INGVER Connect
INGVER Connect
Coordination and networking for healthcare (in the border region)
INGVER Connect is a sub-project of the Intersectoral Care of Vulnerable Groups - INGVER project at University Medicine Oldenburg (UMO), in which new concepts are being developed to improve care for particularly vulnerable people - including high-risk babies, cancer patients and the elderly. The aim is to provide personalised and seamless care through close cooperation between the hospital, outpatient care and home care.
The CONNECT sub-project is at the centre of the strategic further development of cross-sectoral healthcare in the northern German-Dutch border region. The aim is to improve the long-term care of vulnerable groups through innovative, personalised concepts and care pathways in the border region. To this end, existing care structures are being analysed, care pathways identified and innovative concepts for intersectoral data integration developed and tested.
Project leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Hein
Project duration: 2024 - 2027
Project funding: Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)
Funding code: 01KX2419
In a first step, existing specific structures in multidisciplinary, regional and local care between hospital and home (medical, nursing and therapeutic care, support services) in the border region will be mapped with regard to the needs of the three target groups of the INGVER project (geriatric, oncological and high-risk patients). In a second step, care pathways are determined by means of stakeholder surveys in order to identify challenges, gaps and barriers to healthcare in the border region.
In a third step, prototypical care pathways are examined with regard to their intersectoral data flow, i.e. the use and accessibility of patient data between outpatient, inpatient and home care areas, in order to optimise this data flow and thus the intersectoral networking of care, in which the Department of Health Economics is significantly involved.
The findings will be incorporated into the further development of cross-border care models, utilising already established structures of the Cross Border Institute of Healthcare Systems and Prevention (CBI) to shed light on care in the border region on the Dutch side as well, to further develop existing concepts on both sides of the border and to jointly identify new approaches.
Further information on the INGVER project can be found here.