INGVER Connect
INGVER Connect
Coordination and networking for healthcare provision (in the border region)
INGVER Connect is a sub-project of the ‘Intersectoral Care for Vulnerable Groups – INGVER’ project at Oldenburg University Hospital (UMO), which is developing new approaches to improve care for people at particular risk of health complications – including those born at risk, cancer patients and older people. The aim is to provide personalised and seamless care through close cooperation between hospitals, outpatient services and home care.
The CONNECT sub-project is at the heart of the strategic development of cross-sectoral healthcare in the northern German-Dutch border region. The aim is to improve the long-term care of vulnerable groups in the border region through innovative, personalised approaches and care pathways. To this end, existing care structures are being analysed, care pathways identified, and innovative approaches to cross-sectoral data integration developed and tested.
Project leader: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Hein Project
duration: 2024–2027
Funding body: Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) Grant
reference: 01KX2419
As a first step, existing specific structures within the multidisciplinary, regional and local care system linking hospitals and the 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 will be determined through stakeholder surveys in order to identify challenges, gaps and barriers to healthcare provision in the border region.
In a third step, prototype care pathways will be examined in terms of their cross-sectoral data flow, that is, the use and accessibility of patient data between outpatient, inpatient and home care settings, with the aim of optimising this data flow and, consequently, the cross-sectoral integration of care – a process in which the Department of Health Economics plays a key role.
The findings will be incorporated into the further development of cross-border healthcare models, In doing so, the Cross-Border Institute of Healthcare Systems and Prevention (CBI)’s established structures are being utilised to examine healthcare provision 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.