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Patient & Staff Empowerment (PSE)

Pillar C - Patient and Staff Empowerment (PSE)

- increases efficiency, personalisation and high-quality med-tech solutions that will shape the hospital of the future. The sub-projects in this pillar provide technological solutions aimed at equipping hospital staff with tools that enable them to provide patients with more personalised care, use expensive medical systems more efficiently and actively participate in the development of their own software systems. As part of sub-project C.1, a virtual reality companion is being developed for counselling patients with chronic illnesses. In this way, hospitals can establish strategies that can be implemented, personalised motivational aids and a more efficient use of personnel resources. Sub-project C.2 tackles the challenge of optimising the use of expensive medical radiology systems. The aim is to offer an AI-based intelligent appointment scheduling system that ensures a high density of appointments, staff-independent appointment scheduling and the involvement of patients in the allocation and perception of appointments. Sub-project C.3 provides hospital staff with an AI-based software factory for the automatic creation of med-tech applications. Hospital staff will be able to easily specify which functions and support they need from software applications in order to independently obtain customised software applications that they can use in their daily operations.

The "Pillar C" projects

C.1: Improved self-management with virtual reality companions

The heart of RealCo is a Conversational Agent (CA) visualized by a humanoid avatar. The avatar combines verbal, paraverbal and non-verbal communication to provide counseling sessions for people with diseases such as chronic kidney disease or diabetes…

C.2: Reduction of idle times of MRI systems in radiology departments through the use of AI-based…

When patients do not turn up for their appointments, this causes problems for everyone involved. The patient misses a treatment, the hospital loses time and wastes resources, and for other patients treatment is unnecessarily delayed.

C.3: Artificial intelligence-based software factory for MedTech applications

Software development in and for hospitals is increasingly challenged by growing requirements and complexity, increasing networking, shorter cycles and multi-layered security requirements.