GECKO Institute for Medicine, Computer Science and Economics
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 Logo of the GECKO Institute |
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| Category: | University institute |
| Carrier: | Heilbronn University |
| Seat of the wearer: | Heilbronn |
| Type of research: | Application-oriented research |
| Areas of expertise: | Business Processes, Health Economics and Health Services Research, eLearning in Medicine, Consumer Health Informatics |
| Management: | Wendelin Schramm |
| Employee: | 13 (permanent staff) |
| Homepage: | www.gecko.hs-heilbronn.de |
The GECKO Institute for Medicine, Computer Science and Economics is a research institute of the Heilbronn University founded in 2007 and the lead institute of the university-wide research focus "Digital Living Worlds and Health" with locations on the Sontheim campus and in the Zukunftspark Wohlhotels in Heilbronn . Wendelin Schramm is the director .
Focus of work
The main focus of the institute's work are the topics whose first letters form the acronym of the institute's name.
- Ge health,
- C omputing (computer science),
- K East and
- O utcomes (results),
The aim is interdisciplinary research at the interfaces between medicine and computer science. The institute also serves to closely interlink research and teaching at Heilbronn University and to promote young scientists.
Research priorities
The institute has five main topics
- eLearning in Medicine - in cooperation with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI .
- Health economics and health services research
- Business processes
- Consumer Health Informatics in close cooperation with the Society for Medical Informatics GMDS .
The GECKO Institute significantly supports and coordinates the work of the PROSIT Disease Modeling Community, an international open source platform for the development and provision of health- economic disease models for diabetes mellitus . The models created in the course of the project are under the GNU Free Documentation License . So far, disease models for six diabetes-related diseases ( nephropathy , retinopathy , stroke , diabetic foot syndrome , hypoglycemia and neuropathy ) have been developed in the course of this initiative .
Since 2012 there has been a cooperation with the SLK-Kliniken GmbH, also based in Heilbronn, with the title "Together against cancer", in order to make the data collected in the tumor center of the hospital better usable for research.
GECKO Academy
The GECKO Academy regularly organizes workshops in the field of modeling diseases with the help of Markov models , the participation of which has been certified as a training measure by the Baden-Württemberg State Medical Association.
staff
The GECKO staff consists of 3 professors and a dozen academic staff. The staff is mainly recruited from the courses in medical informatics at Heilbronn University and Heidelberg University . However, the institute is open to all disciplines.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martina Bräsel: Heilbronn University: Financial Times honors GECKO Institute for the Health Economy Ideas Park . Science Information Service, April 19, 2010 (accessed December 17, 2010)
- ↑ Press release from Heilbronn University of February 2012 ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 13, 2013)
- ↑ Press release of the Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences from August 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; accessed on December 17, 2010; 28 kB)
