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:
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Dr. rer. nat. Marco Eichelberg
E-Mail: marco.eichelberg(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-147, Room: E46
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Dr.-Ing. Frerk Müller-von Aschwege
E-Mail: Frerk.Mueller-von.Aschwege(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-146, Room: E50
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Dr. rer. nat. Wilfried Thoben
E-Mail: wilfried.thoben(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-131, Room: E47
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Projects
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CARESS
CARESS Clinical and Epidemiological Cancer Data Warehouse System and Tooling
Duration: 1995 - -0001 D
DAIsy
Developing AI ecosystems improving diagnosis and care of mental diseases
Duration: 2023 - 2025 E
EXPERT
Extremitätenboards zur Prozessoptimierung, Evaluation, Risikominimierung und Therapieoptimierung bei Frakturen mit Weichteilschäden oder post-operativer Infektion der unteren Extremitäten im Traumanetzwerk
Duration: 2022 - 2025F
FIAT
Familien-basierte telemedizinische vs. Institutionelle Anorexia nervosa Therapie
Duration: 2024 - 2026 FloraGPT
KI- und Sensorik-gesteuerte Bewässerung mit benutzerfreundlicher Oberfläche für Torfersatz- optimierte Anbauverfahren.
Duration: 2024 - 2027G
Publications
2025
Mobile Data Collection for Depression Analysis: An App Framework for Monitoring Mood and Depression Using Smartphone and Wearable Data:
Schröter, Eliane and Klein, Franziska and Elfert, Patrick and Bredehorn, Fynn and Räker, Julien and Aschwege, Frerk and Hein, Andreas; Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies; 2025
The fNIRS glossary project: a consensus-based resource for functional near-infrared spectroscopy terminology
Stute, Katharina and Gossé, Louisa K. and Montero-Hernandez, Samuel and Perkins, Guy A. and Yücel, Meryem A. and Cutini, Simone and Durduran, Turgut and Ehlis, Ann-Christine and Ferrari, Marco and Gervain, Judit and Mesquita, Rickson C. and Orihuela-Espina, Felipe and Quaresima, Valentina and Scholkmann, Felix and Tachtsidis, Ilias and Torricelli, Alessandro and Wabnitz, Heidrun and Yodh, Arjun G. and Carp, Stefan A. and Dehghani, Hamid and Fang, Qianqian and Fantini, Sergio and Hoshi, Yoko and Niu, Haijing and Obrig, Hellmuth and Klein, Franziska and Artemenko, Christina and Bajracharya, Aahana and Barth, Beatrix and Bartkowski, Christian and Borot, Lénac and Bulgarelli, Chiara and Busch, David R. and Chojak, Malgorzata and DeFreitas, Jason M. and Diprossimo, Laura and Dresler, Thomas and Eken, Aykut and Elsherif, Mahmoud M. and Emberson, Lauren L. and Exner, Anna and Ferdous, Talukdar Raian and Fiske, Abigail and Forbes, Samuel H. and Gemignani, Jessica and Gerloff, Christian and Guérin, Ségolène M. R. and Guevara, Edgar and Hamilton, Antonia F. de C. and Hosseini, S. M. Hadi and Jain, Divya and Kerr-German, Anastasia N. and Kong, Haiyan and Kroczek, Agnes and Longhurst, Jason K. and Lührs, Michael and MacLennan, Rob J. and Mehler, David M. A. and Meidenbauer, Kimberly L. and Moreau, David and Mutlu, Murat C. and Orti, Renato and Paranawithana, Ishara and Pinti, Paola and Jounghani, Ali Rahimpour and Reindl, Vanessa and Ross, Nicholas A. and Sanchez-Alonso, Sara and Seidel-Marzi, Oliver and Shukla, Mohinish and Usama, Syed A. and Talati, Musa and Vergotte, Grégoire and Yaqub, M. Atif and Yu, Chia-Chuan and Zainodini, Hanieh; Neurophotonics; April / 2025
The Use of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) for Monitoring Brain Function, Predicting Outcomes, and Evaluating Rehabilitative Interventional Responses in Poststroke Patients with Upper Limb Hemiplegia: A Systematic Review
Gong, Yongan and Lin, Ruixuan and Mutlu, Murat Can and Lorentz, Lukas and Shaikh, Usman Jawed and Graeve, Joscha D and Badkoubeh, Niloufar and Zeng, Roy Rongyue and Klein, Franziska and Lührs, Michael and Mathiak, Klaus and Zhang, Jack Jiaqi and Mehler, David MA; IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics; 2025
2024
Bridging Gaps in Fracture Rehabilitation: A Mobile Solution Proposal for Comprehensive Recovery.
Maszuhn, Matthias and Müller-von Aschwege, Frerk and Jansen, Felix and Hein, Andreas and Knol, Hester and Snowdon, David and Buschermöhle, Michael and Barth, Dominik and Haag, Luisa and Wohlers, Nadine and others; BIOSTEC (2); 2024
Clustering breast cancer patients based on their course of treatment
Kolja Blohm and David Korfkamp and Christian Lüpkes; Gesundheit – gemeinsam. Kooperationstagung der GMDS, DGSMP, DGEpi, DGMS und der DGPH; 2024
Comparison of Ensemble Learning Methods for Classification in Cancer Registries
Nico Schult and Timo Wolters and Marc Hermes and Klaas Dählmann and Andreas Hein; Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems Proceedings of MIE 2024; 8 / 2024
Data Quality in Clinical Cancer Registries: Imputation of Missing Values through Related Information
Timo Wolters and Klaas Dählmann and Joachim Hübner and Anja Groeneveld and Christian Lüpkes and Andreas Hein; Gesundheit – gemeinsam. Kooperationstagung der GMDS, DGSMP, DGEpi, DGMS und der DGPH; 9 / 2024
Effect of simulated hearing loss on automatic speech recognition for an android robot-patient
Röhl, J.H. and Günther, U. and Hein, A. and Cauchi, B.; Frontiers in Robotics and AI; September / 2024
Eine Modellierung des Potenzials einer grenzüberschreitenden stationären Versorgung in der Ems-Dollart Grenzregion mit Hilfe eines differenziellen Erreichbarkeitsindexes
Specht, Sebastian and Hein, Andreas; Jahrestagung 2024: Gesundheitliche Ungleichheiten in einer Welt im Wandel. Arbeitskreis Medizinische Geographie und Geographische Gesundheitsforschung.; 09 / 2024
