A new rehabilitation project receives support from the Dam Foundation
"We will develop a coordination practice that is simpler and more transparent for everyone involved in the rehabilitation process," says project manager Anne-Lene Sand-Svartrud, Diakonhjemmet Hospital. Here together with Anders Bjørneby, Flow Technologies, from the DRIV project group.
The DRIV project will receive NOK 400,000 from the Dam Health program and can thus start as planned in April 2025. The goal is to make it easier to coordinate measures when a patient needs services from multiple professional groups, sectors or service levels at the same time.
DRIV stands for Digital Rehabilitation Support and Innovative Enterprises. The project group will investigate how information sharing and coordination of services can be made easier. They will also assess the usability of an existing mobile application that has been developed to ensure good flow in the rehabilitation process.
– The purpose of using the app as digital support is to make rehabilitation more transparent for everyone, says project manager Anne-Lene Sand-Svartrud at the Unit for Health Services Research and Innovation (EHI), Diakonhjemmet Hospital.
The app will give healthcare personnel a comprehensive overview of measures to be coordinated. The patient will have their rehabilitation goals, plans, questionnaires and communication with therapists all in one place.
– Coordination of measures is absolutely central to all rehabilitation processes, points out Sand-Svartrud. She therefore expects the project to be relevant to many. The application was submitted by the Norwegian Rheumatology Association (NRF), and user contributors from the NRF and REMEDY Patient Council are already involved. In addition, user representatives from two municipalities will contribute to a diagnostic perspective that encompasses more than musculoskeletal injuries, diseases and ailments.
Others in the project group are managers and therapists from Modum municipality, Indre Østfold municipality, Vikersund Bad Rehabilitation Center AS, Skogli Health and Rehabilitation Center AS, the health technology company Flow Technologies, and Professor Ingvild Kjeken from EHI.
- We look forward to developing a coordination practice that provides better resource utilization, interaction and coherence in each rehabilitation process, says Kjeken.
