The demographic changes and the progress in medical technology present new questions for the health system. How can the teamwork of the protagonists in health care be constructed more efficiently? How can we optimize the support of health care and aftercare? And how have the living and habitation of tomorrow to look like to permit the elderly a maximum of well-being and independence? The information and communication technologies (ICT) help to find answers to the challenges of the future and to implement them adequately.
OFFIS as Designer
For many years, OFFIS has researched and developed information technologies for health care and medicine. The epidemiological cancer register of Lower Saxony and the significant participation in the development of the international medical image communication standard DICOM are only two of the numerous examples of the successful OFFIS work. We understand health not only as the absence of sickness, but rather – following the definition of the World Health Organization WHO – as a condition of full physical, mental, and social well-being. Of particular significance to our work is the subject “Ambient Assisted Living,” the technical support of people in their daily lives.
Concrete Applications
We have classified our concrete applications of the division Health's ICT-Research and -Development in the following R&D-Groups:
Data Management and Data Analysis
