Mirror therapy is a common therapy to help patients recover after an accident in which an arm or hand is paralyzed. It activates mirror neurons and fools the brain into perceiving the paralyzed arm or hand is still moving. This stimulates the brain which is an important aspect to improve recovery. A …

Virtual Reality (VR) can bridge the gap between theoretical educative materials and complex real-life situations that ambulance nurses face in practice⁠. The ability to simulate scenarios from a compelling caregiver perspective offers a powerful learning method⁠. We aim to contribute to the training …

Het Platform Inzet van Technologie voor Gezondheid en Welzijn (PIT) beoogt bij te dragen aan de duurzame implementatie van technologische innovaties in (gezondheids)zorg en welzijn (digitale zorg en ondersteuning). In deze kennisagenda bestaan twee inhoudelijke hoofdthema's beschreven: 1) implementatie …

In the project “Fieldlabs, 21st Century community care”, directed by ROC of Amsterdam, 17 partners in care, education, local authorities, technology providers and research institutes collaborate in the Amsterdam region. Fieldlabs aims to innovate education in care, in order to make it ‘21st century proof’. …

The assessment of care in homecare today is complex. Nurses have to decide on care for clients with multiple health problems. Technological innovations promise solutions for support of self-management of older people. We do not know, however, how and when nurses assess eHealth. A qualitative study design …

The introduction of consumer-grade virtual reality (VR) headsets has led to new and engaging methods for physical rehabilitation. Not only does VR provide the means to bring everyday situations into the rehabilitation therapy, and thereby help their transition into rehabilitation throughout everyday …

From the moment we set our first steps we practise walking until it eventually becomes second nature. However, due to injury, illness, or disease, someone might lose control over this automated task. In these cases, physical therapy is often used to help restore a patient’s use of muscles and train a …

Het eerste doel is het evalueren en verbeteren van machine learning algoritmes voor insulineadviezen voor jongeren met diabetes type 1. Het tweede doel is het ontwikkelen van een kennisbank met geanonimiseerde datasets ten behoeve van de opleiding HBO-ICT. Studenten kunnen hiermee praktijkervaring opdoen …

In mental healthcare, blended care (online combined with face to face treatment) is presented as a mundane practice. Most mental health care organizations have ‘opened’ their electronic patient records for patients, as well as provided for online treatment interventions like psycho-education and cognitive …

We aim to gain a better understanding of context-specific barriers to and facilitators of implementation of integrated care by doing a retrospective assessment of seven years of Embrace. This Dutch integrated person-centred health service for older adults was based on two evidence-based models (the Chronic …