How can AI improve care?
The award, which is endowed with €25,000, was presented at a ceremony in Berlin. With this special prize, the Bosch Health Campus, on behalf of the Robert Bosch Foundation, recognises the innovative project, which contributes to improving the healthcare system with sustainable digital solutions and AI.
The scientists involved in ProKIP (Process Development and Support for the Use of AI in Care) researched how AI solutions can be successfully integrated into care practice. This was based on theoretical and empirical findings. At the same time, the researchers developed an AI care readiness assessment. This is an evaluation tool that tests how well research projects are prepared for the use of artificial intelligence in care. For example, the benefits of AI systems, data quality and ethical issues were examined. Participatory approaches were also examined, looking at how stakeholders, such as nursing staff, patients, or relatives, can be involved in the development and use of AI. A platform was set up for knowledge and data exchange, and research workshops – known as labs – and specialist coaching services were established. The aim was to identify success factors for practical application. The approaches to data protection by design for care-related digital data were particularly innovative. The award highlights the innovative achievements of AI care projects and care practice and, with the AI Care Readiness Assessment, creates the first knowledge base on the AI maturity level of care facilities and clinics,’ says the project coordinator, Professor Karin Wolf-Ostermann, head of the Department of Nursing Science and Health Services Research at the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) at the University of Bremen. Researchers Dr Kathrin Seibert and Dominik Domhoff, Janissa Altona from the IPP, and Dagmar Borchers, Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Bremen, and her team played a key role in implementing the project at the University of Bremen.
The ProKIP project has accompanied and evaluated eight joint projects nationwide over several years as part of the funding programme ‘Making repositories and AI systems usable in everyday nursing care’ of the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. In addition to the University of Bremen, other partners involved in the project included Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Berlin University of Applied Sciences, the Association for Digitalisation in the Social Economy, Halle (Saale), and the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin. The project was funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.
The Ideas for Impact Award (formerly the Otto Mühlschlegel Award of the Robert Bosch Foundation) honours pioneering care concepts and social innovations that promise better health and a higher quality of life, especially for older people, while also having an impact on the qualitative development of healthcare as a whole. The Ideas for Impact Award is presented every two years – this year, for the first time, a special prize will also be awarded.
Further information:
www.public-health.uni-bremen.de/forschung/abteilung-7-pflegewissenschaftliche-versorgungsforschung
Questions answered by:
Prof. Dr. Karin Wolf-Ostermann
Department of Nursing Science and Health Services Research at the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP)
Department of Human and Health Sciences
University of Bremen
Telephone: +49 421 218-68960
Email: wolf-ostermann@uni-bremen.de
