Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESEFraunhofer IESE and Frankfurt University Hospital jointly develop a concept for the interoperability of clinical IT systems
Smooth patient transfer with new dashboard
Since April 2024, the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE has been working together with the University Center for Digital Healthcare (part of University Medicine Frankfurt) on a concept for an IT system that supports the transfer of patients from the intensive care unit to the normal ward. The aim of the project “One Viewpoint for Medical Information in Clinical Contexts” (OneViewMed for short) is to facilitate the work of medical staff with the help of a graphical dashboard and to create interoperability between the IT systems used on different wards. OneViewMed runs until November 2024 and is funded by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture (HMWK) as part of the “Digital University Hospital Frankfurt” digitalization project. The first cornerstones of OneViewMed were defined in a joint requirements workshop at the end of May.
In everyday clinical practice, intensive care units and normal wards use different hospital information systems (HIS), which are often not interoperable and therefore do not allow direct data exchange. As a result, when transferring patients, medical staff have to check important information for their treatment in different systems, which costs valuable time and is a potential source of error.
The OneViewMed project aims to better understand the needs of doctors at Frankfurt University Hospital and to develop a concept for an integrated IT system with a graphical user interface that eliminates media discontinuities. This system should be able to display data from the various systems and thus facilitate the work of medical staff.
OneViewMed is one of 14 sub-projects of the “Digital University Hospital Frankfurt” program. The aim of the funding, which has been running since 2018, is to develop and implement far-reaching digital solutions. These range from the introduction of an interoperability suite to make cross-system data available and the embedding of messenger systems for GDPR-compliant communication to the testing of real-time location system technologies, the introduction of new merchandise management and medication systems and the establishment of a data integration center in which medical care data is made available for scientific questions.
“With OneViewMed, we want to reduce system-related hurdles in the care of our patients and make relevant medical treatment data available to our medical staff with greater transparency. The collaboration with Fraunhofer IESE enables us to better penetrate the ecosystem of clinical systems,” says Dr. Michael von Wagner, CMIO of the University Hospital Frankfurt. Fraunhofer IESE offers the UKF the opportunity to design the future architecture of interoperability in a vendor-agnostic way thanks to its wide range of experience and knowledge of the various implementations of different industry partners.
Bernd Rauch, project manager of OneViewMed at Fraunhofer IESE, explains: “In the first step, we will design and implement a prototype for a specific use case with OneViewMed. But our vision is to enable a holistic multi-resource display in real time that is specially tailored to the complex needs of intensive care patients. With our interdisciplinary team, we contribute comprehensive expertise in the fields of requirements engineering, UX and UI design, software architecture, security and data protection. By working closely with the experts at Frankfurt University Hospital, we can ensure that the solution developed meets the actual requirements of everyday clinical practice.”
Contact:
Michael von Wagner, Universitätklinikum Frankfurt: michael.wagner@ukffm.de
Bernd Rauch, Fraunhofer IESE: bernd.rauch@iese.fraunhofer.de
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