Health & Engineering
This structure intends to federate engineers and health professionals and managers for common achievements of new products, applied research and development, teaching or job creation.
The platform is maintained by the business and engineering school "Haute Ecole d’Ingénierie et de Gestion du canton de Vaud" (HEIG-VD) and health school "Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud" (HESAV), that are part of the University of Applied Science and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO).
The main goal of this platform is to federate the various trades of health, engineering and management in order to provide an optimal job framework for everyone. The framework also includes services suited for optimizing the collaboration between the different worlds.
Our skills
Projects
The research and development projects carried out within the framework of the platform are achievements of the platform's actors. The Platform itself does not decide which projects are funded (it has no means of funding of its own for the time being), but it does support the development, implementation and publication of these projects by using the network of expertise at its disposal and by organising regular events at our two schools to present the achievements and further expand the circle of relations.
The platform intends to play an important role in relation to industry and medical and social-medical institutions by offering its skills and expertise for the implementation of mandates and for technology transfer. The platform's achievements are highly oriented towards applied research and are therefore immediately usable with a minimal process of industrialisation.
Impact study on pharmacy automatisation
SUBSTITUTIONS
BB-Sensors
INPHINITY
μ-Bio-Systems
Impact study on pharmacy automatisation
SUBSTITUTIONS
BB-Sensors
INPHINITY
μ-Bio-Systems
Teaching
Bachelor
Master
Continuous learning
The HEIG-VD and the HESAV offer Bachelor's courses in the fields of HES-SO - Economics and Services and Engineering and Architecture as well as Health - in the following three modes of training: full-time (PT) over 6 semesters and in employment (EE) or part-time (TP) over 8 semesters.
Teaching
A medium-term objective of this Engineering & Health platform is the development of coherent teaching in medical engineering. For example, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) has estimated, in 2012, that several hundred medical IT engineers will be missing over the next few years. This shortfall cannot be compensated for by simple immigration and "on-the-job" training, as it is true that the increasingly complex problems involve the hiring of increasingly qualified personnel, and consequently require increasingly specialised training. This is true for IT, but it is also true for other engineering disciplines with applications in the medical field.
Conversely, the tools facing healthcare professionals are increasingly complex and sophisticated, and the knowledge required to handle them adequately is less and less trivial. A smartphone handled on a daily basis potentially contains a considerable amount of information, some of which may be confidential and subject to medical secrecy. It therefore seems inevitable, in the long term, to introduce awareness courses on this kind of issue in the regular education of nurses, midwives and other traditional health professions.
Without wishing to set itself objectives that are probably not very relevant in the current state of thinking, the Engineering & Health platform is seeking to promote partially joint teaching, possibly starting with bachelor's work bringing together students from both training courses in the same project.
The activities
An overview of current and past events in which we will participate or have participated.
Jan 27
AI Days
The 2025 edition of AI-Days will take place from January 27 to 29, 2025, in Geneva (January 27 and 28) and Lausanne (January 29). The AI-Days of the HES-SO Engineering and Architecture Department are organized by the Swiss AI Center for SMEs. The aim of the event is to provide a forum for discussing the practical use of new artificial intelligence technologies in the economic fabric.
Nov 21
BioAlps Networking Day 2024
BioAlps' annual flagship event attracts each year around 300 key players from the Swiss Health Valley region: representatives from academia, startups, government, and media gather to share the latest trends in life sciences and connect with each other.
Nov 16
Festival Planète Santé
Comment les technologies de la santé permettent-elles un accompagnement ludique des patient·es avec une prothèse totale du genou ?
Nov 16
Oct 16
THE SPOT
Innovation with purpose, learning from other sectors and industries, and networking are at the heart of THE SPOT, the international sport and innovation event organised by ThinkSport.
Oct 7
Swiss Federal Offices Day 2024
Swiss Federal Offices Day comes back to EPFL!
Sep 18
Novel Imaging Techniques in the Field of Ophthalmology and Vision
The “Novel Imaging Techniques in the Field of Ophthalmology and Vision” took place in Sion on September 18, with the aim of highlighting recent innovations in ocular imaging. Topics covered included segmentation of the eye, eye-brain dynamics, the integration of functional vision sensors and the application of artificial intelligence for MRI, aimed at fostering early detection of ophthalmic diseases and developing personalized treatments.
Mar 23
Journée Portes Ouvertes 2024 HEIG-VD
Le samedi 23 mars 2024 a eu lieu la journée portes ouvertes de la Haute École d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du canton de Vaud (HEIG-VD) sur le site de Cheseaux, Yverdon-les-bains. Chaque année, les Portes Ouvertes de la HEIG-VD sont l'occasion de célébrer l'innovation lors d'un événement immersif. Offrant un aperçu fascinant de ses filières d'études et de ses projets de Recherche appliquée et développement, plus de 100 activités, ateliers, et animations vous attendent pour une expérience enrichissante et immersive.
Feb 6
2ème édition des AI Days
Le 6 et le 7 février 2024 a eu lieu la 2ème édition des AI Days organisée par le Centre Suisse d’Intelligence Artificielle pour les PME (CSIA-PME) de la HES-SO. Cet événement a donné une vue des activités du CSIA et de la recherche appliquée en IA au service des entreprises, et avait comme objectif de tisser des liens de collaborations entre les chercheurs et les ingénieurs de la HES-SO et les entreprises évoluant dans le domaine de l’IA.
Feb 1
Journée Recherche et Innovation 2024
Le 1er février 2024 la Journée Recherche et Innovation (JRI) annuelle de la HEIG-VD consacrée à la thématique « Collaborer pour innover à l’ère du numérique » a mis en lumière des activités de recherche appliquée et développement qui se déroulent actuellement au sein de l’école en collaboration avec des entreprises et acteurs du tissu économique régional. A cette occasion, notre projet financé par Innosuisse « Système de conseil aux producteurs de fruits utilisant un dendromètre de fruits connecté, des données microclimatiques et des algorithmes d'apprentissage automatique » a fait l’objet d’une présentation par prof. Laura Elena Raileanu.
Jan 27
AI Days
The 2025 edition of AI-Days will take place from January 27 to 29, 2025, in Geneva (January 27 and 28) and Lausanne (January 29). The AI-Days of the HES-SO Engineering and Architecture Department are organized by the Swiss AI Center for SMEs. The aim of the event is to provide a forum for discussing the practical use of new artificial intelligence technologies in the economic fabric.
Nov 21
BioAlps Networking Day 2024
BioAlps' annual flagship event attracts each year around 300 key players from the Swiss Health Valley region: representatives from academia, startups, government, and media gather to share the latest trends in life sciences and connect with each other.
Nov 16
Festival Planète Santé
Comment les technologies de la santé permettent-elles un accompagnement ludique des patient·es avec une prothèse totale du genou ?
Nov 16
Oct 16
THE SPOT
Innovation with purpose, learning from other sectors and industries, and networking are at the heart of THE SPOT, the international sport and innovation event organised by ThinkSport.
Oct 7
Swiss Federal Offices Day 2024
Swiss Federal Offices Day comes back to EPFL!
Sep 18
Novel Imaging Techniques in the Field of Ophthalmology and Vision
The “Novel Imaging Techniques in the Field of Ophthalmology and Vision” took place in Sion on September 18, with the aim of highlighting recent innovations in ocular imaging. Topics covered included segmentation of the eye, eye-brain dynamics, the integration of functional vision sensors and the application of artificial intelligence for MRI, aimed at fostering early detection of ophthalmic diseases and developing personalized treatments.
Mar 23
Journée Portes Ouvertes 2024 HEIG-VD
Le samedi 23 mars 2024 a eu lieu la journée portes ouvertes de la Haute École d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du canton de Vaud (HEIG-VD) sur le site de Cheseaux, Yverdon-les-bains. Chaque année, les Portes Ouvertes de la HEIG-VD sont l'occasion de célébrer l'innovation lors d'un événement immersif. Offrant un aperçu fascinant de ses filières d'études et de ses projets de Recherche appliquée et développement, plus de 100 activités, ateliers, et animations vous attendent pour une expérience enrichissante et immersive.
Feb 6
2ème édition des AI Days
Le 6 et le 7 février 2024 a eu lieu la 2ème édition des AI Days organisée par le Centre Suisse d’Intelligence Artificielle pour les PME (CSIA-PME) de la HES-SO. Cet événement a donné une vue des activités du CSIA et de la recherche appliquée en IA au service des entreprises, et avait comme objectif de tisser des liens de collaborations entre les chercheurs et les ingénieurs de la HES-SO et les entreprises évoluant dans le domaine de l’IA.
Feb 1
Journée Recherche et Innovation 2024
Le 1er février 2024 la Journée Recherche et Innovation (JRI) annuelle de la HEIG-VD consacrée à la thématique « Collaborer pour innover à l’ère du numérique » a mis en lumière des activités de recherche appliquée et développement qui se déroulent actuellement au sein de l’école en collaboration avec des entreprises et acteurs du tissu économique régional. A cette occasion, notre projet financé par Innosuisse « Système de conseil aux producteurs de fruits utilisant un dendromètre de fruits connecté, des données microclimatiques et des algorithmes d'apprentissage automatique » a fait l’objet d’une présentation par prof. Laura Elena Raileanu.
Yverdon-les-Bains
Lausanne
Genève
Yverdon-les-Bains
Lausanne
Genève
Our partners
Through research projects and teaching activities, our schools worked together with public institutions, industrial and academic partners and joined various networks in the field of health.
