Exclusive Pre-Conference Event on 8 May 2025
Visit our research partner: Swiss Center for Design and Health (SCDH)
We’re excited to invite conference participants arriving early in Biel to a special guided tour of our research partner: a guided tour of the Swiss Center for Design and Health (SCDH) at 16:00.
The SCDH supports partners from industry, academia, and the public sector with expertise with expertise in the design, development and evaluation of innovative health-oriented solutions. Visitors will gain exclusive insights into Switzerland’s largest simulation area with extended reality capabilities, realistic test environments, measurement labs, creative workshops, and a rich materials library.
Don’t miss this opportunity to explore innovation in action – just before the conference begins!

Interested? Please contact Michael Lehmann directly to secure your place on this exciting tour!
Conference programme on 9 May 2025
Door opening: 08:15
09:00-09:20 | Opening Session |
09:20-09:50 | Keynote 1: From Ideas to Impact: How AI, Smartphones, and Wearables Are Revolutionizing Diabetes Self-ManagementStavroula Mougiakakou, Bern |
09:50-10:50 | Next generation AI solutions in medicine VoiceCheck: An Intelligent Assistant for Enhancing Surgical Safety Through Guided Checklist Use (Medroa Inacio P, Saltan M, Denecke K) What Is in There for Artificial Intelligence to Support Mental Health Care for Persons with Serious Mental Illness? (Wang B, Grønvik CK, Fortuna K, Eines T, Mundal I, Storm M) AI-based Analysis of Abdominal Ultrasound Images to Support Medical Diagnosis in Emergency Departments (Hamedi Z, Brigato L, Schütz M, Lehmann B, Exadaktylos A, Mougiakakou S, Krummrey G) |
10:50-11:15 | Coffee break |
11:15-12:15 | Young Researchers’ Track Development of an Assistance Robot for Fall Detection and Reporting in Healthcare (Pfyffer M, Amrein J, Bürkle T) Digitization of the Huddle-Board in the Sonnenhof Operating Room (Nguyen M, Leuthold P, Lehmann M) AI-Enhanced Speech Recognition in Triage (Elhilali A, Brügger V, Tschannen I, Hautz W, Krummrey G) |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch break |
13:30-14:00 | Keynote 2: Delivering Hospital at Home for acute medical care – the role of digital platformsDaniel Lasserson, Coventry, UK |
14:00-15:00 | Connected care – the key to a seamless patient journey Patient Journey Maps and the Shared Decision Making Process (Laurac M, Bürkle T) Incentives and obstacles towards seamless care pathways in different countries (Bürkle T) Transferring structured medical data from hospital to rehabilitation facilities using HL7 FHIR and openEHR (Schulze M, Löhnhartz B, Kückmann M, Zeppernick T, Feldmann M, Gronwald J, Schewe N, König UA, Kraus I, Wohlfarth E, Kesztyüs T, Gietzelt M, Beismann C, Bavendiek U, Krefting D, Oeltze-Jafra S) |
15:00-15:30 | Coffee break |
15:30-16:00 | Keynote 3: Revolutionizing Healthcare: Integrating AI for Enhanced Patient Care and Clinical EfficiencyMaxim Topaz, New York, USA |
16:00-17:00 | AI and social media: benefits and harms Opportunities, requirements, and risks of a student mental health chatbot: A qualitative user-centered, multi-method approach (Reichenpfader D, Affolter L, Gabarron E, Denecke K) Social media interventions for individuals with ADHD: A scoping review (Bergsland A, Gabarron E) The Unexpected Harms of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Reflections on Four Real-World Cases (Denecke K, Lopez-Campos G, Rivera-Romero O, Gabarron E) |
17:00-17:15 | Concluding Session Award ceremony |
17:15 | Get together («Apéro riche») |
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