{"id":871,"date":"2025-11-18T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/en\/?page_id=871"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:08:21","slug":"health-data-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/en\/health-data-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Data Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Approach<\/h2>\n<p>Switzerland, like many health systems worldwide, generates a wealth of structured clinical and administrative data. Yet, data alone doesn&#8217;t lead to better outcomes. Routinely recorded clinical date serve often only a single-use. Our Lab bridges the gap between routinely recorded clinical data and real-world impact. We empower healthcare institutions to translate complex health information into actionable insights that improve quality of care, support accountability, and foster continuous learning across the health sector.<\/p>\n<h2>Missions<\/h2>\n<p>Our vision is a health system where every data point contributes to better care\u2014and where care providers are equipped not just to measure, but to reflect and improve.<\/p>\n<p>We are dedicated to advancing data-informed improvement across healthcare settings. Our work focuses on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Making health data meaningful:<\/strong> transforming routine assessments and national quality indicators into understandable, usable information<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strengthening capacity-building:<\/strong> providing training, tools, and coaching to empower healthcare teams, management, leadership and frontline staff to transform their own data into fitting quality improvement initiatives<\/li>\n<li><strong>Support for implementation<\/strong> of data systems, quality checks and improvement initiatives<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fostering learning systems:<\/strong> cultivating a culture of reflection, feedback, and continuous quality improvement, where data is not just collected, but acted upon<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enabling community building:<\/strong> supporting organizations to benchmark and learn from one another across facilities, regions and care settings in peer learning cycles<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific foundation:<\/strong> Conducting participative action-research grounded in implementation science, to ensure our methods are evidence-based, context-sensitive, and scalable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Recherche<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/projets_de_recherche\/nip-q-upgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NIP-Q-UPGRADE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Building on practical experience with initiatives like the NIP-Q-UPGRADE program &#8211; where long-term care facilities successfully used MQI data to launch their own quality improvement (QI) projects &#8211; we have developed a scalable and adaptable model of data use.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/intercare.nursing.unibas.ch\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INTERCARE<\/a> is a nurse-led interprofessional care model specifically designed for long-term care facilities (LTCFs), aiming to reduce unplanned hospital transfers. Based on implementation science principles, INTERCARE has proven effective in improving continuity of care.<\/li>\n<li>The INTERSCALE project, funded by the Stiftung Pflegewissenschaft Schweiz Foundation and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), seeks to scale up the INTERCARE model and ensure its sustainable implementation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Teaching<\/h2>\n<p>A postgraduate training program is currently being developed.<\/p>\n<h2>Team<\/h2>\n<p>We work collaboratively with care institutions, researchers, and health authorities to tailor our support to local contexts, ensuring readiness and relevance. Whether it&#8217;s helping a facility launch its first QI project or supporting a health system-wide strategy for structured assessments, we are there to guide and empower.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/annuaire\/wellens-nathalie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nathalie Wellens,<\/a> full professor UAS, Head of Lab<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/annuaire\/lequin-pierre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pierre Lequin,<\/a> Lecturer UAS, Lab manager<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/annuaire\/brodard-alexandra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexandra Brodard,<\/a> scientific collaborator<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.hes-so.ch\/de\/profile\/11707655787-farah-islam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farah Islam,<\/a> scientific collaborator<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/annuaire\/rauber-gabriela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gabriela Rauber,<\/a> scientific collaborator<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/annuaire\/dos-santos-pego-myriam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Myriam dos Santos P\u00eago,<\/a> scientific collaborator<\/li>\n<li>No\u00e9mie Stienne, scientific collaborator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Partners<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/interrai.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consortium interRAI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curaviva.ch\/Informations-specialisees\/NIP-Q-UPGRADE\/POCfD\/?lang=fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CURAVIVA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.senesuisse.ch\/fr\/pour-vous\/projet-qualite-nip-q-upgrade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senesuisse<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artiset.ch\/Home\/Pdsob\/?lang=fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ARTISET<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cca.supsi.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SUPSI \u2013 Competence Centre on Ageing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nursing.unibas.ch\/de\/forschung\/forschungsprojekte\/laufende-projekte\/nip-q-upgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNIBAS &#8211; Institute Nursing Sciences<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instruments-aide-soins-domicile.ch\/evaluation-des-besoins\/instruments-dinterrai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPITEX ASD SUISSE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bag.admin.ch\/fr\/cfq-programmes-projets-et-etudes-en-cours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commisssion F\u00e9d\u00e9rale pour la Qualit\u00e9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Contact<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Nathalie Wellens<\/strong><br \/>\nFull professor UAS &#8211; Head of Health Data Lab<br \/>\n<a href=\"javascript:DeCryptX('0n0.3z0e2n2n2g0n3v2B2g2e0o0l1f3o3d0s1p3x1s3f0e200c0h')\">n [dot] wellens [at] ecolelasource [dot] ch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approach Switzerland, like many health systems worldwide, generates a wealth of structured clinical and administrative data. 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