Prehab2Rehab – Integrated and digitally supported care on patient pathways from prehabilitation to rehabilitation
Prehab2Rehab investigates how people can be best supported along the entire care pathway – before and after a planned surgery. The goal is to create an integrated, digitally supported, and individually tailored care that sustainably strengthens both patients and the healthcare system.
The primary goal of the project is to use digitally supported prehabilitation – i.e. a short-term and intensive preventive measure to increase fitness before a medical procedure – to optimize surgical outcomes, reduce subsequent morbidity (and possibly mortality) and thus sustainably improve the health of people undergoing surgery.
If it is possible to improve health before and after surgery in a medically effective and economically efficient way, shorter hospital stays, fewer infections and more effective rehabilitation processes can be expected.
This in turn would have a beneficial effect on the health economy, as the people affected – depending on the respective clinical picture – would be able to return to work earlier and spend more years of their lives in good health or require less care or medical aftercare.
Use cases are knee joint replacement, heart surgery and visceral oncological surgery.
Salzburg Research is leading the development of the “Digital Health Toolkit” – a technology mix to support the Prehab2Rehab patient pathway. One focus is on sensor integration, among other things.
