IT-support for advanced home-care for cancer patients
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Lunds universitet - Institutionen för datavetenskap |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 10 000 000 |
| Project duration | November 2011 - January 2014 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Challenge-driven innovation - Phase 2 Collaboration |
Purpose and goal
This project the challenge to meet the increasing demand for healthcare has been addressed by focusing on support for advanced home care. This situation demands a different kind of it-support, mobile, integrated, on-line, supporting the whole process, in order for the care to work efficient, and the patients to feel safe in the home care situation. We have worked explicitly with palliative care, but the architecture and functions we have produced as parts of a support, can be adjusted for use also in care of patients with other diagnosis.
Results and expected effects
The project has, as expected, resulted in a prototype for an integrated it-support system for palliative care in the home which is evaluated on a daily basis by doctors and nurses. As a long term effect of the project we see a widely available it-support system for home care, also for treating patients with other diagnosis.
Approach and implementation
The support system and its functions have been developed in close cooperation with professional nurses and who actively have been using it in their work with patients. This setup has been extremely useful when understanding what the demands are is at least as challenging as finding solutions. We see a wider potential for this agile method we have formed for identifying the demands and evaluating the proposed solutions incrementally. This as an alternative to the requirements based methods that are often used otherwise.