SENSDOC

Sensor-based care support for the home

Making care safer and easier - with digital care plans, sensors and AI.

In the SENSDOC project, we are working with a partner to develop an innovative solution for home and outpatient care: the aim is to provide better support for people in need of care - for example after a stroke or repeated falls - and to ensure that they are cared for at home. The focus here is particularly on informal carers and relatives, who are often overwhelmed by the complexity and responsibility of providing care. At the same time, outpatient services are reaching their limits due to time pressure and a shortage of skilled staff.
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Our approach: networking care, sharing responsibility

SENSDOC combines a professional digital care documentation system (NursIT's CareIT) with a simple, tablet-based interface that is used directly on site with the person in need of care. The system is supported by sensors that automatically record vital data and activities. The result is a hybrid care system that facilitates collaboration between professional services and informal caregivers - supplemented by intelligent reminders and real-time monitoring.

How the SENSDOC system works

The SENSDOC system combines modern sensor technology, a central care database and digital user interfaces to create an intelligent ecosystem for home care.

At the heart of the system is the SENSDOC database, which brings together all care measures, observations and sensor data. Care staff use the CareIT platform to create structured care plans - including medical history, risk assessments and daily tasks. These plans are distributed to the respective roles: to outpatient care staff, informal caregivers or directly to the patients themselves.

Care support at home

The tablet is used for people in need of care at home. It displays relevant tasks as interactive reminders, documents entries (e.g. blood pressure or temperature) and automatically receives data from connected sensors - e.g. on movement, sleep quality, vital signs or fluid intake.

All entries - whether manual or automated - are stored centrally and can be monitored in real time by professional care staff via a new CareIT dashboard. This allows telecare staff to keep track of many patients at the same time, recognize critical developments at an early stage and intervene in a targeted manner.
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Our contribution as NursIT:

As part of the project, NursIT is developing the central SENSDOC database, in which all nursing measures, observations and sensor data are brought together. We are also expanding our digital care documentation system CareIT to include a specially developed dashboard for telecare staff, which enables the simultaneous monitoring and control of several care processes. We are also integrating artificial intelligence for speech processing and automated analysis of care-related information. FHIR-based interoperability throughout ensures that all system components communicate with each other in a standardized, structured and secure manner.

What does SENSDOC stand for?

  • More safety for people in need of care through automated early warning systems.
  • Relief for relatives, who are supported with clear plans, reminders and simple data entry.
  • Better coordination of outpatient care, supported by digital documentation, sensor technology and AI.

The project is being evaluated in a pilot test with 20 patients under real-life conditions.


Funding information

SENSDOC is funded by the Central Innovation Program for SMEs (ZIM) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK).

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