Innovative digital solutions

Digitalization is changing all areas of social life. It has an impact on healthcare and therefore on GP care and the communication channels between doctor and patient.

The use of mobile applications offers patients the possibility of self-determination in the course of treatment and the strengthening of health literacy. Digital technologies can help GPs to treat multimorbid patients and maintain care in rural areas.

Our current topics in this area are

• DiGAPS - Can digital health applications (DiGA) contribute to thecare of mentally ill patients? The project "DiGAPS - Digital Health Applications for Mental Illness" examines attitudes towards and experiences with DiGA, which can be prescribed for mental illness, from the perspective of patients and service providers (GPs, psychotherapists and psychiatrists).

Completed projects are:

• Dare -

  We encounter recommender systems in our daily lives, especially when we go shopping.

  They are primarily used to analyse our purchasing behaviour and provide personalized purchase recommendations based on the underlying data.

  So far, they have hardly been used in the School of Medicine, although the possibility of a self-learning recommendation system would also exist here.

  Until now, treatment decisions have been made by GPs based on the patient's medical history, the doctor-patient consultation and the GP's clinical experience.

  The main aim of the study is to develop a self-learning medication recommendation system that offers doctors personalized therapy recommendations based on data.

  This is particularly important for patients who show different efficacies and sometimes different side effects with the same therapy, i.e. the same active ingredient and the same dosage.

• GP health center Telemedicine -

  Measuring blood pressure and pulse while looking in a mirror. Vision of the future or soon to be reality?

  This was investigated in the "Domestic health station" project by testing and trialling the feasibility and applicability of contactless camera-based measurement technology for vital parameters in the home environment.

• ATMOSPHERE -

  Demographic change, with its increasing number of older chronically ill and multimorbid patients, represents one of the greatest challenges. In terms of holistic care, these patients need more than just medically focused care for their individual underlying illnesses.

  In the ATMoSPHÄRE joint project "Autonomy despite multimorbidity in Saxony through patient empowerment, holistic care for older people with networking of all regional facilities and service providers", a conceptual approach was developed based on a medical technology solution that takes into account all the key areas of patients' lives and aims to network the various stakeholders involved in their care.