Hybrid healthcare IT on the rise
The newly launched BMBF accompanying research project "CoCre-HIT" focuses on needs-oriented, digital applications in the healthcare sector.
The accompanying research project "CoCre-HIT", which is being funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research with almost EUR 1.5 million, aims to make digital applications in the healthcare sector more compatible with the needs of patients.
The acronym "CoCre-HIT" stands for "Co-Creation and Sustainable Participation in the Development of Hybrid Health IT". It addresses two particular challenges in the development of applications for e-health and telemedicine. On the one hand, "participation" or patient involvement in the development of digital products is currently a major trend. If you take a closer look, however, it often becomes clear that participation formats are very different and vary from a few interviews to actual opportunities to have a say. One of the aims of CoCre-HIT is to systematize and prepare corresponding approaches and methods. On the other hand, the focus is on so-called "hybrid" digital systems, which, due to the current pandemic conditions, appear to be a promising support for communication and coordination in the health sector, but also for the promotion of social participation and well-being for people with health restrictions, especially under the constraints of contact restrictions. In this sense, hybrid means that IT systems should be able to provide good support for both face-to-face and online interactions.
Over the next three years (2021-2024), CoCre-HIT will accompany the development of hybrid health IT in seven technology development projects funded by the BMBF and support and accompany the projects in the application of co-creative and participatory methods.
In CoCre-HIT, research and implementation partners from relevant fields collaborate at the intersection of participatory technology, health, and aging research:
- Department of Business Informatics / IT for an Aging Society, University of Siegen, (Acting) Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller (Director)
- Department of Media / Digital Health and Intelligent User Interfaces, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences (Prof. Dr. Alina Huldtgren)
- Institute for Health, Ageing, Technology, and Work, Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences (Prof. Dr. Andreas Hoff and Acting Prof. Dr. Cordula Endter)
- Bavarian Center for Digital Care, Kempten (Prof. Dr. Johannes Zacher, Dr. Florian Fischer, Dr. Tobias Wöhrle, Barbara Weber-Fiori)
- Institute for Gerontological Care and Nursing Research, Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences (Prof. Dr. Maik H.-J. Winter, Claudia Boscher)
- SIBIS Institute for Social Research, Berlin (Dr. Sibylle Meyer)
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, St. Augustin (Prof. Dr. Stefan Decker, Elisabeth Stein)
- Hühnergötter Agency, Bonn (Corinna Ruppel)
- North Rhine-Westphalia State Center for Health (Gaby Schütte and Stefan Feuerstein)
The project kicked off in mid-November with a joint meeting of all partners, hosted by Prof. Claudia Müller in Siegen. Due to the current pandemic situation, it was necessary to switch to a hybrid format on short notice. Unintentionally, the first project meeting thus served as a test case for a successfully implemented collaboration in a hybrid format, with both in-person and online participants.
“Health is a good. The COVID-19 pandemic is a clear illustration of this. The CoCre-HIT project focuses on how technologies can support people of all ages and in all life situations during such exceptional circumstances to promote health and quality of life. Our goal at the Institute for Health, Ageing, Technology, and Work at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences is to highlight the needs of older adults and their families in this context and to ensure that these needs are taken into account in the development of health IT.” Acting Prof. Dr. Cordula Endter
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