© AbsolutVision on Unsplash Aims and scope The ‘Proactive service provision for disabled people’ project started out in 2018 and was implemented in 2020. The objective of the project was to automate the process of application for disability in an effort to reduce personnel resource costs (as application review is a very time-consuming process for…

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Aims and scope © Colourbox The CoNurse project was initiated in 2017 and the solution was implemented in 2018. The objective of the project was to reduce human-resulted errors in carrying out standard nursing procedures. Cognuse detected a need for it in Estonian health care through interactions with the North Estonia Medical Centre (henceforth NEMC),…

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© Kaitlyn Baker on Unsplash Aims and scope The centralized digital patient registration project is part of a wider eHealth initiative in Estonia that revolves around the efficiency of patient movement between different health care providers through the centralised digital patient registration, digital referrals and also e-consultation. These different initiatives are meant to operate in…

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Aims and scope © Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash The purpose of the collaboration “Patient Reported Outcome Measures in a mobile application” (henceforth “PROM”) was to improve patient-hospital communication through the development and test of a mobile application that makes it possible for patients to report their progress after surgery from home and for the clinical…

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Aims and scope © Colourbox The ‘Mobile health technology for women with osteoporosis’ project started in 2015 and was completed in 2018. The purpose of Mobile health technology for women with osteoporosis (hereafter dubbed the osteoporosis app) was to develop a mobile application that could help patients process their results from bone scans and promote…

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© Colourbox Aims and scope The Dysphagia E-learning project was initiated in 2013 with a pre-study phase. The purpose of Dysphagia E-learning was to develop new innovative solutions for health professionals and patients that can prevent deaths, pneumonia and malnutrition for patients and citizens with dysphagia. Dysphagia refers to a condition where a person has…

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Aims and scope © Colourbox The nursing home Booghuys, part of the city of Leuven, provides care for elderly people. In 2016, it was decided that the nursing home needed some renovations. The involved actors worked out some concepts for the renovations and did several working visits to other nursing homes. However, in June of…

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© mijnWGK website Aims and scope MijnWGK is an online data platform that allows an efficient access of health information of WGK[1] clients for general practitioners (GPs) and the clients themselves. WGK exists of five provincial non-profits which all have access to patient information. However, before MijnWGK, the GPs who treated the WGK patients had…

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Aims and scope © MijnGezondheid website MijnGezondheid is a partnership between more than twenty public and private actors, who implemented a portal website between 2017 and 2018, with which a citizen would be able to access his/her medical information more efficiently. The portal website is connected with different other databases to redirect the user (via…

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© Colourbox Aims and scope This case study is about the implementation of an evidence-based practice (EBP) architecture where guidelines and information can be shared and where applications can be connected for the network members to use. The Belgian EBP is oriented towards the development, validation, dissemination and evaluation of medical guidelines for health practitioners.…

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