DELFIN - Diabetes, self-monitoring, legal and data space, foot ulcers, innovation, key roles

Important results from the project

The aim was to produce a plan of what is needed to implement, test and operate a system demonstrator in a safe, cost-effective and innovation-driven way, as well as to use health data in a value-creating way. The system studied within the project is the care process around people with diabetes at risk for foot ulcers, where we have investigated the conditions and possibilities for a data space with self-monitoring data and healthcare will be collected and shared in an effective way for analyzing of data related to primary or secondary use.

Expected long term effects

The result is a plan of what is needed to test and implement a system demonstrator related to the next system demonstrator application. Long term effects: Better control of health data and utilisation of information from patient data for the person-centered care and the care staff. Enabling secondary use creates a basis for innovation and new conditions for shorter development cycles and new products/services. Create platforms that are adaptable to the new technology and also comply with Swedish and EU regulations.

Approach and implementation

An actor mapping has been carried out and resulted in a description of the necessary actors for the realization of the system demonstrator. Our investigation shows that a system demonstrator needs a "HealthDataBank", which creates a framework for information flows that are collected through healthcare data, quality register data and self-collected data. Challenges for actors in the care process around diabetes and the risk of foot ulcers have been analysed based on the five system dimensions to be able to develop a full-scale system demonstrator that can include other diagnoses.