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Digital Health is a key to ensure that Switzerland’s healthcare system is efficient, cost-effective and patient-centric. A digital transformation will increase transparency, accessibility and understanding of health information for the entire Swiss population. All healthcare actors need to collaborate to transition the healthcare system to the digital space and create a population mindshift.
We want to digitalise the entire healthcare system in Switzerland and make it patient-centric. We will do these by:
We want to bridge the existing gaps to ensure a coherent efficient healthcare network in Switzerland.
Lack of national guidelines and standards
Lack of trust in digitalisation and fear of data storage
Lack of health and digital literacy
* De Gani S.M., Rebecca J., Bieri U., Kocher J.P. Health Literacy Survey Schweiz 2019–2021. Careum Stiftung; Zürich, Switzerland: 2021. Schlussbericht im Auftrag des Bundesamt für Gesundheit.
Lack of data interoperability
Lack of legal framework for an integrated smart solution
We have created an ecosystem map to illustrate the different digital solutions and initiatives which focus on enhancing the digital patient journey and the digitalisation of the healthcare system in Switzerland. We will update the content every quarter.
We highly value the opinion of the population itself and we are therefore working with our partner gfs zürich on a population survey to better understand the needs and fears of the Swiss citizens towards the digitalisation of the healthcare system. We wrote and published a study, “A Swiss digital healthcare system: What the population thinks,” to showcase the results of the survey to the wider ecosystem.
The WEF22 breakfast of digitalswitzerland took place at the ETH Pavilion in Davos to discuss the topic of digital health. 50 C-levels came together to exchange on this important topic as it is only with a joint collaborative approach of all stakeholders in the healthcare sector can a common national vision for the successful digitalisation of healthcare be defined. Anne Lévy (Director of FOPH), Philomena Colatrella (CEO of CSS), Dr Christoph Franz (Chairman of the Board of Directors of Roche) and Dr. Conrad E. Müller (President of Pro UKBB Foundation) were present on stage.
digitalswitzerland’s Digital Health Committee is active in shaping the future of digital health in Switzerland. This group of energised and committed members is working to digitalise the entire healthcare system and make it patient-centric.
Our Community Partner DayOne Basel provide invaluable in-kind support to our Digital Health initiative. We are so thankful for their ongoing support and shared mission to digitalise the future healthcare system of Switzerland.
Our Community Partner Swiss Healthcare Startups provide invaluable in-kind support to our Digital Health initiative. We are so thankful for their ongoing support and shared mission to digitalise the future healthcare system of Switzerland.
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24.05 4:45 pm - 5:30 pm
Congress Center, Basel
Join our panel discussion about “Opportunities of digitalisation in the healthcare system, relevance and benefits of data collection from citizens (including healthy citizens)” at the Swiss Biotech Day in Basel.
Biotech plays a key role in the healthcare system of Switzerland, and Swiss Biotech Day is the leading biotechnology conference in Europe. We look forward to seeing you there.
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