The University of Twente will lead the four-year Interreg project CARE-FLOW to improve the cross-border collaboration between the Netherlands and Germany through intelligent decision support in capacity planning and patient flow optimisation. In both countries, the healthcare systems are under growing pressure due to rising costs, increasing demand, and staff shortages. The consortium of software companies, universities, and healthcare organisations will use regional data, prognosis, and planning algorithms to utilise available resources more efficiently for better health outcomes.
General information
The programme
Time | Activity |
|---|---|
15:30 - 15:40 | Opening remarksProf.Dr.ir. Boudewijn Haverkort, Dean EEMCS, University of Twente |
15:40 - 16:00 | Keynote talkProf.Dr. Maroeska Rovers, Scientific Director TechMed Centre, University of Twente |
16:00 - 16:45 | Introduction to the CARE-FLOW project and Q&ADr. Derya Demirtas, Project Leader of the CARE-FLOW project |
16:45 - 17:00 | Official launch of the CARE-FLOW project |
17:00 - 17:30 | Informal drinks |
Registration
- Costs: Free
- Available spots: 80
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Organisation
Care-Flow
The project’s objective is to develop and evaluate healthcare software products and algorithms that improve the streamlining of patient flows and capacities in the program area, ensuring healthcare access and efficiency. We focus on emergency services, hospitals, and care facilities and their collaboration across the border. Due to the geographical proximity in the border region, the duplication of, e.g., ambulances and (intensive care) beds is not necessary. Rather, the joint use of capacities across the border offers the opportunity to provide patients with the care they need and to reduce overcapacity. This is a complex planning task that requires a substantial amount of coordination. We support this planning task. We use methods from the fields of IT, artificial intelligence, and analytics to ultimately manage patient flows between healthcare facilities and capacities within the region intelligently using software and algorithms. The algorithms enable data-driven decisions based on demand forecasts. Besides regular demand, we also consider peak demand, e.g., pandemics, as cross-border collaboration is even more important due to the high demand. We develop the software based on feedback from our partners in the healthcare sector to remove barriers to practical implementation. We simplify the use of the products through a new training concept. The cross-border perspective on patient flows and capacities offers great potential to improve efficiency, quality, and health outcomes in the program area. The cross-border consortium comprises companies, universities, and partners from the healthcare sector and combines the necessary expertise to address requirements from Germany and the Netherlands.
Choir
CHOIR is a research center within the University of Twente (UT), the Netherlands. It is currently one of the most active and productive research groups in the field of Operations Research and Management in Healthcare. Through Research, Education and Valorization, we help healthcare practitioners face their complex logistical challenges.
