JMIR Publications

ABSTRACT

Background:

From a healthcare professional perspective, COVID-19 brings a lot of challenges but also increases the need for digital healthcare. Because healthcare professionals are also at risk of infecting themselves, in-person visits need to be reduced to an absolute minimum. Connected care solutions including telehealth, remote patient monitoring and secure communications between clinicians and their patients, may thus rapidly become the first choice in such public health emergencies.

Objective:

The idea of the COVID-19 Caregiver Cockpit (C19CC) was to build a free-of-charge web-/APP-solution where all different scenarios and use-cases for health care professionals working in a COVID-19 environment can be covered.

Methods:

The COVID-19 Caregiver Cockpit (C19CC) is an extension module inside the CANKADO environment. The underlying architecture of the multi-lingual CANKADO is a cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) with access rights management and function-based access options.

Results:

Through non-structured interviews with physicians in different countries, taking care of COVID-19 patients, a couple of different scenarios were identified where telemedicine or connected care solution could rapidly improve patient care. These scenarios included outpatient care, discharge management, remote tracking of patients with chronic diseases, and including infected physicians under quarantine into telehealth services.

Conclusions:

The COVID-19 Caregiver Cockpit is the result of an agile and iterative development process together with physicians. It aims to improve care and safety for those who are infected by COVID-19.