Advanced Modelling of Baltic cancER e-care AMB@R

#goodtimes On May 22-23, the international #AMBeR team met in Sweden for the Partner and Advisory Board Meeting, and the 2nd General Assembly. On the first day, the meeting took place at the #Ängelholm Hospital, where partners had a chance not only to get acquainted with the AMBeR Advisory Board but also to discuss topics of mapping and model building in e-Health, home monitoring of blood values for cancer patients and digitizing cancer rehabilitation. As it will have been a year since the project started, colleagues also had a chance to summarize the #communication activities. The meeting of the second day took place in #Helsingborg, where common and separate discussions of different work package members proceeded. This autumn #AMBeR team is meeting for the 3rd General Assembly in #Klaipėda. #AMBeR #digitalization #cancer #rehabilitation #Interreg

During the last week of June, we presented two of our exciting activities that are taking place at Ängelholm Hospital at the conference Design4Health2024 held at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Lab4Living was the host. Twenty-two countries were represented with a wide range of disciplines. The theme was equilibrium in a time of permacrisis, which puts the post-pandemic state of healthcare in perspective. Patrik Göransson Göransson presented the work, which propelled and established Cancer Rehabilitation Online, now allowing cancer patients to access an interdisciplinary rehabilitation team digitally when the need is greatest. Carljohan Orre presented the experience and co-design work that fuels the North West Initiative at the Hospital. This activity develops person-centred practices in the context of self-management support at the medical clinic. It was fun and exciting to share our experiences and focus on these activities with an audience of people who take a clear design perspective in their work and research to develop healthcare. We also presented how we will continue developing these experiences in our work on an implementation model with our partners from Denmark, Germany, Poland, and Lithuania in the Interreg South Baltic Programme project Advanced Modelling of Baltic cancER e-care AMB@R. The conference asked good questions and offered exciting discussions; there is a good chance we will return if the conference is held again. A very big thank you to all the organisers.

Congrats to nurse Lykke Maja Fabricius Hacke from Dept. of Oncology at Zealand University Hospital, who did the film from the AMBeR Kickoff Conference in Greifswald, on her Master´s degree in Communication!

We are very much looking forward to the collaboration and all the valuable input in the coming years from our new established Advisory Board. We are extremely grateful to you onboard! Alberto Lozano Platonoff Margareta Haag Egidijus Skarbalius Anne Bernth Sabine Hanß Dominik Dziurda Małgorzata Gałazka-Sobotka Steffen Flessa Kirsten Devantier and Markus Krohn

🏡 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐀. 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐱 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬’ 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬. ‘Blood Tests at Home’, the healthcare innovation project selected from our ‘Industry Call’ in partnership with Roche Danmark last summer, aims to enhance the quality of life for cancer patients by bringing care into their homes while also freeing up hospital resources for other important tasks. Before beginning chemotherapy, patients undergo blood tests to ensure they have adequate levels of white blood cells, platelets, hemoglobin and immune system function. Today, these blood tests must be done in hospital – and some patients require ongoing testing three to four times a week. Such frequent hospital visits place significant demands on patients and their caregivers. The Blood Tests at Home project aims to improve the quality of life for cancer patients and their caregivers through a new technology that enables them to perform these critical blood tests at home, eliminating the burden of multiple weekly hospital visits. In collaboration with partners in Germany and Poland, the team behind Blood Tests at Home is piloting a home-testing solution with 150 cancer patients from five hospitals located in Denmark, Germany and Poland. With this solution, the patient pricks their finger and completes a few simple steps to prepare the sample before inserting it into a scanner. When the results are ready, the patient photographs and submits them via the system’s dedicated health platform. The final iteration of the solution, which is under development, will be fully automated to send the results directly to the hospital. The team believes that this solution will make life easier for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy by reducing the number of hospital visits – and the risk of infection inherent in those visits. ‘In practical terms, it can help patients spend more time at home with their loved ones instead of travelling to central laboratories for blood tests. That's how it's done today. This is a new way of thinking, where diagnostic equipment is brought into patients' homes’, explains Niels Henrik Holländer, Chief Physician in the Oncology Department at Sjællands Universitetshospital in Næstved, and a member of the project team behind Blood Tests at Home along with Keld Hundewadt. The team’s ambition is to develop a solution that enhances patient treatment, improves their quality of life and benefits the overall healthcare system in Denmark – but which can also be scaled and extended to all other types of cancer patients with similar needs in Europe and the rest of the world.

Exciting week ahead for the AMBeR project! 🔔 Next week, Advanced Modelling of Baltic cancER e-care AMB@R team consisting of partners from 5 countries, will meet in #Sweden to participate in the #AMBeR Partner and Advisory Board Meeting and #AMBeR General Assembly. On May 22, the #AMBeR Partner and Advisory Board Meeting will be hosted at the #Ängelholm Hospital while the #AMBeR General Assembly will take place in #Helsingborg on May 23. 😎 Looking forward to the productive discussions and valuable connections! Check the agendas here: https://lnkd.in/dh6kwW44

AMBeR has now got a homepage up and running! 🙌 Visit us for more info on our project and its progress! https://lnkd.in/d552XVDh

One step to prepare the AMBeR protocol for pilot testing cancer patients meassuring their own blood values from home is to include health economic data from Germany, Poland and Denmark. Thanks to BETA.HEALTH® – An innovation platform sponsored by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and Roche for hosting a workshop for this preparation. https://lnkd.in/dqTNEfYm

Workshop in Klaipeda - AMBeR implementation support team roadtrip Advanced Modelling of Baltic e-cancER care AMB@R This week the implementation support team visited Klaipeda University to arrange a workshop for planning the #implementation of pilot tests in #digital #rehabilitation in #cancercare. With the multinational nature of this project it has been extremely interesting to map existing practices, barriers and possibilities which is guaranteed to bring a broad spectrum of experiences in implementation for building the AMBeR model. Thanks to Patrik Göransson, Aelita Bredelyte and her team, Goda Sakalauskaitė

Study trip to Johanniter Hospital and Roche Diagnostics In the AMBeR project we aim to pilot test digital solutions in cancer care, and one of these is home monitoring of blood values, which can hopefully save some of the many trips to the clinic for cancer patients and their relatives. As part of the preparation, a group of AMBeR partners recently visited the Johanniter GmbH Krankenhaus in Bonn/Germany and the Roche Diagnostics in Switzerland for a series of fruitfull discussions and knowledge sharing on remote patient monitoring in future #cancercare – and some hands-on in trying out some new Point-of-Care devices. Thanks to Prof. Yon-Dschun Ko and Dr. Eike B., as well as to Jens Pflueger and Rasmus Julius Hansen for organizing this round trip. Interreg South Baltic Programme Dariusz Szplit @Tomasz Stefaniak Bartłomiej Baumert Niels Henrik Holländer Rasmus Julius Hansen @Jens Pflueger (Roche) @Christian Schmidt Universitätsmedizin Greifswald Fabian Kleinke