Dr. Olaf Gaus
Coordinator „Digital Practice“ Research Group
Managing Director Digital Model Region Healthcare Tripoint (DMGD)
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Projects: Overview
Within the Life Science Department of the University of Siegen the Competence Centre DMGD founded the research group Digital Practice to explore and to enable data medicine. The use of medical data to improve care and treatment of patients is particularly important in rural areas like the vicinity of Siegen, where a lack of general practitioners will become increasingly challenging for the society and existing doctor’s offices will have to treat more and more patients of older age and limited mobility. This is why the scientific approach of the research group follows the guiding principle of substituting patient mobility by data mobility.
Shaping healthcare processes: „Digital Practice“ as a telemedical center
This figure illustrates the concept of the Digital Practice as an intersectoral telemedical center with connected providers and patients. The path of the data is described, from the prescription of vital signs measurement by a general practitioner (GP) to data storage and (AI-supported) evaluation in the Medical Data Space, followed by data retrieval of the (pre-)analysed data via the practice management system (PVS) by the prescribing general practitioner. The Digital Practice also enables further medical expertise e.g. teleconsultations. Thanks to this database, more specific feedback discussions can take place between doctor and patient. The DMGD and the closely interlinked units of the research group are aligned with this concept and are driving developments forward, together with key players from healthcare, politics and business.
The established co-operations to doctor’s offices and hospitals as well as the anchoring in political and socially institutions will back up the activities of the research group by offering a real lab for testing the results of the group. This process is intensively pushed further. The research group is divided into three working groups, which are closely interlinked and build on each other.
Unit 1 | Advanced Measurement Technology
Spokespersons
Prof. Dr. Rainer Brück, Dr.-Ing. Kai Hahn
Sensor Technology, Monitoring of Vital Parameters
Vital data acquisition forms the patient’s front-end, where vital signs will be monitored using advanced measurement technology like sensing devices. The objective will be to perform measurement at patient’s home and to deliver the data automatically to a processing environment that is accessible by the doctor.
Unit 2 | Smart Infrastructure
Spokespersons
Prof. Dr. Maria Maleshkova, Dr. Christian Weber
AI and Cloud Technology, AI-enabled medical data processing
AI-enabled medical data processing will analyze the patient’s data and will carry out a pre-assessment for the doctor by e. g. putting the data in relation to large amounts of already existing data by means of AI in order to support the physician’s findings and diagnosis for an optimum treatment. This will save cost and effort while being less error prone at the same time.
Unit 3 | Multilateral Benefits
Spokesperson
Dr. Thomas Neumann
Digitally supported forms of medical feedback and care
The final data assessment and the subsequent information of the patients with regard to the consequences, e.g. for the further course of therapy, is matter of the doctor. This research field includes all aspects of benefit assessment, communication design and acceptance analysis regarding the requirements of both physicians and patients.
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Rainer Brück em.
Spokesperson Unit 1 „Advanced Measurement Technology“
Chair Healthcare Informatics and Microfabrication
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Hahn
Spokesperson Unit 1 „Advanced Measurement Technology“
Scientific Researcher Healthcare Informatics and Microfabrication
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Projects: DataHealth
Prof. Dr. Maria Maleshkova
Spokesperson Unit 2 „Smart Infrastructure“ (Cloud/KI)
Chair Data Engineering
Helmut-Schmidt-University
Research Interests
Distributed architectures and interoperability of IT systems, methods of digitalization, semantic technologies, knowledge management, question-answer systems and decision support systems
Dr. Christian Weber
Spokesperson Unit 2 „Smart Infrastructure“ (Cloud/KI)
Vice Chair Medical Data Science
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Scientific Researcher Knowledge-based Systems & Knowledge Management
Faculty IV, University of Siegen
Research Interests
Data Mining and Machine Learning, Semantic Technologies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Cyber-physical Systems and Industry 4.0 Applications
Dr. Thomas Neumann
Spokesperson Unit 3 „Multilateral Benefits“ (Feedback/Care)
Research Interests
Health services research and health economics, behavioral and experimental economics, implementation and evaluation research, health technology assessment
Projects: Telemed at ATN
Janine Taplan
Organization „Digital Practice“ Research Group
Associate Digital Model Region Healthcare Tripoint (DMGD)
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Jennifer Daniel Onwuchekwa
Unit 2
Scientific Researcher Medical Data Science
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Joanna Albrecht
Unit 3
Scientific Researcher Digital Public Health
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Projects: DiPHAD
Lea Stark-Blomeier
Unit 3
Scientific Researcher Digital Public Health
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Projects: TelReKo
Mubaris Nadeem
Unit 2
Scientific Researcher Knowledge-based Systems & Knowledge Management
Faculty IV, University of Siegen
Research Interests
App-Development (Android/iOS) for Healthcare, Application Development in Medicine, Knowledge Graph, Machine Learning
PD Dr. Steffen Unkel
Unit 3
Vice Chair Methods, Statistics and Epidemiology
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Senior Research Associate, Department of Medical Statistics
University Medical Center Göttingen
Research Interests
Event time analyses, multivariate methods, computational statistics
Projects: Frailty
Pinar Tokgöz
Scientific Researcher Digital Public Health
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Projects: KINBIOTICS, DiPHAD
Prof. Dr. Christoph Dockweiler
Unit 3
Chair Digital Public Health
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Research Interests
Analysis of the impact, implementation and use of interventions in the field of Digital Public Health with a focus on questions of user orientation and the application of methods of participatory health services research
Projects: Overview
Prof. Dr. Dr. Bodo Vogt
Unit 3
Chair Empirical Economic Research
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Prof. Dr. Florian Centler
Unit 1
Chair Bioinformatics
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Research Interests
Bioinformatics and systems biology of microbial systems in the context of human health and the One Health approach, simulation of complex systems
Prof. Dr. Julia Haberstroh
Vice Dean Research and Young Academics
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Chair Psychological Gerontology
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Prof. Dr. med. Martin Mücke
Unit 3
Direktor Institut für Digitale Allgemeinmedizin, Vorstandssprecher Zentrum für Seltene Erkrankungen Aachen (ZSEA)
Uniklinik RWTH Aachen
Research Interests
General practitioner care, patients with rare diseases and without a diagnosis
Prof. Dr. med. Nabeel Farhan
Unit 1
Chair Physician Assistance
Europäische Fachhochschule
Research & Teaching Neurosurgery
Diakonie Klinikum Jung-Stilling
Projects: DataHealth
Prof. Dr. med. Veit Braun
Unit 1
Vice Dean Digital Health Care
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Head Physician Neurosurgery, Medical Director
Diakonie Klinikum Jung-Stilling
Projects: DataHealth, Telemed at ATN
Prof. Dr. med. vet. Jan Ehlers
Unit 3
Chair Didactics and Educational Research in Health Care, Vice President Teaching and Learning
Witten/Herdecke University
Research Interests
Research on co-design opportunities in digital health innovations, interprofessional health care, impact of digital transformation on Planetary Health, educational research on skill acquisition regarding participation in digitized health care
Projects: MINDED.ruhr, DIM.ruhr, P-ELAN
Prof. Dr. Simon Forstmeier
Unit 3
Chair Developmental and Clinical Psychology of the Lifespan
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Research Interests
Research at the intersection of lifespan psychology (development from childhood to old age) and clinical psychotherapy (psychotherapy research)
Projects: Overview
Senior Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Carl Friedrich Gethmann
Unit 3
Chair Science Ethics/Medical Ethics
Faculty V, University of Siegen
Research Interests
Philosophy of language / philosophy of logic; phenomenology; applied philosophy (medical ethics / environmental ethics / technology assessment)