Every year, very many surgeries take place on the hand or wrist, for example because of a fracture or a neurological condition. Together with the Diakonessenhuis and with the support of Zilveren Kruis, we have developed MyHand for these patients. The objective is that patients are properly guided with necessary information through one or more of the care pathways, and know how recovery can proceed. For this purpose, the patient provides the pain score and fills in questionnaires how the recovery is going. The score of these and the progression of recovery is transparent to the patient and the caregiver. Based on the last completed score, the healthcare provider can determine if action is necessary, contact should be made, or an appointment made. The goal is to thereby reduce the influx of non-necessary visits to the hospital and relieve the burden on caregivers.

MyHand will be validated at Diakonessen Hospital, but can also be implemented in other hospitals.

Together with Amsterdam UMC, IRecover has been developed. IRecover is intended for patients who are scheduled for surgery. The starting point is that a good recovery means that after surgery you can do (almost) the same in daily life as before. Through the application, the lifestyle pattern before surgery is recorded. The recovery advice is tailored after surgery the previous daily activities can be picked up again quickly and safely. Studies show that patients who use the IRecover app recover significantly faster from major abdominal surgery than patients who do not use the app (The Lancet).

The app has already won several awards, including the VGZ Zinnige Zorg Award 2021. IRecover is already being used in several Dutch hospitals.

Led by the UMCG and a consortium of healthcare partners, the Kort & Fit application was developed with the goal of giving leg amputation patients and the informal caregivers more tools that promote self-management, autonomy and self-reliance, thereby contributing to quality of life. Among other things, patients can measure adjusted) BMI, see developments in activities (steps), track pain scores and mood, and store exercises and data on prosthesis. A questionnaire also focuses on the caregiver. Data can be shared at various stages of the post-operative journey with various healthcare providers around the country including rehabilitation physicians and orthopedic instrument makers.

Depending on the relevant care pathway, the patient receives the right information at the right times throughout the pathway.

For health care providers, Kort & Fit means that the patient is better informed, can act earlier on certain problems and comes to the consultation less for minor issues.