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The scope of our projects encompasses technology-based data processing and information systems, digital health interventions, prevention and mental health, outcome measurement, improvement of care, education and science. Browse through our website and gain an insight into the variety of our research!

Reference Projects

  • RetirementCompanion

    The transition from working life to retirement is a significant life event that can affect older adults' health and mental health. This research project aims to support mental health during this process .

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) PCDH / Digital Health Self-Management Lab
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke
      Jonathan Bennett

  • Be(e)Chat: Errichtung und Betrieb eines generativen Sprachmodells

    Das Projekt Be(e)Chat zielt darauf ab, auf Basis eines lokal betriebenen generativen KI-basierten Modells (GenAI) in der Hochschullandschaft des Kantons Bern, sichere und datenschutzkonforme Anwendungen im...

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) PCDH / AI for Health
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke

  • Generative AI for clinical documentation

    There is a consistent increase in the clinical documentation burden. In this project, we want to explore the potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to support the clinical documentation process.

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) PCDH / AI for Health
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke

  • LLM-based training using personalized case examples

    Revolutionizing education: A case-based learning coach powered by LLMs transforms abstract concepts into interactive, personalized experiences!

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) PCDH / Digital Health Self-Management Lab
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke

  • Nutrition management in care@home settings: identify barriers, develop solutions

    The project examines the current state of nutrition management (NM) in Care@home settings, identifies the needs of those affected and synthesizes possibilities for support for interprofessional NM.

    • Institute(s) Nutrition and Dietetics
      Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Head of project Undine Lehmann

  • PatientGuard

    The project investigates how to extract relevant information from clinical documents using LLM-based methods and evaluates the quality of these methods for the prediction and prevention of hospital-acquired...

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) PCDH / AI for Health
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke

  • Inclusive design of digital health interventions for the aging population

    Older adults face barriers when interacting with digital health tools. This project develops guidelines to design inclusive, user-friendly digital health interventions, contributing to improved access and...

    • Institute(s) Institute of Design Research
      Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) Social Design
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke
      Beatrice Kaufmann Vatter

  • Creating medical registry datasets from unstructured text

    The project aims to automate the data population process for clinical registries through the use of large language models (LLMs).

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) PCDH / AI for Health
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke

  • MindMate

    Seit Beginn der Covid-Pandemie nahmen psychische Probleme bei jungen Erwachsenen zu. Welche Anforderungen ein Chatbot-basiertes System erfüllen sollte, um die psychische Gesundheit von Studierenden zu...

    • Institute(s) Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health (PCDH)
    • Research unit(s) PCDH / AI for Health
    • Head of project Kerstin Denecke
      Dandan Pang