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Mobile Apps and Wearable Devices for Cardiovascular Health: Narrative Review

Mobile Apps and Wearable Devices for Cardiovascular Health: Narrative Review

While simply providing an app or wearable in German did not automatically qualify it as DACH-specific, those developed by creators from Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, with a focus on their respective health care systems, were deemed as such. Secondly, the app or wearable was considered DACH-specific if the company behind it was based in one of the DACH countries.

Gauri Kumari Chauhan, Patrick Vavken, Christine Jacob

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2025;13:e65782

Exploring Climate Change’s Impact on the Cardiopulmonary Health of Adults Living in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland: Protocol for a Development and Usability Pilot Study

Exploring Climate Change’s Impact on the Cardiopulmonary Health of Adults Living in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland: Protocol for a Development and Usability Pilot Study

In recent years, several studies have been conducted on the various components of the relationship between health and climate change in Switzerland, particularly via the Swiss Study on Air Pollution and Lung and Health Diseases in Adults cohort [6]. A review of 22 studies by Cicci et al [7] highlighted positive associations between high temperatures and ischemic heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, the risk of congestive heart failure, and the number of emergency department (ED) consultations.

Omar Portela Dos Santos, Paulo Jorge Pereira Alves, Henk Verloo

JMIR Res Protoc 2025;14:e67128

Smartphone-Based Intervention Targeting Norms and Risk Perception Among University Students with Unhealthy Alcohol Use: Secondary Mediation Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Smartphone-Based Intervention Targeting Norms and Risk Perception Among University Students with Unhealthy Alcohol Use: Secondary Mediation Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

All participants were recruited in April 2021 at 4 higher education institutions in the Lausanne area in Switzerland (the University of Lausanne, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, the Hospitality Business School Lausanne, and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland’s School of Health) and provided their written informed consent to participate. The study’s procedures have been detailed elsewhere [11,32,45].

Joseph Studer, John A Cunningham, Elodie Schmutz, Jacques Gaume, Angéline Adam, Jean-Bernard Daeppen, Nicolas Bertholet

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e55541

Citizen Worry and Adherence in Response to Government Restrictions in Switzerland During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Repeated Cross-Sectional Online Surveys

Citizen Worry and Adherence in Response to Government Restrictions in Switzerland During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Repeated Cross-Sectional Online Surveys

Young adults in the city of Zurich, Switzerland, reported elevated stress levels in April 2020, in the aftermath of the first wave [15], as was found more generally in Swiss adults too [16]. In terms of risk factors, anxiety was higher in women, younger people, and vulnerable persons [17-19].

Vanessa Kraege, Céline Dumans-Louis, Céline Maglieri, Séverine Bochatay, Marie-Anne Durand, Antoine Garnier, Kevin Selby, Christian von Plessen

Interact J Med Res 2025;14:e55636

Evaluating the Economic Impact of the PedAMINES App in Reducing Medication Errors in Pediatric Emergency Care: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Evaluating the Economic Impact of the PedAMINES App in Reducing Medication Errors in Pediatric Emergency Care: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Subsequently, the findings from prehospital settings were extrapolated to the PICU environment of a tertiary hospital in Switzerland. In the economic evaluation, the costs (ie, maintenance, update, and training costs) as well as the health benefits (ie, avoided administration errors with associated consequences) and nonhealth benefits (avoided costs, time saved) of using the app in pediatric care at the Geneva University Hospitals were considered.

Loïc Brunner, Johan N Siebert, Frédéric Ehrler, Sergio Manzano, Joachim Marti

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e52077

The Paradoxes of Digital Tools in Hospitals: Qualitative Interview Study

The Paradoxes of Digital Tools in Hospitals: Qualitative Interview Study

Switzerland offers a valuable research environment for a comprehensive exploration of HCPs’ perspectives due to its diverse health care landscape [35]. Understanding and amplifying HCPs’ experiences is vital to generate new insights into the mechanisms and tensions underscoring the ongoing challenges; explore current dilemmas and opportunities; and suggest alternative strategies for the future development, adoption, implementation, and evaluation of these tools.

Marie Wosny, Livia Maria Strasser, Janna Hastings

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e56095

Updated Surveillance Metrics and History of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-2023) in Europe: Longitudinal Trend Analysis

Updated Surveillance Metrics and History of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-2023) in Europe: Longitudinal Trend Analysis

Bank’s definition of Europe, which is based on economic development and geographical proximity, encompassing Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Alexander L Lundberg, Scott A Wu, Alan G Soetikno, Claudia Hawkins, Robert L Murphy, Robert J Havey, Egon A Ozer, Charles B Moss, Sarah B Welch, Maryann Mason, Yingxuan Liu, Lori A Post

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2024;10:e53551

What Is the Performance of ChatGPT in Determining the Gender of Individuals Based on Their First and Last Names?

What Is the Performance of ChatGPT in Determining the Gender of Individuals Based on Their First and Last Names?

We used a database of 6131 physicians practicing in Switzerland, a multilingual and multicultural country with 36% of physicians of foreign origin [4]. The sample consisted of 3085 women (50.3%) and 3046 men (49.7%), with gender determined by self-identification. We used nationalize.io to determine the origin of physicians’ names (Table 1). A total of 88% of names were from French-, English-, Spanish-, Italian-, German-, or Portuguese-speaking countries or from another European country.

Paul Sebo

JMIR AI 2024;3:e53656

Colorectal Cancer Screening Decision Based on Predicted Risk: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Colorectal Cancer Screening Decision Based on Predicted Risk: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

In Switzerland, every year, 4500 people are diagnosed with CRC, of whom 1760 die from CRC [2]. However, CRC can be effectively prevented by screening that allows detection and removal of early-stage cancers and precancerous lesions [3-5]. The 2 most frequently offered screening options are colonoscopy and the fecal immunochemical test (FIT). Colonoscopy is more sensitive, especially for polyps [6,7], but it carries risks of bleeding and perforation [8,9].

Ekaterina Plys, Jean-Luc Bulliard, Aziz Chaouch, Marie-Anne Durand, Luuk A van Duuren, Karen Brändle, Reto Auer, Florian Froehlich, Iris Lansdorp-Vogelaar, Douglas A Corley, Kevin Selby

JMIR Res Protoc 2023;12:e46865

Performance of the Swiss Digital Contact-Tracing App Over Various SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Waves: Repeated Cross-sectional Analyses

Performance of the Swiss Digital Contact-Tracing App Over Various SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Waves: Repeated Cross-sectional Analyses

Prominent examples of digital proximity-tracing apps in Europe include the United Kingdom’s National Health Service’s (NHS) COVID-19 app, the German Corona-Warn-App, and the Swiss Covid app from Switzerland [1-3]. In Switzerland, smartphone ownership exceeding 90% [4] across all socioeconomic groups presented an opportunity for the Swiss Covid app to be widely adopted and complement manual contact-tracing efforts.

Paola Daniore, Vasileios Nittas, Tala Ballouz, Dominik Menges, André Moser, Marc Höglinger, Petra Villiger, Krisztina Schmitz-Grosz, Viktor Von Wyl

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2022;8(11):e41004