Eveline Wouters is a professor of Health Innovations & Technology (HIT) at Fontys Paramedical. She is trained as a physician and epidemiologist. Alongside her role at Fontys, she is an extraordinary professor of ‘Successful Technological Innovations in Healthcare’ at Tranzo, TSB, Tilburg University, and part of the academic workplace Technological and Social Innovations for Mental Health. Additionally, she serves on the supervisory boards of healthcare organizations ASVZ, Prins Heerlijk, Sevagram, and Oktober, is a member of the Provincial Health Council (Brabant Advies), and is an editorial board member of ICT and Health.
Expertise
Acceptance and implementation of technological and social innovations in healthcare, development of new technological applications in healthcare from the perspective of and in co-creation with users: patients, relatives, informal caregivers, and healthcare professionals. Ethical aspects of technology use in healthcare. Accessibility of technology in healthcare and digital inequality.
Research projects
Ongoing projects: KWILT, STIFF (PhD research by Lydia Willemse), From Sensors to Care, PhD project ‘Switch2move’ (Frank Antonissen), eHealth Junior (PhD candidates Inge Braspenning and Aafke Coopmans), PhD project (starting soon) Post-Covid (Leoni van Dijk), PhD project on wearables and INOCA (in collaboration with Radboud, Peter-David Faasse), PhD project on Proactive Care (Carolien Burghout, Tranzo), PhD project on monitoring domotics in nursing homes (Danielle van Gaans, Tranzo), PhD project on dementia and sleep (Alicia Jonkers, Tranzo).
