Rehabilify

What is the problem?

Rehabilitation is a complex and vital process as part of the continuum of care for those seeking to regain or maintain their quality of life and improve function following significant injury or illness.
Rehabilitation can reduce disability, improve function and quality of life, and provide cost-effective benefits in the short and long term. However, rehabilitation needs professional long-term follow-up1, and often daily intervention. This is usually done at specialized/central/referral hospitals, which are often far from the patients' rural or isolated homes.
Failing to provide some form of rehabilitative service will increase morbidity and mortality; in areas where rehabilitative services are not available there is a bigger and increasing demand of acute care and long-term care services.
Demand for rehabilitation services is growing and it is expected to continue to be in high demand due to the ageing population, improvements in healthcare (survival rates from catastrophic injuries is higher than ever), and new technologies and treatments.

What is REHABILIFY?

The rehabilify solution offers a dual-system-based approach. On one side, a patient management center to all the involved professionals, following an integrated-care approach and incorporating a system to support decision-making. On the other hand, a patient with rehabilitation needs will benefit from an application that promotes self-management, behavioral change, and better follow-up.

rehabilify provides patients with intelligent support through suitable recommender systems focused on the main pillars of health adapted to each use-case and a managed digital community to provide peer support and motivation. To provide collaboration, cooperation, and continuous patients’ monitoring and follow-up, professionals have access to a management system that includes decision support systems for risk stratification and care plan definition. The rehabilify solution will be ready for integration with third-party solutions and devices thanks to an open portal that enables and supports a unique access point for prescription of remote rehabilitation solutions.

Documentation

Documentation is essential to maintain efficiency and effectiveness in application development, deployment, and maintenance.

  • Helps build within the team. Facilitates the transfer of knowledge.
  • It allows developers to understand the architecture, workflow and interactions within the application.
  • In situations where the original developers may not be available, documentation makes it easy for new teams to quickly understand how the application works.
  • Developers can refer to the documentation to understand how certain parts of the application are designed and how they can be modified without affecting other areas.
  • Allows integration with other tools and services. Documentation is essential to understand how that integration is done.
  • It provides users with a clear understanding of how to use the application, its features and functionalities.

Certification

Security and Privacy Compliance.

Certification within rehabilify has been defined and based on Label2Enable.

Label2Enable has been chosen because is one of the projects the European Commission has launched to contribute to an innovative, sustainable, and globally competitive health industry.
European standards are to ensure patient safety, quality of healthcare, effectiveness, interoperability, and productivity. Citizens, health care providers and health systems benefit from a swift uptake of health apps that significantly improve health outcomes. Health app manufacturers benefit from more efficiency in co-creating health apps that satisfy the needs of patients, health care providers and health authorities and regulators and accelerated time-to-market.

rehabilify platform supports data protection feature and compliance with GDPR. Ensure Data Protection by design and by default: Compliance to apply methodologies for data protection by design and by default as required by Art. 5 and 25 GDPR. Compliance to that applied methodologies of data protection by design and by default are in line with the Guidelines of the European Data Protection Board and the specific Guidelines of the national data protection authorities of the procurers' countries.

Health data is particularly sensitive information. It can identify individuals and reveal highly personal details of people's lives. Tracking health data can be necessary for the general wellbeing of people or to adequacy diagnoses and treat diseases. How health apps collect and use data can have profound implications for the individual and society as a whole. The development and governance of health apps therefore requires careful ethical consideration.
While this label focusses on the responsibilities of app manufacturers, it is important to note that the adherence to ethical principle is a shared responsibility between app manufacturers, deployers and end-users. Each party has to take appropriate and well-defined steps within their control.

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