The home as the arena of care: IoT solutions for equal health

Purpose and goal

The aim is to scale up, evaluate and create a basis for adapting IoT solutions and care models for remote monitoring, with the possibility of both outpatient and inpatient care at home. The objectives are to create regional and (inter)national IoT solutions for remote monitoring where scalable technical solutions work together based on common standards and to optimize the conditions for increased self-care and seamless care transitions for patients.

Expected effects and result

The goal of seamless transitions requires cooperation across care organizations/levels and enables a time- and cost-effective care process. The goal of increased self-care requires an understanding of what happens when public care moves into the patient´s home and enables better quality of care, more efficient care as well as a reduced burden on care. The goal of access to the right data at the right time requires a gathering of forces around standardization and interoperability and enables a better basis for decisions, reduced lock-in effects and less fragmentation.

Planned approach and implementation

The work is based on three perspectives: the patient, the care and the technology. Both the patient and care perspectives focus on data collection and analysis to identify various gaps and prerequisites with respect to the technology and access to relevant data. The technology perspective focuses on conditions for creating data availability based on standards and reduced lock-in effects. Basic AI models and prototypes are developed and tested within the framework of existing pilots in the Home Hospital Care project.