Knowledge database
Welcome to our SHIFT Smart Hospital knowledge database! This serves as a central source of knowledge and inspiration for all healthcare professionals and service providers - i.e. in particular for hospitals interested in the digital transformation towards the smart and liquid hospital.
The sub-projects (A.1 to D.4) provide insights into their results and findings via knowledge contributions and thus ensure that the knowledge generated as part of SHIFT is integrated and disseminated sustainably. These knowledge contributions deal with relevant questions and problems that hospitals are generally confronted with and provide answers that need to be considered in the context of digital transformation.
It is a dynamic database that will grow in knowledge over the coming years. So stay up to date and browse what our sub-projects have to report.
Pillar A: Tech-Foundation & Knowledge Integration
Pillar A deals with two important enablers for the project. On the one hand, in A.1 with the provision of a technical and secure data and integration middleware to connect the application (sub)projects with the hospital IT in a standardised and seamless manner. On the other hand, with A.2, this pillar offers an organisational and knowledge-based opportunity to centrally network the results and findings and make them accessible.
Pillar B: Seamless Patient Path (SPP)
Pillar B explores new possibilities for individualised treatment that allows for the shortest and most comfortable hospital stay possible while keeping the risk of complications and therefore treatment costs low. The technological focus here is on mobile sensors, also known as wearables. Wearables can supplement today's conventional selective recording of vital parameters by trained personnel and enable new treatment processes, which we are investigating in three sub-projects.
Pillar C: Patient & Staff Empowerment (PSE)
Pillar C 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.
Pillar D: Management of Hospital Systems (MHS)
Pillar D deals with aspects of the ideal organisational design of a hospital in a digital world. Hospitals are highly complex networked systems that need to be intelligently controlled and managed. Accordingly, new forms of management and technological solutions are sought that reduce the growing complexity and fulfil the multi-layered needs of patients and employees.