Health OFFIS

Health

The demographic changes and the progress in medical technology present new questions for the health system.

How can the teamwork of the protagonists in health care be constructed more efficiently? How can we optimize the support of health care and aftercare? And how have the living and habitation of tomorrow to look like to permit the elderly a maximum of well-being and independence? The information and communication technologies (ICT) help to find answers to the challenges of the future and to implement them adequately.

OFFIS as Designer

For many years we at OFFIS have been researching and developing information technologies for health care and medicine. The Lower Saxony Epidemiological Cancer Register and the significant participation in the development of the DICOM international medical image communication standard are just two of numerous examples of successful OFFIS work. We understand health not only as the absence of sickness but rather – following the definition of the World Health Organisation WHO – as a condition of full physical, mental and social wellbeing. The topics of “Ambient Assisted Living” (the technical support of people in their daily lives) and “Health Services” (analysis of health service situations and new health service concepts) are thus of particular significance in our work.

Concrete Applications

We have classified our concrete applications of the division Health's ICT-Research and -Development in the following R&D-Groups:

Chairman Executive Board

Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Andreas Hein

Directors

Dr. rer. nat.
Wilfried Thoben

Persons

B

Kolja Blohm

E-Mail: kolja.blohm(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-461, Room: Flx-G

Dr. Dietrich Boles

E-Mail: Dietrich.Boles(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-212, Room: Flx-S

Fynn Bredehorn

E-Mail: fynn.bredehorn(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-406

Christian Buj

E-Mail: christian.buj(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-241, Room: E115

C

Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Cauchi

E-Mail: benjamin.cauchi(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-428, Room: E48

D

Dr.-Ing. Klaas Dählmann

E-Mail: klaas.daehlmann(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-290, Room: Flx-G

E

Dr. rer. nat. Marco Eichelberg

E-Mail: marco.eichelberg(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-147, Room: E46

F

Mareike Förster

E-Mail: mareike.foerster(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-259

G

Jenny Inge Glitza

E-Mail: Jenny.Glitza(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-123

H

Kirsten Harms

E-Mail: kirsten.harms(at)offis.de, Room: Flx-G

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Hein

E-Mail: Andreas.Hein(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-701, Room: O41

Dr. rer. nat. Björn Holtze

E-Mail: bjoern.holtze(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-130

K

Dr. rer. nat. Franziska Klein

E-Mail: Franziska.Klein(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-271

Dr. Ing. Tobias Krahn

E-Mail: tobias.krahn(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-145

L

Dr.-Ing. Christian Lüpkes

E-Mail: christian.luepkes(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-134, Room: E45

M

Matthias Maszuhn

E-Mail: matthias.maszuhn(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-538, Room: E48

Dr.-Ing. Frerk Müller-von Aschwege

E-Mail: frerk.mueller-von.aschwege(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-146, Room: E50

N

Celia Nieto Agraz

E-Mail: celia.nietoagraz(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-149, Room: E64

R

Julien Räker

E-Mail: julien.raeker(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-230

Harald Roesen

E-Mail: Harald.Roesen(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-738, Room: Flx-G

Martin Rohde

E-Mail: martin.rohde(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-140, Room: U25

S

Eliane Schröter

E-Mail: eliane.schroeter(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-257

Patricia Schwarz

E-Mail: patricia.schwarz(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-133

Finn Siegel

E-Mail: finn.siegel(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-209

Sebastian Specht

E-Mail: sebastian.specht(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-700, Room: U31

Rebekka Stellfeldt

E-Mail: rebekka.stellfeldt(at)offis.de

T

Dr. rer. nat. Wilfried Thoben

E-Mail: wilfried.thoben(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-131, Room: E47

Tabea Tschigor

E-Mail: tabea.tschigor(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-249

W

Stefan Windrich

E-Mail: stefan.windrich(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-588, Room: Flx-G

Timo Wolters

E-Mail: timo.wolters(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-724, Room: Flx-G

EN: Alle Personen aus dem Bereich Health

Projects

0-9

3D-REM

3D-Echtzeit-Bildgebungs- und Messsystem für Rasterelektronenmikroskope (Sorry - this page is only available in German)

Duration: 2005 - 2009

A

A2I

Augmented Auditive Intelligence

Duration: 2021 - 2024

AALIANCE2

European Next Generation Ambient Assisted Living Innovation Alliance

Duration: 2011 - 2014

AEQUIPA

Physical activity and health equity: primary prevention for healthy ageing

Duration: 2015 - 2022

AERG

Advanced Ergonomics on HCI for Satellite Monitor & Control, Problem Analysis, Design & Planning Activities and Support for Critical Operation Phases

Duration: 2012 - 2013

AIM+

Automatisiertes Infektionskrankheiten-Meldesystem

(Sorry - this page is only available in German.)

Duration: 2001 - 2003

AlarmRedux

Reduction of the acoustic load on nursing staff in intensive care units

Duration: 2016 - 2019

AmbiAct

Automatische Aktivitätserkennung und Notfallmeldung als Ergänzung von Hausnotrufsystemen (sorry - only available in German)

Duration: 2012 - 2013

aniplus+

Informationsplattform zur Optimierung der Tiergesundheit in der Metropolregion Bremen-Oldenburg (sorry - only available in german)

Duration: 2014 - 2015

APNTR

Automatisierter Druckprozess von NTR-Sensoren auf der Nanoskala für ein AFM-SEM-System

Duration: 2019 - 2021

EN:Alle Projekte aus dem Bereich Health

Publications

2025

AI and robotic systems in healthcare

Paluch, Richard and Weiler, Tim and Eichelberg, Marco and Hein, Andreas and Huldtgren, Alina and Hülsken-Giesler, Manfred and Meyer, Sibylle and Müller, Claudia; i-com; 2025

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Bildung einer Kohorte zur Untersuchung der medizinischen Versorgung nach einer Krebserkrankung im Kindes- oder Jugendalter (VersKiK-Kohorte) mittels Record-Linkage zwischen Deutschem Kinderkrebsregister und gesetzlichen Krankenkassen

Hiltrud Merzenich and Peter Ihle and Jutta Küpper-Nybelen and Christian Lüpkes and Claudia Bremensdorfer and Ekaterina Aleshchenko and Christian Apfelbacher and Pietro Trocchi and Dirk Horenkamp-Sonntag and Iris Meier and Patrik Dröge and Thomas Ruhnke and Ursula Marschall and Melanie Klein and Katja Baust and Gabriele Calaminus and Thorsten Langer and Enno Swart and Cecile Ronckers and Claudia Spix; Das Gesundheitswesen; 11 / 2025

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Characterising childhood cancer survivors in Germany: A retrospective observational study on demographic, clinical, and healthcare utilisation patterns

Ekaterina Aleshchenko and Pietro Trocchi and Christian Apfelbacher and Katja Baust and Gabriele Calaminus and Patrik Droege and Dirk Horenkamp-Sonntag and Peter Ihle and Melanie Klein and Jutta Kuepper-Nybelen and Thorsten Langer and Christian Luepkes and Ursula Marschall and Hiltrud Merzenich and Thomas Ruhnke and Claudia Spix and Enno Swart and Cecile Ronckers; EJC Paediatric Oncology; 12 / 2025

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Clustering Breast Cancer Patients Based on Their Treatment Courses Using German Cancer Registry Data

Blohm, Kolja and Korfkamp, David and Oesterling, Florian and Dählmann, Klaas and Schulze, Stefanie and Hein, Andreas; Methods of Information in Medicine; December / 2025

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Comparing Patient Simulation With a Humanoid Robot or a Human Actor in Terms of Training Success and Acceptance: Pilot Questionnaire Study

Schwarz, Patricia and Hellmers, Sandra and Spanknebel, Sebastian and Immel, Diana and Hurlemann, Rene and Hein, Andreas; JMIR Form Research; Dec / 2025

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Development of a new cancer atlas in Lower Saxony using Bayesian smoothing methods

Blohm, Kolja and Beckhaus, Julia and Specht, Sebastian and Urbschat, Iris and Vohmann, Claudia and Lüpkes, Christian and Hübner, Joachim and Kieschke, Joachim and Hein, Andreas; 70. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e. V. (GMDS); 2025

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Editorial

Hülsken-Giesler, Manfred and Ackerman, Mark and Eichelberg, Marco and Hein, Andreas and Kodate, Naonori and Lienenbrink, Simone and Meyer, Sibylle and Müller, Claudia and Paluch, Richard; International Journal of Social Robotics; 2025

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Effect of simultaneous physical and auditory stressors on cardiorespiratory response

Buj, Christian and Preuß, Meret and Mörsdorf, Maximilian and Schmidt, Anke and Guckel, Denise and Dumitrescu, Daniel and Klein, Franziska and Straetmans-Oehme, Lisa and Eichelberg, Marco and Hein, Andreas; Scientific Reports; April / 2025

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Enhancing Fracture Aftercare Through a Human-Centered Mobile App Design

Maszuhn, Matthias and Jansen, Felix and Müller-von Aschwege, Frerk and Hein, Andreas; Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2; 01 / 2025

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Evaluating the Viability of Neural Networks for Analyzing Electromyography Data in Home Rehabilitation: Estimating Load on the Leg

Finn SiegelChristian BujRicarda MerfortAndreas HeinFrerk Müller-von Aschwege ; Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies ; 2025

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EN: Alle Publikationen aus dem Bereich Health

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