Seminar: Digital Health App Design
Background
The German digital health applications (“Digitale Gesundheitsanwendung”, DiGA) provides ground for the rapid time-to-market of health and medical apps. This seminar starts with an international overview on digital health app regulations and introduction to the German DiGA. Key topics include application qualification and data privacy management. Subsequently, practical aspects of digital health app design are discussed and trained in practical implementations. Practical examples include COVID-19 contact tracking, extracting digital biomarkers of sleep and daily routines.
Aim
Realise health/medical smartphone apps, including sensor data acquisition and analysis, apply algorithms to extract digital biomarkers.
Learning Objectives
- Understand regulations concerning digital health apps.
- Apply aspects of critical app qualification, primarily usability and privacy management.
- Develop health apps that extract digital biomarkers from smartphone sensor data.
Data
| Project type | Seminar and Practical |
| ECTS | Default: 5; with additional practical: 7.5 |
| Language | English or German |
| Period | Summer term 2020 |
| Presence time | Virtual seminar, working from remote. |
| Useful knowledge | Embedded programming, sensor pattern analysis, Python |
| Work distribution | 10% regulations & concepts, 40% app design, 30% sensor data analysis, 20% app qualification. |
| Med. Eng. designation | Advanced Context Recognition (ACR) |
| StudOn link | Please join |
| First meeting | Online introduction/Vorbesprechung, see: online-introduction-vorbesprechung-of-summer-term-2020-seminars |
| Registration | Via StudOn, obligatory after introduction. |
Literature
Up-to-date literature recommendations are provided during the meetings.
Examination
Final presentation and final report.
Contact
Prof. Dr. Oliver Amft
- Job title: Director
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-23601