Type of Project: Funded project Model project
digIRENA - Sustainable therapy success and a comprehensive aftercare offer with the help of a multimodal tele-rehabilitation platform

For the reasons mentioned above, rehabilitation and therapy successes are not sustained in many cases, which often leads to relapses. In order to improve this situation, a comprehensive, effective, interdisciplinary and multimodal aftercare offer in the field of IRENA aftercare is necessary. Currently, however, such aftercare services are not available. Digital telerehabilitation aftercare can be an innovative way out of this gap in care. With increasing digitalization and the spread of mobile technologies, such as smartphones or tablets, new opportunities are opening up to overcome the lack of care in rehabilitation aftercare and to sustainably consolidate the successes achieved in rehabilitation. However, there is still no purely app-based telerehabilitation aftercare that is both interdisciplinary and multimodal. All existing telerehabilitation aftercare offers are either unimodal or require extra hardware, which the manufacturer must provide to the patient. This model project is intended to test an innovative digital aftercare offer in conjunction with outsourced therapeutic care and to test its effectiveness. Initially, this model project is to be tested with orthopedic patients and, if proven effective, expanded to other patient groups. From this model project, insights can be gained into how and with what effectiveness telerehabilitation aftercare can be implemented in practice. The long-term aim is to provide a digitally supported, low-threshold aftercare service for rehabilitation patients in order to close the gap in aftercare services described above and to sustainably consolidate the therapeutic successes achieved during the rehabilitation measure. The DRV KBS would like to provide every rehabilitation patient with an opportunity to participate in aftercare following the rehabilitation measure. The digital aftercare measure can be applied flexibly in the home as well as in the inpatient or outpatient context. As a result, a large proportion of patients can be integrated into rehabilitation aftercare. The digital aftercare measures enable a patient-oriented approach in which a medical care provider is in direct contact with the patient.