Connected Health
Studies show that some Danish patients experience the hospital as an opaque system characterised by slow processes. Patients may experience insufficient communication and a lack of a general overview and coherence related to the course of treatment.
PROJECT PERIOD
Start: February 2015
End: July 2016
AIM
The project of Connected Health therefore aimed at developing the communication and information app My Hospital for the benefit of the patients at OUH Odense University Hospital and Svendborg Hospital. My Hospital is a modulated solution that includes specific and patient-centred information with graphics and video. The patient is given a general overview of the current state as well as the future of the course of treatment.
RESULTS
The project includes both specific and general functions and modules. What they have in common is that the development is carried out in a collaboration with the clinic, the patients and the developers of the app. The project has contributed to the maturation of the app, which makes it usable in a wide context at the hospital, and many departments are able to implement it. My Hospital is now extended to all treatment courses at the hospitals in the Region of Southern Denmark, and the app continues being refined, and new functions and modules are being developed.
EXTERNAL FUNDING
The project received funding from Trygfonden.
Rikke Lyngholm Christensen
Programme Manager
Centre for Innovative Medical Technology (CIMT). Odense University Hospital, Dept. of Clinical Development - Innovation, Research & HTA
(+45) 2462 9727 rikke.lyngholm@rsyd.dk