Evidence-Based Mobile Wound Application to Support Professionals in State-of-the-Art Chronic Wound Treatment.

BACKGROUND: One of the most important tasks within wound management and the basis of successful wound care is a clear and accurate nursing documentation which can be created in various ways. However, this documentation is only partially standardized mainly due to the interdisciplinarity of this task. OBJECTIVES: The goal is to overcome interdisciplinary boundaries in home care between health professionals, and to increase the patient's motivation to actively participate in wound healing by providing consistent structure and guidance. In this paper, the development of a mobile wound documentation application is described. METHODS: Comprehensive literature reviews were conducted on state-of-the-art wound documentation as well as on machine learning frameworks, databases and mobile app development technologies. RESULTS: As a result, a mobile wound application with Flutter, SQLite and Tensorflow Lite was developed. During the development process interoperability was considered to enable future extensibility. CONCLUSION: Further development in respect of backend and API is planned, involving user field tests.

Strategy for Deployment of Integrated Healthy Aging Regions Based Upon an Evidence-Based Regional Ecosystem-The Styria Model.

In 2013, the European Commission founded the platform European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging as a communication and innovation network in this domain. The goal of the current study was the development of an integrated regional ecosystem for active and healthy aging for the region of Styria via a step-by-step co-creation process. A mixed model approach was used to establish an ecosystem for active and healthy aging, which includes macro-, meso- and micro-level stakeholders in the province of Styria, Austria. Based on the results, eight recommendations for the deployment of a healthy aging region were developed. The visibility and accessibility of healthy aging products and services were evaluated as key factors for innovation in active and healthy aging in the region. Health professionals were identified as major drivers of innovation related to active and healthy aging in Styria. The study presented in this article assessed the capacities for healthy aging in the Styria region and identified the need to improve communication pathways between all levels of the public health system and market.

Feasibility and Design of an Electronic Surgical Safety Checklist in a Teaching Hospital: A User-Based Approach.

BACKGROUND: The Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) is routinely used in operating rooms (OR) but its acceptance is low. One promising way to improve acceptance of the SSC and thus quality of patient care is digitalization. OBJECTIVE: To investigate how a digitalization of the SSC could be implemented in a teaching hospital. Based on the identified user requirements we designed a first user interface (UI). METHOD: We performed a literature review, identified user perceptions and requirements during 12 interviews including a standardized questionnaire in surgical departments at the University Hospital Graz (Austria). Subsequently a first prototype of a UI was designed. RESULTS: Seven different approaches for digital SSC were identified in literature. Our interviews showed that 90% of the participants had a positive attitude towards a digitalization of SSC. The most favoured version of a digitalized SSC was a tablet-based client-server system with integration in the EHR and projection on an OR monitor. CONCLUSION: Digitalization of the SSC is requested by medical and nursing personnel. Based on the identified user requirements we designed a process oriented UI of a digital SSC.