Participation in international AI conference in Basel
PatientEd will be present with a poster presentation at the international conference aiHealth2025, which will take place on 10 and 11 November 2025 at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) in Muttenz. The event is one of the central European formats for the application of AI in medicine and addresses an expert audience from research, clinics and industry.
Poster on Interactive Avatar in Ophthalmology
The submitted poster presents the development of a web-based application with a virtual physician avatar that enables conversational education on ophthalmological procedures such as intravitreal injections and cataract surgery. The evaluation of different LLM strategies shows advantages of ICL few-shot approaches in terms of correctness and empathetic communication. At the same time, challenges such as latency and dialect recognition were identified and addressed via glossaries and optimized prompting. The underlying test pipeline allows a scalable evaluation of AI-supported medical dialogue systems.
Classification in current AI developments in medicine
aiHealth2025 is dedicated to key topics such as AI-supported diagnostics, therapeutic applications and generative AI for digital twins in healthcare. PatientEd's paper builds on these developments by investigating the transferability of large language models to preoperative conversations. The methods presented offer starting points for research questions on clinical quality, safety and the integration of AI-based tools into care pathways.
Role of PatientEd and scientific cooperation
The poster presentation will be presented by Noah Leuenberger as part of the collaboration between PatientEd and the FHNW. Dr. med. Amr Saad is responsible for ophthalmological orientation and content quality control. The Innocheque results form the basis for evaluating the use of generative AI in preoperative dialogues and support PatientEd's goal of further developing digital patient information in a structured and comprehensible way.
Outlook for further research
Following the conference, PatientEd plans to incorporate the findings from the poster session into future development cycles. An expansion to additional use cases and the integration of the results into ongoing projects on clinical pilot studies and digitally supported educational processes are being examined.
