Prof. Dr. Kerstin Denecke

• Lehre und Forschung

• Co-Lead BFH Centre Health Technologies

• Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

• Textmining, Natural language processing, Artificial Intelligence, Conversational User Interfaces, Mobile Health Applications

• Bachelor Medizininformatik

• Klinische Studien

• Qualitätsmanagement im Gesundheitswesen

• Seminare und Living Cases

• Clinical Apps for Tablets

• Textmining und Information Discovery in der Medizin

• Wissensmanagement und medizinische Ontologien

• Health Web Science

• Natural language processing

• Conversational User Interfaces / Health Chatbots

• Information Discovery in Medizinischen Informationssystemen

• 2004-2007 Medizininformatikerin bei ID GmbH Berlin
• 2007-2012 Wiss. Mitarbeiterin am Forschungszentrum L3S / Leibniz Universität Hannover, Leitung von nationalen und EU-Forschungsprojekten
• 2013-2015 Nachwuchsforschungsgruppenleiterin der Gruppe «Digitales Patientenmodell» an der Universität Leipzig
• Seit August 2015 Medizininformatik-Professur an der BFH
• Seit 2020 Co-Lead BFH Centre Health Technologies
• Chair IMIA Working Group Participatory Health and Social Media

• 2022 Research visit University of Victoria, Canada
• 2019 Research visit University of Auckland, New Zealand
• 2014-2015 Consultant Helmholtz Zentrum für Infektionsforschung

• 2000-2004 Diplom-Informatikerin mit Schwerpunkt Medizininformatik (Diplom Informatik) Technische Universität Braunschweig
• 2004-2008 Promotion zum Dr. rer. net. Technische Universität Braunschweig
• 2011-2012 Diplom-Journalistin Freie Journalistenschule Berlin
• 2021 Bachelor of Music Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle / Saale

• A Chatbot for Self-Anamnesis with an Example in Music Therapy (Hasler Foundation, 2017-18)

• Neue Ansätze der Informationsextraktion (Partner ID Suisse AG, 2016-17)

• Emotion Analyzer (Research Visit funded by SNF)

• Relevance of Semantic Enrichment for Clinical Event Prediction (Hasler Foundation, 2019-20)

• Implementierung eines Suchalgorithmus auf Basis von Deep Learning (Partner: ID Suisse AG, 2017- 2019)

• Denecke, Kerstin; May, Richard (2023). Developing a Technical-oriented Taxonomy to Define Archetypes of Conversational Agents in Healthcare: Systematic Review and Cluster Analysis Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, e41583. 10.2196/41583 <http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/41583>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Baudoin, Claude R. (2022). A Review of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Transformed Health Ecosystems Frontiers in Medicine, 9, pp. 1-13. Frontiers Media 10.3389/fmed.2022.795957 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.795957>

• Denecke, Kerstin; May, Richard (2022). Usability Assessment of Conversational Agents in Healthcare: A Literature Review In: Séroussi, B.; Dhombres, F.; Grouin, C.; Liebe, J.-D.; Pelayo, S.; Pinna, A.; Rance, B.; Sacchi, L.; Ugon, A.; Benis, A.; Gallos, P. (eds.) Proceedings of MIE 2022: Challenges of Trustable AI and Added-Value on Health. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 294 (pp. 169-173). IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI220431 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220431>

• Kaufmann, Beatrice; Olalia, Loraine; Denecke, Kerstin; Lueg, Christopher; Thilo, Friederike J.S.; Drewlow, Joshua; von Kaenel, François; Haldemann, Anouk (15 March 2022). Addressing Communication Challenges in Healthcare In: SHS Public. Basel. 15. März 2022.

• Denecke, Kerstin; Schmid, Nicole; Nüssli, Stephan (2022). Implementation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in e–Mental Health Apps: Literature Review Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(3), pp. 1-13. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, PubMed Central 10.2196/27791 <http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/27791>

• Denecke, Kerstin (2022). Does Enrichment of Clinical Texts by Ontology Concepts Increases Classification Accuracy? MEDINFO 2021: One World, One Health – Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, 290, pp. 602-606. IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI220148 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220148>

• Denecke, Kerstin (2022). Sprechende Bilder – kommunizieren, wenn gemeinsame Worte fehlen spirit biel/bienne: Das Magazin der technischen Disziplinen der Berner Fachhochschule(2), pp. 14-45. Berner Fachhochschule BFH, Architektur, Holz und Bau/Technik und Informatik

• Denecke, Kerstin; Lombardi, Paolo; Nairz, Knud (2022). Digital Medical Interview Assistant for Radiology: Opportunities and Challenges In: Schreier, Günter; Pfeifer, Bernhard; Baumgartner, Martin; Hayn, Dieter (eds.) dHealth 2022. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 293 (pp. 39-46). IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI220345 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220345>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Thilo, Friederike J.S.; Lueg, Christopher; Olalia, Loraine; Haldemann, Anouk; Kaufmann, Beatrice (2022). Participatory Development of an Image-Based Communication Aid for Migrant Patients and Emergency Nurses In: Bürkle, Thomas; Denecke, Kerstin; Holm, Jürgen; Sariyar, Murat (eds.) Healthcare of the Future 2022. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 292 (pp. 15-20). Amsterdam: IOS Press BV 10.3233/SHTI220312 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220312>

• Fuchshofer, Katrin; Merz, Christian; Denecke, Kerstin; Schuster-Amft, Corina (2022). Intervention Platform for Action Observation and Motor Imagery Training After Stroke: Usability Test In: Bürkle, Thomas; Denecke, Kerstin; Holm, Jürgen; Sariyar, Murat; Lehmann, Michael (eds.) Healthcare of the future 2022. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 292 (pp. 71-74). Amsterdam: IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI220324 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220324>

• Larbi, Dillys; Denecke, Kerstin; Gabarron, Elia (2022). Usability Testing of a Social Media Chatbot for Increasing Physical Activity Behavior Journal of Personalized Medicine, 12(5), p. 828. MDPI 10.3390/jpm12050828 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm12050828>

• Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Gabarron, Elia; Miron-Shatz, Talya; Petersen, Carolyn; Denecke, Kerstin (2022). Social Media, Digital Health Literacy, and Digital Ethics in the Light of Health Equity Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2022, 31(01), 082-087. Thieme 10.1055/s-0042-1742503 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1742503>

• Selvasingham, Sugeelan; Denecke, Kerstin (2022). Classifying Numbers from EEG Data – Which Neural Network Architecture Performs Best? In: Bürkle, Thomas; Denecke, Kerstin; Holm, Jürgen; Sariyar, Murat; Lehmann, Michael (eds.) Healthcare of the future 2022. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 292 (pp. 103-106). Amsterdam: IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI220333 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220333>

• Vezzini, Andrea; Affolter, Peter; Tobler, Sebastian; Lauener, Remo; Filliger, Roger; Denecke, Kerstin; Schmidhauser, Arno; Bachmann, Eduard; Näher, Thomas; Meier, Simon (2022). Spirit. 25 Jahre jung – BFH bewegt, (2). Berner Fachhochschule BFH, Architektur, Holz und Bau/Technik und Informatik

• Kaufmann, Beatrice; Denecke, Kerstin; Thilo, Friederike J.S.; Haldemann, Anouk; Lueg, Christopher; Olalia, Loraine (2 October 2021). Can we do better than gesturing? Requirements for a digital communication aid to support non-verbal communication in paediatric emergency care In: MedInfo 2021. 2-4.10.2021.

• Denecke, Kerstin; May, Richard (2023). Developing a Technical-oriented Taxonomy to Define Archetypes of Conversational Agents in Healthcare: Systematic Review and Cluster Analysis Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, e41583. 10.2196/41583 <http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/41583>

• Thilo, Friederike J.S.; Haldemann, Anouk; Denecke, Kerstin; von Kaenel, François; Olalia, Loraine; Kaufmann, Beatrice; (19 August 2022). Mit Bildern die Sprachbarriere überwinden SocietyByte – Wissenschaftsmagazin der Berner Fachhochschule Berner Fachhochschule, Wirtschaft

• Abd-alrazaq, Alaa; AlSaad, Rawan; Aziz, Sarah; Ahmed, Arfan; Denecke, Kerstin; Househ, Mowafa; Farooq, Faisal; Sheikh, Javaid (2022). Wearable artificial intelligence for anxiety and depression: A scoping review (In Press). Journal of Medical Internet Research JMIR Publications 10.2196/preprints.42672 <http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.42672>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Borycki, Elizabeth M.; Kushniruk, Andre W. (2022). What Can We Learn from Quality Requirements in ISO/TS 82304-2 for Evaluating Conversational Agents in Healthcare? In: Blobel, Bernd; Yang, Bian; Giacomini, Mauro (eds.) pHealth 2022, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health – 8–10 November 2022 Oslo. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 299 (pp. 245-250). Oslo: IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI220992 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220992>

• Deng, Yihan; Denecke, Kerstin (2022). Classification of user queries according to a hierarchical medical procedure encoding system using an ensemble classifier Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 5(5) Frontiers Research Foundation 10.3389/frai.2022.1000283 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frai.2022.1000283>

• Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Gabarron, Elia; Miron-Shatz, Talya; Petersen, Carolyn; Denecke, Kerstin (2022). Social Media, Digital Health Literacy, and Digital Ethics in the Light of Health Equity Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2022, 31(01), 082-087. Thieme 10.1055/s-0042-1742503 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1742503>

• Zgraggen, Cyril R.; Kunz, Sebastian B.; Denecke, Kerstin (2021). Crowdsourcing for Creating a Dataset for Training a Medication Chatbot In: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 281 (pp. 1102-1103). IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI210364 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210364>

• Uhr, Vinzenz; Gauch, Marc T.; Denecke, Kerstin (2021). Operations Management in Ambulatory Care in Switzerland In: Navigating Healthcare Through Challenging Times. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 279 (pp. 10-17). IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI210082 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210082>

• Romao, Patricia; Neuenschwander, Stefanie; Denecke, Kerstin; Nüssli, Stephan (2021). Digital Health Intervention to Support Refugees in Switzerland In: Navigating Healthcare Through Challenging Times. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 279 (pp. 95-102). IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI210094 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210094>

• Gashi, Floriana; Regli, Selina F.; May, Richard; Tschopp, Philipp; Denecke, Kerstin (2021). Developing Intelligent Interviewers to Collect the Medical History: Lessons Learned and Guidelines In: Navigating Healthcare Through Challenging Times. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 279 (pp. 18-25). IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI210083 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210083>

• Gabarron, Elia; Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Miron-Shatz, Talya; Grainger, Rebecca; Denecke, Kerstin (2021). Role of Participatory Health Informatics in Detecting and Managing Pandemics: Literature Review Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 30(01), pp. 200-209. Thieme 10.1055/s-0041-1726486 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1726486>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Gabarron, Elia; Petersen, Carolyn; Merolli, Mark (2021). Defining participatory health informatics – a scoping review Informatics for Health and Social Care, 46(3), pp. 234-243. Taylor & Francis online 10.1080/17538157.2021.1883028 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538157.2021.1883028>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Gabarron, Elia (2021). How Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Look Like in the Future? In: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 281 (pp. 860-864). IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI210301 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210301>

• Denecke, Kerstin (2021). What Characterizes Safety of Ambient Assisted Living Technologies? In: Public Health and Informatics. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 281 (pp. 704-708). IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI210263 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210263>

• Abd-Alrazaq, Alaa A; Alajlani, Mohannad; Ali, Nashva; Denecke, Kerstin; Bewick, Bridgette M; Househ, Mowafa (2021). Patients’ perceptions and opinions about mental health chatbots: A scoping review (Preprint) Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(1), e17828. 10.2196/17828 <http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/17828>

• Fernandez-Luque, Luis; Kushniruk, Andre W.; Georgiou, Andrew; Basu, Arindam; Petersen, Carolyn; Ronquillo, Charlene; Paton, Chris; Nøhr, Christian; Kuziemsky, Craig E.; Alhuwail, Dari; Skiba, Diane; Huesing, Elaine; Gabarron, Elia; Borycki, Elizabeth M.; Magrabi, Farah; Denecke, Kerstin; Peute, Linda W. P.; Topaz, Max; Al-Shorbaji, Najeeb; Lacroix, Paulette; ... (2020). Evidence-Based Health Informatics as the Foundation for the COVID-19 Response: A Joint Call for Action Methods of Information in Medicine, 59(06), pp. 183-192. Thieme 10.1055/s-0041-1726414 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1726414>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Abd_Alrazaq, Alaa; Househ, Mowafah (2021). Artificial Intelligence for Chatbots in Mental Health: Opportunities and Challenges In: Multiple Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: From Challenges to Opportunities. Lecture Notes in Bioengineering (pp. 115-128). Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-67303-1 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67303-1>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Abd-Alrazaq, Alaa; Househ, Mowafa; Warren, Jim (2021). Evaluation Metrics for Health Chatbots: A Delphi Study Methods of Information in Medicine, 60(05/06), pp. 171-179. Thieme 10.1055/s-0041-1736664 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1736664>

• May, Richard; Denecke, Kerstin (2021). Security, privacy, and healthcare-related conversational agents: a scoping review Informatics for Health and Social Care, 47(2), pp. 194-210. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/17538157.2021.1983578 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538157.2021.1983578>

• Larbi, Dillys; Gabarron, Elia; Denecke, Kerstin (2021). Social Media Chatbot for Increasing Physical Activity: Usability Study In: pHealth 2021. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 285 (pp. 227-232). IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI210604 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210604>

• Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Stathis, Konstantinidis; Denecke, Kerstin; Gabarrón, Elia; Petersen, Carolyn; Househ, Mowafa; Merolli, Mark; Mayer, Miguel Ángel (2020). Ethical Considerations for Participatory Health through Social Media: Healthcare Workforce and Policy Maker Perspectives Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 29(01), 071-076. Thieme 10.1055/s-0040-1701981 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1701981>

• Meier, Lea; Bauer, Jan Gabriel; Denecke, Kerstin (2020). Speech-based Documentation in Emergency Medical Services with the Electronic Language Interface for Ambulance Services In: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI) (pp. 1-6). IEEE 10.1109/ICHI48887.2020.9374336 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICHI48887.2020.9374336>

• May, Richard; Denecke, Kerstin (2020). Extending Patient Education with CLAIRE: An Interactive Virtual Reality and Voice User Interface Application In: Addressing Global Challenges and Quality Education. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 12315 (pp. 482-486). Cham: Springer 10.1007/978-3-030-57717-9_49 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57717-9_49>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Schneider, Carlotta L.; Hertenstein, Elisabeth; Nissen, Christoph (2020). SLEEPexpert App – A Mobile Application to Support Insomnia Treatment for Patients with Severe Psychiatric Disorders In: Integrated Citizen Centered Digital Health and Social Care. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 275 (pp. 42-46). IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI200691 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI200691>

• Denecke, Kerstin; May, Richard; Pöpel, Annkathrin; Lutz Hochreutener, Sandra (2020). Can a chatbot increase the motivation to provide personal health information? Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 273, pp. 85-90. IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI200619 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI200619>

• Christen, Oliver M.; Mösching, Yannic; Müller, Patrik; Denecke, Kerstin; Nüssli, Stephan (2020). Dashboard Visualization of Information for Emergency Medical Services In: Integrated Citizen Centered Digital Health and Social Care. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 275 (pp. 27-31). IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI200688 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI200688>

• Abd-Alrazaq, Alaa; Safi, Zeineb; Alajlani, Mohannad; Warren, Jim; Househ, Mowafa; Denecke, Kerstin (2020). Technical Metrics Used to Evaluate Health Care Chatbots: Scoping Review Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(6), e18301. JMIR 10.2196/18301 <http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/18301>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Vaaheesan, Sayan; Arulnathan, Aaganya (2020). A Mental Health Chatbot for Regulating Emotions (SERMO) - Concept and Usability Test IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 14(8), p. 1. IEEE 10.1109/TETC.2020.2974478 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2020.2974478>

• Denecke, Kerstin (2020). Biomedical Standards and Open Health Data In: Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences (pp. 521-531). Elsevier 10.1016/b978-0-12-801238-3.11527-2 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-801238-3.11527-2>

• Gabarron, Elia; Larbi, Dillys; Denecke, Kerstin; Årsand, Eirik (2020). What Do We Know About the Use of Chatbots for Public Health? Studies in health technology and informatics, 270, pp. 796-800. IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI200270 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI200270>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Warren, Jim (2020). How to Evaluate Health Applications with Conversational User Interface? Studies in health technology and informatics, 270, pp. 976-980. IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI200307 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI200307>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Meier, Lea; Bauer, Jan G; Bender, Matthias; Lueg, Christopher (2020). Information Capturing in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medical Settings (EMS) Studies in health technology and informatics, 270, pp. 613-617. IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI200233 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI200233>

• Reichenpfader, Daniel; Glauser, Robin Paul; Dugas, Martin; Denecke, Kerstin (2020). Assessing and Improving the Usability of the Medical Data Models Portal Studies in health technology and informatics, 271, pp. 199-206. IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI200097 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI200097>

• Nüssli, Stephan; Schmidt, Thierry; Denecke, Kerstin (2020). How to Motivate Children with Severe Disabilities to Adhere to Their Therapy? Studies in health technology and informatics, 271, pp. 168-175. IOS Press 10.3233/SHTI200093 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI200093>

• Strickler, Moritz; Zbinden, Chantal; Saccilotto, Ramon; Denecke, Kerstin (2019). A Concept for a Data Dictionary System Supporting for Clinical Research Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 258, pp. 158-162. IOS Press 10.3233/978-1-61499-959-1-158 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-959-1-158>

• Möri, Nora; Bürki, Jeannine; de Oliveira Matos, Priscilla; Düllmann, Philippe; Fricker, Guillaume; Gehri, Yannick; Glauser, Robin Paul; Gund, Yann; Haller, Cynthia; Kilchherr, Sabine; Landolt, Andy; Leuenberger, Luca; Lüscher, Lisa; Müller, Nicole; Schwarz, Marco; Sinnappah, Thevian; Uthayathas, Gausegan; Drewlow, Joshua (2019). Does eHealth Literacy Impact Patients' Opinion on the EHR? Studies in health technology and informatics, 259, pp. 95-98. 10.3233/978-1-61499-961-4-95 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-961-4-95>

• Kyburz, Philip; Gfeller, Sascha; Bürkle, Thomas; Denecke, Kerstin (2019). Exchanging Appointment Data Among Healthcare Institutions Studies in health technology and informatics, 260, pp. 33-40. 10.3233/978-1-61499-971-3-33 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-971-3-33>

• Hess, Gabriel Immanuel; Fricker, Guillaume; Denecke, Kerstin (2019). Improving and Evaluating eMMA's Communication Skills: A Chatbot for Managing Medication Studies in health technology and informatics, 259, pp. 101-104. 10.3233/978-1-61499-961-4-101 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-961-4-101>

• Deng, Yihan; Sander, André; Faulstich, Lukas; Denecke, Kerstin (2019). Towards automatic encoding of medical procedures using convolutional neural networks and autoencoders Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 93, pp. 29-42. Elsevier 10.1016/j.artmed.2018.10.001 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2018.10.001>

• Deng, Yihan; Dolog, Peter; Gass, Jorn-Markus; Denecke, Kerstin (2019). Obesity Entity Extraction from Real Outpatient Records: When Learning-Based Methods Meet Small Imbalanced Medical Data Sets In: 2019 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) (pp. 411-416). IEEE 10.1109/CBMS.2019.00087 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2019.00087>

• Denecke, Kerstin; van Harmelen, Frank (2019). Recent advances in extracting and processing rich semantics from medical texts Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 93, pp. 11-12. Elsevier 10.1016/j.artmed.2018.07.004 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2018.07.004>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Tschanz, Mauro; Dorner, Tim Lucas; May, Richard (2019). Intelligent Conversational Agents in Healthcare: Hype or Hope? Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 259, pp. 77-84. IOS Press 10.3233/978-1-61499-961-4-77 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-961-4-77>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Nüssli, Stephan (2019). Das digitalisierte Spital von übermorgen Competence, 5, pp. 12-13. Jean Frey AG

• Denecke, Kerstin; Jolo, Patrick; Sevinc, Burcu; Nüssli, Stephan (2019). Creating Individualized Education Material for Diabetes Patients Using the eDiabetes Platform Studies in health technology and informatics, 260, pp. 1-8. 10.3233/978-1-61499-971-3-1 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-971-3-1>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Hochreutener, Sandra; Pöpel, Annkathrin; May, Richard (2019). Self-Anamnesis with a Conversational User Interface: Concept and Usability Study Methods of Information in Medicine, 57(05/06), pp. 243-252. Thieme 10.1055/s-0038-1675822 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1675822>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Bignens, Serge; Bürkle, Thomas; Kim, Sang-Il; Lehmann, Michael; Nüssli, Stephan; Sariyar, Murat; Holm, Jürgen (2019). Elisabeth Brönnimann und ihr Weg durch das Gesundheitssystem – Digitale Transformation aus Patientensicht In: Digitale Transformation von Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen VI (pp. 259-280). Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 10.1007/978-3-658-25461-2_14 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25461-2_14>

• Denecke, Kerstin (2019). Von Clustern und differenzierter Dissonanz: Die Kompositionen von Hans Eugen Frischknecht Musik und Gottesdienst(6), pp. 4-7.

• Denecke, Kerstin (2019). Schweizer Orgelbau und Winddynamik Ars organi, 67(2), pp. 107-111. Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde e.V.

• Bürkle, Thomas; Lehmann, Michael; Holm, Jürgen; Sariyar, Murat; Zetz, Erwin; Denecke, Kerstin (2019). Cross-Institutional Pathway Guidance - Chance or Extra Burden? Studies in health technology and informatics, 259, pp. 13-18. IOS Press 10.3233/978-1-61499-961-4-13 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-961-4-13>

• Arulnathan, Aaganya; Vaaheesan, Sayan; Denecke, Kerstin (2019). A Mobile Application for Self-monitoring for Patients with Heart Failure Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 259, pp. 113-116. IOS Press 10.3233/978-1-61499-961-4-113 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-961-4-113>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Gabarron, Elia; Grainger, Rebecca; Konstantinidis, Stathis Th; Lau, Annie; Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Miron-Shatz, Talya; Merolli, Mark (2019). Artificial Intelligence for Participatory Health: Applications, Impact, and Future Implications Yearbook of medical informatics, 28(1), pp. 165-173. Thieme 10.1055/s-0039-1677902 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1677902>

• Hamidi, Massah; Mahendran, Piratheepan; Denecke, Kerstin (2019). Towards a Digital Lean Hospital: Concept for a Digital Patient Board and Its Integration with a Hospital Information System. Studies in health technology and informatics, 264, pp. 606-610. 10.3233/SHTI190294 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI190294>

• Denecke, Kerstin; May, Richard; Deng, Yihan (2019). Towards Emotion-Sensitive Conversational User Interfaces in Healthcare Applications Studies in health technology and informatics, 264, pp. 1164-1168. 10.3233/SHTI190409 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI190409>

• Schmidt, Thierry; Kocher, Dominik R; Mahendran, Piratheepan; Denecke, Kerstin (2019). Dynamic Pocket Card for Implementing ISBAR in Shift Handover Communication. Studies in health technology and informatics, 267, pp. 224-229. 10.3233/SHTI190831 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI190831>

• Nedovic, Tanja; Umeri-Sali, Nesljihan; Denecke, Kerstin (2019). Supporting Blind and Visually Impaired Persons in Managing Their Medication. Studies in health technology and informatics, 267, pp. 189-196. 10.3233/SHTI190826 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI190826>

• Adeoye, Olawunmi Olubunmi; Tom-Aba, Daniel; Ameh, Celestine Attah; Ojo, Olubunmi Eyitayo; Ilori, Elsie Anengiyefa; Gidado, Saheed Olutoyin; Waziri, Endie Ndadilnasiya; Nguku, Patrick Mboya; Mall, Sabine; Denecke, Kerstin; Lamshoeft, Maike; Schwarz, Norbert George; Krause, Gerard; Poggensee, Gabriele (2017). Implementing Surveillance and Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) for Public Health in West Africa-Lessons Learnt and Future Direction International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health, 22(2), pp. 1-17. Sciencedomain International 10.9734/IJTDH/2017/31584 <http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/IJTDH/2017/31584>

• Tom-Aba, Daniel; Toikkanen, Salla E.; Glöckner, Stephan; Adeoye, Olawunmi; Mall, Sabine; Fähnrich, Cindy; Denecke, Kerstin; Benzler, Justus; Kirchner, Göran; Schwarz, Norbert; Poggensee, Gabriele; Silenou, Bernard C.; Ameh, Celestine A.; Nguku, Patrick; Olubunmi, Ojo; Ihekweazu, Chikwe; Krause, Gérard (2018). User Evaluation Indicates High Quality of the Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) After Field Deployment in Nigeria in 2015 and 2018 Studies in health technology and informatics, 253, pp. 233-237. 10.3233/978-1-61499-896-9-233 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-896-9-233>

• Schmocker, Kaspar S.; Zwahlen, Fabian S.; Denecke, Kerstin (2018). A Mobile App for Simplifying Life With Diabetes : Technical Description and Usability Study of GlucoMan JMIR Diabetes, 3(1), pp. 1-8. JMIR Publications 10.2196/diabetes.8160 <http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/diabetes.8160>

• Perscheid, Cindy; Benzler, Justus; Hermann, Claus; Janke, Michael; Moyer, David; Laedtke, Todd; Adeoye, Olawunmi; Denecke, Kerstin; Kirchner, Göran; Beermann, Sandra; Schwarz, Norbert; Tom-Aba, Daniel; Krause, Gérard (2018). Ebola Outbreak Containment: Real-Time Task and Resource Coordination With SORMAS Frontiers in ICT, 5 10.3389/fict.2018.00007 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fict.2018.00007>

• Kropf, Stefan; Uciteli, Alexandr; Schierle, Katrin; Krücken, Peter; Denecke, Kerstin; Herre, Heinrich (2018). Querying archetype-based EHRs by search ontology-based XPath engineering Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 9(1), pp. 1-14. BioMed Central 10.1186/s13326-018-0180-2 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13326-018-0180-2>

• Deng, Yihan; Bürkle, Thomas; Holm, Jürgen; Zetz, Erwin; Denecke, Kerstin (2018). Last Mile Towards Efficient Healthcare Delivery in Switzerland: eHealth Enabled Applications Could Speed Up the Care Process In: Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data: The Future of Co-Created eHealth. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 247 (pp. 251-255). IOS Press 10.3233/978-1-61499-852-5-251 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-852-5-251>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Lutz Hochreutener, Sandra; Pöpel, Annkathrin; May, Richard (2018). Talking to Ana : A Mobile Self-Anamnesis Application with Conversational User Interface In: 2018 International Conference on Digital Health. Lyon / France. 23.04.2018 - 26.04.2018. 10.1145/3194658.3194670 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3194658.3194670>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Kyburz, Philip; Gfeller, Sascha; Deng, Yihan; Bürkle, Thomas (2018). A Concept for Improving Cross-Sector Care by a Mobile Patient Navigator App In: Decision Support Systems and Education: Help and Support in Healthcare. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 255 (pp. 160-164). IOS Press 10.3233/978-1-61499-921-8-160 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-921-8-160>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Dittli, Pascal A.; Kanagarasa, Niveadha; Nüssli, Stephan (2018). Facilitating the Information Exchange Using a Modular Electronic Discharge Summary In: Health Informatics Meets eHealth. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 248 (pp. 72-79). IOS Press 10.3233/978-1-61499-858-7-72 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-858-7-72>

• Bürkle, Thomas; Denecke, Kerstin; Lehmann, Michael (2018). conhIT: eHealth - die Spahn-ung steigt! Clinicum, 3(18), pp. 36-44.

• Tschanz, Mauro; Dorner, Tim Lucas; Holm, Jürgen; Denecke, Kerstin (2018). Using eMMA to manage medication Computer, 51(8), pp. 18-25. IEEE 10.1109/MC.2018.3191254 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2018.3191254>

• Tschanz, Mauro; Dorner, Tim Lucas; Denecke, Kerstin (2017). eMedication Meets eHealth with the Electronic Medication Management Assistant (eMMA). Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 236, pp. 196-203. 10.3233/978-1-61499-759-7-196 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-759-7-196>

• Murbach, Michael; Martin, Sabine; Denecke, Kerstin; Nüssli, Stephan (2017). A First Standardized Swiss Electronic Maternity Record Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 236, pp. 248-253. IOS Press 10.3233/978-1-61499-759-7-248 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-759-7-248>

• Kropf, Stefan; Krücken, Peter; Müller, Wolf; Denecke, Kerstin (2017). Structuring Legacy Pathology Reports by openEHR Archetypes to Enable Semantic Querying Methods of Information in Medicine, 56(3), pp. 230-237. 10.3414/ME16-01-0073 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME16-01-0073>

• Kropf, Stefan; Chalopin, Chalopin; Lindner, Dirk; Denecke, Kerstin (2017). Domain Modeling and Application Development of an Archetype- and XML-based EHRS : Practical Experiences and Lessons Learnt. Applied Clinical Informatics, 8(2), pp. 660-679. PubMed Central 10.4338/ACI-2017-01-RA-0009 <http://dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2017-01-RA-0009>

• Deng, Yihan; Faulstich, Lukas; Denecke, Kerstin (2017). Concept Embedding for Relevance Detection of Search Queries Regarding CHOP. Studies in health technology and informatics, 245, p. 1260.

• Deng, Yihan; Denecke, Kerstin (2017). Patient Records Retrieval System for Integrated Care in Treatment of Cervical Spine Defects In: Wang, Fusheng; Yao, Lixia; Luo, Gang (eds.) Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare. Second International Workshop, DMAH 2016, Held at VLDB 2016, New Delhi, India, September 9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers 10186 (pp. 10-25). Springer 10.1007/978-3-319-57741-8_2 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57741-8_2>

• Deng, Yihan; Bürkle, Thomas; Denecke, Kerstin (2017). Who should be empowered for an efficient first diagnosis?. Patient or general practitioner? In: 62. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik - Biometrie und Epidemiologie e. V. (GMDS). Oldenburg / Deutschland. 17.-21.09.2017.

• Denecke, Kerstin; Lehmann, Michael; Holm, Jürgen (2017). Wir sind (auch) Berliner! Studierende der Berner Fachhochschule durchforsteten die conhIT Clinicum, 3/2017, pp. 22-31.

• Denecke, Kerstin; Dorner, Tim Lucas; Iseli, Rea; Mele, Sarah; Tschanz, Mauro; Viehl, Carsten T; Lehmann, Michael; Bürkle, Thomas (2017). A Mobile Cancer Follow-up Care Plan for Patient Empowerment Journal of Health & Medical Informatics, 8(3), pp. 268-273. 10.4172/2157-7420.1000268 <http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2157-7420.1000268>

• Denecke, Kerstin (2017). A Mobile System for Music Anamnesis and Receptive Music Therapy in the Personal Home. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 245, pp. 54-58. IOS Press 10.3233/978-1-61499-830-3-54 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-830-3-54>

• Denecke, Kerstin (2017). Concept-Based Retrieval from Critical Incident Reports Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 236, pp. 1-7. IOS Press 10.3233/978-1-61499-759-7-1 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-759-7-1>

• Denecke, Kerstin (2017). An ethical assessment model for digital disease detection technologies. Life Sciences, Society and Policy, 13(16), pp. 1-11. BioMed Central 10.1186/s40504-017-0062-x <http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40504-017-0062-x>

• Denecke, Kerstin (2016). Integrating Social Media and Mobile Sensor Data for Clinical Decision Support: Concept and Requirements In: Nursing Informatics 2016. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 225 (pp. 562-566). IOS Press 10.3233/978-1-61499-658-3-562 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-658-3-562>

• Denecke, Kerstin (2016). Automatic Analysis of Critical Incident Reports: Requirements and Use Cases In: Health Informatics Meets eHealth. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 223 (pp. 85-92). IOS Press 10.3233/978-1-61499-645-3-85 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-645-3-85>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Atique, Suleman (2016). Social Media and Health crisis Communication During Epidemics In: Syed-Abdul, Shabbir (ed.) Participatory Health through Social Media (pp. 42-66). Amsterdam: Elsevier, Academic press 10.1016/B978-0-12-809269-9.00004-9 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809269-9.00004-9>

• Denecke, Kerstin; Deng, Yihan; Declerck, Thierry (2016). Extraction and Processing of Rich Semantics from Medical Texts In: RichMedSem 2016. Anissaras / Greece. 29.05-02.06.2016.

• Deng, Yihan; Denecke, Kerstin (2016). Aspect-Oriented Visualization of the Health Status: An Example in Treatment of Cervical Spine Defect In: Exploring Complexity in Health: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Vol. 228 (pp. 18-22). IOS Press 10.3233/978-1-61499-678-1-18 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-678-1-18>

• Deng, Yihan; Gaebel, Jan; Denecke, Kerstin (2016). Patient Centered Event Representation for the Treatment of Multifactorial Diseases: Current Progress and Challenges In: Exploring Complexity in Health: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics (pp. 110-114). IOS Press 10.3233/978-1-61499-678-1-110 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-678-1-110>

• Hors-Fraile, S.; Atique, S.; Mayer, M. A.; Denecke, Kerstin; Merolli, M.; Househ, M. (2016). The Unintended Consequences of Social Media in Healthcare : New Problems and New Solutions IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 2016, pp. 47-52. Thieme 10.15265/IY-2016-009 <http://dx.doi.org/10.15265/IY-2016-009>

• Kropf, Stefan; Uciteli, Alexandr; Krücken, Peter; Denecke, Kerstin; Herre, Heinrich (2016). Querying standardized EHRs by a Search Ontology XML extension (SOX). In: 7th Workshop of the GI Workgroup OBML. Halle. 29.09.2016 - 30.09.2016.

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• IMIA Working Group Participatory Health and Social Media

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• Nesljihan Umeri-Sali, Tanja Nedovic Mobiles Medikationsmanagement 2019

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• Vinzenz Nathan Uhr, Marc Thomas Gauch Feinplanungstool für die Arztpraxis 2020

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• Daniel Schmid, Denis Sumin Moser Fading Fatigue 2.0 2023

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• Yihan Deng PhD thesis: Medical text classification from clinical narratives 2019

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