Expires
2014-04-15

Title
Information communications technologies to enhance autonomy and participation in Multiple Sclerosis – IteMS
Multiple sclersois (MS) is a chronic disease of young citizens with only partial effective treatments and highly diverse outcomes from the very beginning.
Self-management is needed in the area of medical decision making especially through understanding prognosis and effects of treatments.
Self-management is needed in understanding and co-deciding when to perform brain imaging with MRI.
Self-management is necessary on motherhood choice.
Self-managament is needed in handling neurospsychiatric symptoms.
Self-management is needed to maintain or develop a physical active life-style.

Theme/ Activity/ Topic
ICT
PHC 26 – 2014: Self-management of health and disease: citizen engagement and mHealth

Organization
Universitry Medical Center

Country
Germany

Contact
http://ideal-ist.eu/ps-de-89340
heesen@uke.de

Proposal Outline:
We will develop a smartphone-applicable platform for patient information and self-management.

Four major modules will be addressed:
1. guiding decision making on immunotherapies including individual prognosis counseling as well as education on brain imaging.
2. guiding decisions on motherhood.
3. further develop web-based cognitive behavioural therapy for handling, fatigue, depression and coping of the disease.
4. developement of and accelerometry-connected activity enhancing programme.

Keywords:
multiple sclerosis, prognosis counselling, decision-making, accelerometry, cognitive-behavioural therapy

PARTNER PROFILE SOUGHT

Required skills and Expertise:
Experts in interactive smartphone-applications in health contexts, integrating OLAP (online-analytical-processing) tools, accelerometry.

Description of work to be carried out by the partner(s) sought:
App-development integrating different languages and inputs.

Type of partner(s) sought:
small or medium sized companies, universities, technical research institutes

Looking for a Coordinator for your proposal:
No