LICA

ICT support can bring about significant improvements for people who are cared for and supported at home, their relatives and the nursing staff. To tap this potential, Linked Care (LICA) develops IT systems that relieve the burden on caregivers, patients, relatives and therapists. Innovative functions increase the well-being and health of those affected. In preliminary projects such as 24h-QuAALity, iToilet, ISA, SignAAL and Co-Train, the consortium has successfully developed and tested ICT building blocks to support elderly people with cognitive disabilities. In the project, these experiences with existing IT systems and with ELGA serve as a starting point to enable a continuous information supply in mobile care and support.

The LICA system will support the most important participants in the care process such as mobile care, doctors, pharmacies, relatives and therapists, as well as the clients themselves, with a new type of responsive user interface.

LICA works out the needs of end-users themselves and specifies the processes in work-shops with local representatives and regional stakeholders from politics and admin-istration. In this way, LICA makes it possible to exchange and evaluate care data (nurs-ing, care, therapy) via standardized interfaces (IHE, HL7, FHIR based) throughout Aus-tria. The networking – based on the Advisory Board and the contacts to local and re-gional authorities that the partners have – ensures the acceptance of the developed solution in the populations of the different regions. The heterogeneous needs of dif-ferent milieus and population groups as well as the socio-economic regional and na-tional environments are taken into account.

The project will create an ELGA-compatible software portal that can be connected to existing systems. Large-scale tests on at least 60 clients* will be carried out in differ-ent federal states with different survey methods in order to collect data on reduced workload and higher data availability for mobile care and nursing, relatives and other parties involved. The providers of mobile care and supply in the consortium them-selves ensure the development of LICA into a business model that can be imple-mented. The desired findings also include feedback on the usability and practical use and affordability of the tested functionalities for care services, relatives and caregiv-ers. The Care Summary, which can be integrated into ELGA, creates new possibilities for data exchange in the care sector. For the first time, it allows standardized data exchange with doctors and pharmacies as well as therapists and other stakeholders without media discontinuity.

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