BCSSS becomes an active supporter for a digital humanism
Upon concluding a year of an intriguing workshops series concerned with new technological developments the BCSSS joins a movement supporting a new digital humanism. The center became an official supporter of the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism. The manifesto is a reaction to the challenges and threats that arise with…
Ethical and Juridical Aspects on Human Digitalization in Health (HDIHA)
Concluding a very successful year for the BCSSS Research Groups ‘Human Digitalization’ as well as ‘Systems Medicine and Health Care Systems’, BCSSS Vice President Felix Tretter organized the sixth symposium in the series of Big Data and Health events on November 20 to 21. Since fall 2018, the group had…
Systems Medicine: Comorbidity of diabetes and depression
On 22 to 23 October, BCSSS Vice President and Health Care Research Group leader Felix Tretter invited to a second round of his expert workshop on the issue of Systems Medicine. In the previous meeting in April 2019, the group discussed the basics of an “Organismal Systems Medicine” (OSM) as…
Groundbreaking new apprenticeship program promotes systems science principles in practice
Building on a 2017 initiative by Ray Ison, BCSSS board member, IFSR president and professor at the Open University UK, in convening a meeting of employers from which emerged an employer-led Trailblazer Committee, the UK the Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education has recently approved a new Master’s level apprenticeship…
Evaluation scales for Digital Health Technology Assessment (DHTA)
The basic goal of the series of BCSSS Vice President Felix Tretter’s workshops on (human) digitization is to make cyber-systemic perspectives of living systems explicit. Health and the health care system are important issues in this context. The aim of the previous workshops (WS I-III) was to examine the epistemic…
Evaluating Health-Related ICT (hICT)
The basic goal of the series of BCSSS Vice President Felix Tretter’s workshops on (human) digitization is to make cyber-systemic perspectives of living systems explicit. Health and the health care system are important issues in this context. The aim of the previous workshops (WS I-II) was to examine the epistemic…
We are back, rebooting the system in 2016 – emcsr becomes avantgarde
The European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research will be held in Vienna from March 30th to April 1st, 2016. It will be the first pop up conference meeting in the field of Systems Science, called emcsr avantgarde. The name reflects the vision and the core of the programme. We…
The systems view of health care. Felix Tretter at the 11th Conference of the Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies 10-11 July 2015, Athens
(photo show by courtesy of HSSS) The Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies (HSSS) has organized its 11th National & International Conference. The topic oft this year was “Systemics and Health Care”. The conference had a track for representation and discussion of national projects. Several issues were discussed such as Health Care…
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