Digital Health, DTU Health Tech
DTU Health Tech advances health and quality of life through innovative technologies in prevention, diagnostics, and treatment. The department combines expertise from fields like physics, biology, and computer science to create sustainable healthcare.
The Digital Health section researches digital technologies for health, healthcare, life science, and society to enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery and make healthcare more personalized and precise. As an interdisciplinary scientific discipline, Digital Health involves using information and communication technologies to address the health problems and challenges faced by patients and society in general. The section works with a wide range of both hardware and software technologies, including wearable medical devices, biomedical signal processing, brain-computer interfaces, human-computer interfaces, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile & wearable sensing, personalized health technology, telemedicine, remote health monitoring, clinical support systems, and large-scale health data science infrastructures for collection, management, and analysis of health and well-being data. It advances in diagnostics, treatment, and monitoring of a wide range of health and well-being domains, including psychiatry (e.g., depression and bipolar disorders), cognitive decline (e.g., dementia), neurological disorders (e.g., epilepsy and Parkinson's), cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes.