In the project “SAKuDA - A language assistance system for culturally and linguistically diverse elderly care”, an AI-based app is being further developed to provide support in inpatient care, taking into account the cultural and linguistic requirements of people with a migration biography.
Comprehensive care documentation is an important tool for quality assurance and serves to control and verify all care measures. Care activities must be documented systematically, correctly in terms of content and subject matter, promptly and continuously. At the heart of the project is a software solution whose speech-to-text function enables both day-to-day documentation and structured information collection (SIS) in the context of anamnesis and action planning via speech. The aim is to reduce the time spent on writing down and organizing care activities.
The SAKuDA project builds on technological results from the BMBF project “dexter: A language assistance system as an interaction system for care and patients” (FKZ: 16SV8791, funding period: 01.09.2021 - 31.12.2023). The current project serves to further develop the app in cooperation with the target groups. Due to the increasing number of migrant nursing staff - especially in the Ruhr area - the language-based app is to be expanded so that it also represents added value for people who are not native speakers. The Junior Professorship for Health and E-Health will lead the consortium in cooperation with the developers of dexter GmbH and the practice partner, Stella Vitalis GmbH, in various participatory formats through a co-creation process with the target groups in order to record the requirements for the software itself as well as the structural modalities for implementation and to formatively evaluate the app in ongoing practical tests.
Funded by
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
Duration
May 2024 - April 2026
The highly regulated healthcare industry poses special challenges for founders and digital health start-ups in order to successfully implement their ideas. The complex demands that the healthcare industry places on founders require industry-specific support structures along the entire start-up journey from the initial idea to the marketing of the product. In the project Digital Health Ecosystem NRW - Focus Start-ups 2025, a sustainable ecosystem with a focus on digital health start-ups has been established, which produces patient-oriented digital products and digitally supported innovative services. This works complementarily and in cooperation with the already existing diverse offers of start-up support and builds on four pillars:
The project is funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Duration
10.11.2022 - End 2025
The aim of the project is to improve the competences of people with mental illness to improve their self-management through the implementation of mobile health solutions. The project is funded under the Erasmus+ program and takes place in exchange with four partner organizations, in Spain, Slovenia, Lithuania, Greece and Romania.
Duration
31.12.2022 - End 2024
Working conditions in hospitals and inpatient care for the elderly are increasingly characterized by work intensification and high physical and psychological demands. There are many reasons for the high workload and work intensification in the nursing sector. These include inefficient communication channels and increasing documentation requirements. Innovative, simple and secure ways must be created to relieve the workload of nursing staff and to increase the overall quality of care. The dexter project is meeting this challenge and developing a system that uses digital voice assistants, also known as smart speakers, to help people - even those without a basic understanding of digital technology - to contact caregivers in emergencies intuitively and without barriers by voice. The goal is to enable people in need of care to communicate their needs and problems to caregivers via the smart speaker, allowing them to prioritize and act accordingly. In addition, dexter also supports caregivers directly by enabling them to complete documentation tasks by voice.
Duration
since September 2021
The project aims to contribute to the understanding and theory of digital transformation in healthcare by focusing specifically on digital mental health. In particular, the focus will be on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the care of individuals and their mental health. The aim of the project is:
The project is in collaboration with the University of Sussex (UK).
The aim of the project is to identify technologies for people with dementia, their relatives, but also for professional caregivers and to develop training materials so that these technologies can be used in a target-oriented way. The project is funded by the Erasmus+ program and takes place in exchange with nine partner organizations, among others in Greece, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey.
The core objective of Rheumyo is to offer patients affected by rheumatic diseases a digital service that supports them throughout the various stages of their treatment. To this end, the product is to be optimized based on the results of initial pilot projects, which are to be carried out in the clinical environment at the beginning of the funding phase, in order to enable positive care effects for those affected and also to develop the existing prototype of the initial version of Rheumyo into a marketable product version (MVP).
Duration
01.11.2021-31.12.2022
In Germany alone, up to 18 million people have a need for psychological support. While for various reasons only about one fifth of these people seek professional help in therapy, the majority remain without psychological support. Especially for people who feel psychologically burdened but do not yet have an indication for therapy according to psychotherapeutic standards, it is important to take countermeasures in time to counteract a manifestation of symptoms. ACTitude therefore offers digital services for the prevention of mental illness. These include online courses (with audio, visual and text material) as well as a podcast ("The Upward Spiral"). The courses are based on acceptance and commitment therapy.
Supported by
EXIST-Gründerstipendium (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy)
Duration
12 months from July 2021
Coop4Health.NRW will establish a citizen cooperative as part of the LifeSciences.NRW lead market competition to help improve the health and well-being of the NRW population. It will achieve this by integrating personal (health-related) data and information from the ecosystem for data-driven healthcare in NRW. What is special about the innovative governance approach of this cooperative is that citizens themselves have full control over their data and can jointly decide on its use for the benefit of all citizens. This makes data and information potentially usable across different "data silos" for all stakeholders inside and outside the healthcare sector even across regional and national borders. This approach is fully compatible with the EU GDPR and in line with the recommendations of the European Union in its Digital Health Strategy or Digital Single Market (DSM) strategies. Moreover, it is already legally regulated and anchored in all EU member states.Participating citizens will be offered individualized prevention, health promotion and healthcare measures that are specifically tailored to their needs and desired by them. Utilizing the knowledge of the citizen cooperative will improve local and regional healthcare delivery and planning in NRW and open up new opportunities for the digital health economy.
Cooperation partner
Faculty of Social Sciences of the Ruhr-University Bochum
Faculty of Medicine of the Ruhr University Bochum
Contec GmbH
Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST
University of Maastricht
Duration
May 2020 until April 2022
In the digital healthcare industry in North Rhine-Westphalia, there is an increasing number of start-ups that want to improve healthcare with innovative approaches. However, the healthcare system requires a specialized funding and support offering for founders that can help them deal with the specific challenges of the industry. Therefore, the aim of the project is to first describe and further connect the start-up landscape in the digital health industry. To achieve this, the following activities are targeted:
1) Establishment of an Internet presence and initial infrastructure Healthcare Living Lab Düsseldorf.
2) Internet portal of the eHealth start-up landscape in NRW
3) The organization of an event "Healthcare Startups Ecosystem NRW".
Funded by
Ministry for Economy, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy
Duration
Until end of 2020
The aim of the planned project is to systematically record the current challenges, needs and wishes of the healthcare startup ecosystem in NRW and, based on this, to formulate concrete recommendations for action (within the framework of a report/white paper) for several stakeholders (e.g. startups, politics, universities).
Building on the Healthcare Startup Ecosystem NRW 2020 project, two aspects in particular are therefore to be (further) developed:
Sponsored by
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Duration
Until April 2022
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