Asst.-Prof. Nora Fritschi, PhD
Assistant Professor of Person-centered Medicine for Children and Adolescents
Alpenquai 4, Room 2 • nora.fritschi@unilu.ch
Projects
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E-Vaccination
Vaccinations are important at every stage of life to prevent infectious diseases and protect public health. For good medical care, doctors and patients need easy access to complete and reliable vaccination records. In Switzerland, however, vaccination information is often incomplete and scattered across paper cards or static PDF documents. Digital solutions have so far been limited, which can lead to missed or repeated vaccinations, delays for vulnerable groups, extra work for healthcare staff, and reduced opportunities for research and public health monitoring. Our project aims to solve this problem by turning existing paper vaccination cards into secure, digital records that are directly available to patients and healthcare professionals. Using artificial intelligence, we can read and structure vaccination information so it can be used in everyday care. In an initial pilot, our system already showed promising accuracy, and we are working to improve it further. In the future, we plan to add a digital assistant that can highlight missing vaccinations and support clinical decisions. This approach will make vaccination records more reliable, improve patient safety, and could be expanded to other healthcare institutions across Switzerland. 2024–2028 -
Pleuropneumonien am Kinderspital Zentralschweiz
2025–
Publications
- Ritz, N., & Fritschi, N. (2025). Sex distribution in tuberculosis disease in children, adolescents, and adults in a low-incidence country: a retrospective population-based cohort study. Swiss Medical Weekly, 155 (5), 4187 ff. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17882059
- Laura, H., Fritschi, N., Martani, A., Tatjana, W., Ritz, N., & Heininger, U. (2025). Borrelia burgdorferi infections in children and adolescents in Switzerland – a seroprevalence study 2023/2024 (BOBUINCA). Infection. https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-024-02387-7
- Paganini, A., Fritschi, N., Christopher, deFilippi, Ritz, N., Simmen, U., Scheinemann, K., … Diesch-Furlanetto, T. (2025). Comparative analysis of salivary cytokine profiles in newly diagnosed pediatric patients with cancer and healthy children. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/S41598-025-87608-1
- Ritz, N., Fritschi, N., & Büttcher, M. (2025). Klimawandel und die Verbreitung von Infektionskrankheiten. Paediatrica.
- Fritschi, N., Tatyana, G., Platon, E., Jackson, C., Edith, M., Siobhan, C., … Ritz, N. (2024). Diagnosis of tuberculosis infection in children with a novel skin test and the traditional tuberculin skin test: An observational study. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0293272
- Neudecker, D., Fritschi, N., Sutter-Somm, T., Llopart, L., Lutscher, P., Tebruegge, M., … Ritz, N. (2024). Evaluation of serological assays for the diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis disease: a study protocol. BMC Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1186/S12879-024-09359-0
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