coping with negative emotions induced by social media

DiSpLA 

A Digital Speech and Language Sample Application for Clinical Diagnostics and Monitoring in Swiss German DiSpLA will be the first automatic speech recognition and language analysis app built for clinical use in Swiss German. The focus will be on speech-language changes in patients with dementia and children with speech-language disorders.… Read More »DiSpLA 

MIRO Suite

Medical Imaging Research Orchestration Suite Safe AI in medical imaging requires expert-labeled data, yet researchers face privacy risks and inefficient workflows. MIRO Suite provides a secure, web-based platform that unifies image access & annotation. With integrated open source AI models, human-in-the-loop labeling, it accelerates medical imaging across cloud and hospital… Read More »MIRO Suite

Me to the power of two

Improving adoptability and market reach of self-dialogue technologies for counselling and psychotherapy As mental-health challenges continue to rise globally and treatment gaps widen, there is a pressing need for accessible, evidence-based interventions. Me² is an immersive self-dialogue tool, designed to strengthen self-compassion, a known key factor in psychological resilience and… Read More »Me to the power of two