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Prof. Dr. Oliver Koch

Institut Informatik

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Email:
oliver.koch@hs-ruhrwest.de

Telephone:
+49 208 88254-809

Office hours:
By appointment
Occupation:
Vice-President for Research and Transfer | Professor of Computer Science – Smart Living (Ambient Assisted Living, eHealth)

“Expert in IT in Healthcare”

 

Prof. Dr Oliver Koch studied Economics with a focus on Business Information Systems from 1991 to 1997 at Philipps-Universität Marburg. He completed his doctorate in 2009 in the field of Business Information Systems with a dissertation entitled “Information Logistics Design for Context-Oriented Information Supply in Medical Treatment Processes”.

After completing his studies, Prof. Koch initially worked as an IT consultant at the international consulting firm Steria Mummert. He subsequently held positions in Strategic Corporate Development at TÜV Mitte AG and at the internet start-up infoball.

In 2003, Prof. Koch joined the Fraunhofer-Institut für Software- und Systemtechnik ISST. There, he established and led a department with a staff of nine and an annual third-party funding volume of over €1 million. The department’s research activities focused on information logistics, web-based telemedicine applications and mobile eHealth solutions (digital companions). Prof. Koch headed the Smart Health Lab at Fraunhofer ISST and served as Head of the Health & Care Business Unit at the inHaus Centre of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Duisburg. In addition, he was a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management (FOM) in Essen.

In January 2012, Prof. Koch was appointed Professor at Hochschule Ruhr West in Bottrop. His teaching and research areas include eHealth, Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), Smart Living and Business Information Systems.

Teaching

  • Fundamentals of Computer Science and Databases

Research and Cooperation

eHealth
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
Smart Living
Business Information Systems

Selected Publications

  • Using Complex Event Processing and Context for Intelligent Information Filtering and Supply; Meister, Sven; Koch, Oliver; 1st IFAC Conference on Embedded Systems, Computational Intelligence and Telematics in Control (CESCIT 2012); accepted paper.
  • IuK Infrastructures for Telerehabilitation; Deiters, Wolfgang; Koch, Oliver; Königsmann, Thomas; Meister, Sven; in: Sixsmith, Andrew (ed.): Handbook on AAL for Healthcare, Well-being and Rehabilitation; IOS Press: Amsterdam, 2011.
  • Kontextorientierte Informationsversorgung in medizinischen Behandlungsprozessen: Informationslogistische Konzeption eines Lösungsansatzes für Ärzte (monograph); Koch, Oliver; Vieweg + Teubner: Wiesbaden, 2010.
  • Syntaktische Interoperabilität (Lesson 4); Koch, Oliver; in: Johner, Christian (ed.): IT im Gesundheitswesen, written management course in 10 lessons, 2nd edition; Euroforum: Düsseldorf, 2008.
  • RFID im Gesundheitswesen – Nutzenpotenziale und Stolpersteine auf dem Weg zu einer erfolgreichen Anwendung; Koch, Oliver; Deiters, Wolfgang; in: Bullinger, Hans-Jörg; Ten Hompel, Michael (eds.): Internet der Dinge; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007, pp. 191–202.
  • Process-based and context-sensitive information supply in medical care; Koch, Oliver; in: Doan, Bich-Lien; Jose, Joemon; Melucci, Massimo (eds.): Context-Based Information Retrieval, Proceedings of the CIR'07 Workshop in conjunction with CONTEXT-07; Computer Science Research Report No. 114; Roskilde, 2007, pp. 93–104.
  • Einsatzbereiche und Potenziale der RFID-Technologie im deutschen Gesundheitswesen: Praxisbeispiele – Nutzen – Erfahrungen; Gaßner, Katrin; Koch, Oliver; Weigelin, Lena; Deiters, Wolfgang; Fraunhofer IRB Verlag: Stuttgart, 2006.
  • Prozesssteuerung in der integrierten Versorgung; Koch, Oliver; Herzog, Christian; in: Hellmann, Wolfgang (ed.): Handbuch Integrierte Versorgung: Strategien – Konzepte – Praxis, loose-leaf edition; ecomed Verlagsgesellschaft: Landsberg, 2004.
  • Supporting communication relationships and processes of patients by using computer-mediated communication technologies; Koch, Oliver; Tromsø Telemedicine and eHealth Conference 2004; Tromsø, Norway, 21–23 June 2004.