Through this award, the Bosch Health Campus, on behalf of the Robert Bosch Foundation, recognizes innovative projects that contribute to improving the healthcare system with sustainable digital solutions and AI.
 

How can AI improve nursing care?
 

Researchers participating in the ProKIP project (Process Development and Support for the Use of AI in Nursing Care) studied how AI solutions can be successfully integrated into nursing practice. They established the basis for this through theoretical and empirical findings. At the same time, the researchers developed an AI Care Readiness Assessment, an evaluation tool to test how well research projects are prepared to use artificial intelligence in care.
 

They examined the benefits of AI systems, data quality, and ethical issues, for instance. The researchers also examined participatory approaches to determine how stakeholders, including nursing staff, patients, and relatives, could be involved in developing and using AI.
 

The researchers set up a platform for knowledge and data exchange, as well as research labs and specialist coaching services. The goal was to identify success factors for practical applications. Their approaches to data protection by design for care-related digital data were particularly innovative.
“This award recognizes the innovative achievements of AI care projects and care practices. With the AI Care Readiness Assessment, we are creating the first knowledge base on the AI maturity level of care facilities and clinics,” said Professor Karin Wolf-Ostermann, project coordinator and head of the Department of Health Services Research at the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) at the University of Bremen.
 

University of Bremen project researchers include Dr. Kathryn Seibert, Dominik Domhoff, and Janissa Altona from the IPP, as well as Dagmar Borchers, a professor of applied philosophy at the University of Bremen, and her team.
 

Over several years, the ProKIP project accompanied and evaluated eight joint projects nationwide as part of the “Making Repositories and AI Systems Usable in Everyday Nursing Care” funding program from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space.
 

Partners in the project included the University of Bremen, Charité – Universit?tsmedizin Berlin, Berlin Hochschule für Technik, the Verband für Digitalisierung in der Sozialwirtschaft, Halle (Saale), and the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. The project received financial support from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space.
 

The “Ideas for Impact” award (formerly the Otto Mühlschlegel Prize of the Robert Bosch Foundation) honors groundbreaking care concepts and social innovations that improve health and quality of life, especially for older adults, while impacting the qualitative development of healthcare as a whole. The “Ideas for Impact” award is presented every two years, and the special award was awarded for the first time this year.
 

Further information:
 

https://www.public-health.uni-bremen.de/research/department-7-nursing-science-and-health-services-research

Contact:
 

Prof. Dr. Karin Wolf-Ostermann
Department of Health Services Research
Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP)
Faculty of Human and Health Sciences
University of Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218-68960
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