SBME Seminar: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: The Power of Digital Biomarkers in Personalized Health – Dr. Filipe Barata

SBME Seminar: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: The Power of Digital Biomarkers in Personalized Health – Dr. Filipe Barata

 
 
Location:
Virtual only.
 
 
Co-hosted by Centre for Aging SMART
 

Digital biomarkers, derived from ubiquitous personal technology like smartphones and wearables, are transforming personalized healthcare. They provide continuous, multimodal health insights in real-time, bridging traditional clinical gaps with data-rich, individualized information. In this presentation, I introduce the Bitemporal Lens Model, a novel conceptual framework outlining the effective application of digital biomarkers in preventive healthcare. Furthermore, I present our recent research advances on digital biomarkers across diverse health domains, including heart failure, rheumatology, asthma, and ageing, along with our latest contributions to open-source software and open-weight resources, particularly our software sensor framework and middleware platform, CLAID.

 

 
 
Dr. Filipe Barata’s Biography:

Dr. Filipe Barata leads the AI & Digital Biomarker Research Core (ADAMMA) at the Centre for Digital Health Interventions, ETH Zurich. He earned both his MSc in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and his Doctor of Science in Health Informatics from ETH Zurich. Dr. Barata has contributed to research in industry and academia—including at Siemens’ LMS International R&D lab, Bruker Biospin, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, and Stanford University School of Medicine. He investigates the potential that mobile technologies such as wearable sensors, mobile applications, social media, and location-tracking technologies can offer for the monitoring and self-management of people with chronic diseases, with a recent focus on applications in healthy aging.