Maternal healthcare online
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| Coordinator | RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB - RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, Kista |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 496 000 |
| Project duration | November 2019 - August 2020 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Challenge-Driven Innovation – Stage 1 initiation |
| Call | Challenge-driven innovation - step 1 initiation 2019 (autumn) |
Important results from the project
The aim of the project “Maternal healthcare online” is to make maternal healthcare more effective and accessible by developing a user friendly and secure comprehensive solution for both caregivers and pregnant women. The results in step 1 are to identify a solution, plan how new solutions can be used, undertake a need-analysis among users and map globally available solutions, develop an MVP for the Swedish market, draft an agreement between project partners and identify potential future project partners.
Expected long term effects
We found that midwives need a place for information and communication, that pregnant women want to communicate digitally and that both groups are positive to at-home monitoring of selected symptoms. There are digital solutions globally but none are all-inclusive. Use is limited. There are no services for at-home monitoring during pregnancy in the Swedish market. Our solution is a comprehensive web-based platform for caregivers and an app for pregnant women. We have developed an MVP and made a plan for future development and implementation of the solution.
Approach and implementation
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic many of the intended activities had to be converted to digital form. Despite this, the project parties have managed to carry out a needs’ analysis consisting of qualitative in-depth interviews with pregnant women and midwives. Demonstrations and testing of the MVP was carried out with digital instead of physical support. Digital solutions were also used to contact potential future partners. Working with digital solutions in health care it has been exciting to see how quickly we were able to adapt to new ways of working and are satisfied with the results.