Dr. Katharina Dassel

"Data-driven innovations for health and care only show real impact if they are conceived systematically, designed responsibly, and supported across organizations."
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Focus of work

  • Impact of new technologies and AI on work design and processes in health and care
  • Digital and data-driven business models in health and care
  • Data rooms, digital infrastructures, and interoperability in the health sector
  • Governance, ethics, and digital responsibility in innovation processes
  • Innovation assessment, strategic foresight, and technology trends

Curriculum vitae

Dr. Katharina Dassel is a scientific consultant at the iit with a focus on data-driven innovations in health and care. She earned her doctorate on the topic of platforms, digital privacy, and decision-making architectures and has an interdisciplinary background in business administration, business informatics, and digital health. Her expertise includes health technology assessments, business model development, strategy development, as well as governance and data protection issues. In research and funding projects such as the “Future of Care” cluster, studies by the Bertelsmann Foundation, and the development of ethical AI guidelines for the BMAS, she works at the interface between research, practice, and innovation policy. She is committed to responsible innovation management in complex, interorganizational structures and supports data-based innovations in health and care with the aim of anchoring them not only technologically, but also socially, ethically, and institutionally in a sustainable manner.

Publications

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Dassel, Katharina; Colloseus, Cecilia; Sell, Andrea; Günther, Christoph; Aschenbrenner, Doris; Klein, Jacqueline; Guagnin, Daniel (2025): KI in der Pflege – Mensch im Mittelpunkt: Partizipative Entwicklung eines digitalen Assistenzsystems zur Entlastung in der stationären Altenpflege
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Dassel, Katharina; Lutze, Maxie (2025): Digital Care-pathways and Inter organizational Systems: A Perspective on Digital Sovereignty along Shared Responsibilities, In: Schmutzsch, U., Shajek, A., Hartmann, A. (eds). Digital Sovereignty in Industry. Springer Nature, Heidelberg/ Berlin.
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Lutze, Maxie; Dassel, Katharina; Busch, Anne (2025): KI in Gesundheitsfachberufen – Potenziale und Herausforderungen, Bertelsmann Stiftung.
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Dassel, Katharina; Busch, Anne; Lutze, Maxie (2024): Arbeitsentlastung durch Pflegesoftware. Auf welche Qualitätskriterien kommt es an?
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Dassel, Katharina; Klein, Stefan (2023): To Zoom or not: Diverging responses to privacy and security risks. In: Journal of Business Research, Volume 161, June 2023, 113772.
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Dassel, Katharina (2022): Information Privacy Decision-Making: Explaining and Enabling Individual Privacy Management Through Social and Contextual Norms. Dissertation at the University of Münster.
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Dassel, Katharina; Klein, Stefan (2020): (My) Data for (my) Health — Privacy Calculi of Terminally ill Patients with Rare Disease. In Proceedings of the 33rd Bled eConference, Bled, Slovenia.
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Hupperich, Thomas; Dassel, Katharina (2020): On the Usefulness of User Nudging and Strength Indication concerning Unlock Pattern Security. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications, Guangzhou.
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