Research Group Digital Health Introduces Patient Pathways to East Saxony - Funding Notification for Mission4Saxony

The Research Group Digital Health has received the funding notification for the BMBF-funded project "Mission4Saxony." Under the consortium leadership of the Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery (VTG), this model project aims to improve cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration in the medical care of surgical cancer treatments in the East Saxony region. Mission4Saxony aims primarily to align and coordinate the collaboration between healthcare facilities in rural areas with the capabilities of NCT/UCC Dresden and harmonize them through a pathway-based care regime. This model project also aims to ensure the long-term provision of surgical cancer care in East Saxony. Presently, East Saxony, with its 2 million inhabitants and only one major cancer centre in Dresden, faces a shortage of availability of surgical oncological expertise in complex cancer cases. Over the next few years, a significant increase in case numbers and frequency is expected due to the demographic situation, which will pose challenges to the availability of skilled professionals.

"We, as a research group, are particularly pleased that with this funding, we have the opportunity to implement and test the preparatory work from European projects on colorectal cancer in East Saxony and thus contribute to ensuring care," said Dr. Peggy Richter, a member of the Research Group Digital Health. The research group is responsible for the development and implementation of guideline-based, cross-sectoral patient pathways within the project consortium. This part of the project will be funded with approximately 630 TE over the next three years. The project starts on March 1, 2024. Other partners in the project include, besides VTG, the Center for Evidence-Based Healthcare (ZEGV), as well as the clinics in Bautzen, Radeberg, and Zittau.