About the eHealth Toolbox Project
We launched this project with the aim of moving away from conceptual efforts to offer a hands-on eHealth assessment toolbox that can be used in practice by the relevant stakeholders in their day-to-day work. It takes into account the gaps and challenges identified in previous initiatives and aims to overcome them, adopting a co-creation methodology with the practice partners and industry experts.
In a practice-oriented style, we created an eHealth assessment toolbox that they can use in their everyday practice, considering the social, organizational, and technical factors of healthcare technology assessment, adoption and implementation.
Scope
This project focuses on patient-facing eHealth tools, including self-management tools and remote eHealth solutions, rather than tools used within and between care providers (e.g., HCP video-conferences, or EHR integration), or health data analytics systems used at population level.
Project Lead
Dr. Christine Jacob
Healthcare Technology Expert
Digital Health Strategist
FHNW
With over 20 years of industry experience, Christine is a seasoned healthcare executive that held several leading international positions in major Pharma companies. Her career encompassed several Digital Strategy roles, where her aim was to help her stakeholders to adopt creative and innovative user engagement strategies, successfully connecting with their key customers to create relevant and sustainable digital health solutions and implementation strategies. She also acts as a senior business consultant and strategy advisor to several major players in the healthcare industry, in addition to her work with Digital Health start-ups.
Her research work focuses on Healthcare Technology adoption and implementation, looking into the social, organisational, and technical factors impacting user acceptance of novel digital health tools. She led several research projects involving Pharma, digital health start-ups, and diverse clinics and hospitals across Europe.
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Research Team
Dr. Johan Lindeque
Strategy & Methodology Expert
Business Strategist
FHNW
Ruth Röhm
Quality Manager Education
FHNW
Roman Müller
Research associate empirical economic and social research
FHNW
Prof. Dr. Sabina Heuss
Healthcare Communications Expert
Co-Head Focus Healthcare
FHNW
Prof. Dr. Marc K. Peter
Head of Competence Center
Digital Transformation
FHNW
Practice Partners
Alexander Klein
Group Leader Digital Health, Personalised Healthcare Center of Excellence
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Thomas Metcalfe
Cluster lead PHC Ecosystem, Personalized Healthcare Center of Excellence
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Roland Bosshard
CIO and Member of
the Management Board
KPT Insurance
Funding
This project is jointly sponsored by F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd as a platinum practice partner, KPT insurance as a gold practice partner, and Innosuisse (the Swiss Innovation Agency, grant number 104.445 IP-ICT).
Contact
For any inquiries related to this project, please get in touch with the project lead, Dr. Christine Jacob