DITIS - Virtual collaborative teams for home healthcare

DITIS is a system that supports dynamic Virtual Collaborative Medical Teams dealing with the home-healthcare. It supports the dynamic creation, management and co-ordination of virtual medical teams, for the continuous treatment of the patient at home, and if needed for periodic visits to places of specialized treatment and back home. DITIS is an Internet (web) based Group Collaboration system with secure fixed and GPRS/GSM/WAP mobile connectivity.
DITIS was designed to deliver a product that can improve the quality of the citizen’s life. Contrary to state of the art health processing structure which is, in all practical terms facility-based care, this project aimed to shift the focus into home-based care, where everything is moving around the patient. The virtual healthcare team was able to provide dedicated, personalized and private service to the home residing patient on a need based and timely fashion, under the direction of the treating specialist. The main goal was the chronic and severe patients, such as cancer patients, to enjoy ‘optimum’ health service in the comfort of their home (i.e. a focus on wellness), feeling safe and secure that in case of a change in their condition the health care team would be (virtually) present to support them.
Chronic patients, such as the cancer patient, can now enjoy ‘optimum’ health service, with improved quality of life, in the warmth of their own friendly environment, without a degradation in the quality of care provided to them,