Oliver Meindl

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology | FIT · Branch Business & Information Systems Engineering

Crowdsourcing holds great potential: macro-task crowdsourcing can, for example, contribute to work addressing climate change. Macro-task crowdsourcing aims to use the wisdom of a crowd to tackle non-trivial tasks such as wicked problems. However, macro-task crowdsourcing is labor-intensive and complex to facilitate, which limits its efficiency, eff...

Green information systems are often praised for their potential to foster sustainability in citizens’ daily lives and meet their needs. With this focus on citizens, districts that use smart technologies provide a litmus test, the results of which will indicate how to design smart green information systems that better meet the needs and desires of c...

Macro-task crowdsourcing presents a promising approach to address wicked problems like climate change by leveraging the collective efforts of a diverse crowd. Such macro-task crowdsourcing requires facilitation. However, in the facilitation process, traditionally aggregating and synthesizing text contributions from the crowd is labor-intensive, dem...

The success of palliative care requires collaboration among multiple professions within a sensibly digitized work system. The diverse perspectives and expertise of team members inform their collective endeavor, often leading to differing interpretations and priorities in patient care. This diversity necessitates a continual exchange of knowledge an...

Worldwide, cities grapple with the expectation of putting the brakes on climate change. Before acting, smart districts often serve as a testing bed for strategies towards carbon-neutrality. If effective, scale-up agendas at city-level are formulated. Smart districts are touted for their sustainability lever, as their core rationale is encouraging r...

Today, two-thirds of global energy demand and 70% of all carbon emissions originate from cities. These figures offer high potential for addressing climate change through targeted measures in urban areas. The construction or renovation of energy-efficient buildings, innovating mobility concepts, sustainable energy supply or concepts for incentivizin...

Organizational transformation is a topic of increased interest for academics and practitioners alike, especially in light of the various socio-technical developments associated with digitalization. Large-scale transformation initiatives often do not lead to the desired outcomes and fall short of their full potential primarily due to their inherent...

Emergency departments need to continuously calculate quality indicators in order to perform structural improvements, improvements in the daily routine, and ad-hoc improvements in everyday life. However, many different actors across multiple disciplines collaborate to provide emergency care. Hence, patient-related data is stored in several informati...

Due to improved insulation, decreasing indoor environmental quality (IEQ) is an emerging issue in the design of sustainable and energy-efficient buildings. Poor IEQ has severe long-term implications for the occupants’ health. Manual airing is a promising energy-efficient solution to combine good insulation and healthy IEQ. However, occupants’ behav...

As instrumental healthcare institutions providing high quality patient care, hospitals are currently facing multiple challenges ranging from pressure to reduce costs to a rapidly increasing elderly population. From a process perspective hospitals feature support and management processes, which enable the core process of providing patient care. One...

Einleitung: Ein zentrales Merkmal sektorenübergreifender Qualitätssicherung in der modernen Notfallmedizin ist die Rückmeldung (Feedback) über die Einschätzung der Verletzungs-schwere sowie zum Gesundheitszustand des Patienten [1] auf Basis von Routinedaten (Audit). Eine sektorenübergreifende Betrachtung von Qualitätsindikatoren und Kennzahlen über...

Für eine adäquate und qualitativ hochwertige Versorgung von Akutpatienten ist die Zusammenarbeit von Rettungsdienst, Rettungsleitstelle und Krankenhaus unerlässlich. Das Bindeglied zwischen Rettung und stationärer Entlassung in der Notfallversorgungskette stellt die Zentrale Notaufnahme dar. Prozesse in der Notfallmedizin haben aufgrund des enormen...

Flächendeckendes und sektorübergreifendes Qualitätscockpit in der digitalisierten Notfallmedizin soll systematische Qualitäts- und Prozessverbesserung ermöglichen.

Data and sensor fusion can enable clinical healthcare systems to improve conditions of a patient. However, hospitals are not the only application field of connected medical devices. Domestic monitoring gets more important day by day and applies Internet of Things with mobile sensors, like wearables. Through data processing data is transferred to sm...