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Linked Care - Information Transfer in Mobile Care and Support

Authors:
Kathrin Muehlhauser
Elisabeth Haslinger-Baumann
Theresa Galanos
Doris Zeidler
Franz Werner

Keywords: IT documentation systems, communication systems, health care and nursing, interdisciplinary research

Abstract:
Information and communication technology (ICT) support can bring significant improvements for home care and the involved care giving parties such as clients/patients, relatives, and nursing staff. To increase its potential and operating range, Linked Care (LICA) develops IT systems that address and support practice-oriented challenges, increase digital data availability and reduce the work-related burdens of professional caregivers and therapists as well as clients/patients and their involved support system. Innovative functions have the potential to enhance the well-being and health of the affected clients and working staff. Experiences with existing IT systems plus the existing Austrian electronic health record system (ELGA) serve as a starting point to enable a continuous information supply in mobile care and support within the project. The LICA system will provide interdisciplinary support and the connection of relevant participants in the care process such as mobile care, therapists, general practitioners, pharmacies, and relatives as well as the clients themselves, offering a new type of responsive user interface. LICA also investigates the end-users’ needs and specifies the processes in workshops with local representatives and regional political and administrative stakeholders. In this way, LICA allows for the exchange and evaluation of care data (nursing, care, therapy, …) via standardized interfaces (IHE, HL7, FHIR based) throughout Austria. The heterogeneous needs of different settings and population groups as well as the socio-economic regional and national environments are considered.

Pages: 59 to 61

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: July 18, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-872-3

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 18, 2021 to July 22, 2021