Project duration: August 2002 - October 2005

Project leader: Sabine Koch

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Summary:

Ageing of population, growing mobility in society and growing shortage of staff resources in the health care sector require new models for information handling and communication in order to guarantee quality-oriented health care of the elderly. The project focuses on providing a seamless and consistent information flow between home health care and primary health care using mobile devices.

The project aims at providing elderly people with improved health care by development and evaluation of work-scenario oriented IT support for health care personnel in home and primary health care of the elderly, thereby addressing the issues of

(1) immediate and ubiquitous access to patient-oriented data in specific work situations for different care providers,

(2) decision support at the point of care and,

(3) intuitive access to information services for the elderly and their relatives.

In order to fulfil its goal, the project is based on an unique network of partners from community, county council and industry as well as on established contacts with other research projects in the field.

Project information:

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