Next generation ICT platform to harmonize medical, care and lifestyle services

Abstract

The key to active and healthy living/aging in the 21st century is to establish an individualized everyday-living environment that supports positive health behaviour and sustainable healthy lifestyle by means of applied ICT technology. Next generation ICT platforms have to support health-service as well as care and life-style service in a uniform as well as standardised way to enable integrated, scalable, and thus cost efficient solutions for the society. The KIT-Aktiv service validation platform aims to promote healthy activities to a broad audience and enable its users to take control of their health. KITAktiv provides a flexible ICT infrastructure to promote, support and monitor health related activities. By utilizing this infrastructure, different services and processes for a wide range of diverse user groups are supported. While school children can track their daily activities or organize a sport competition, older adults might monitor their prescribed exercise program to discuss it with their physician, later on. By integrating stakeholders from different domains like schools, sports, care-giving and medicine, the provided services do not only provide a value on their own, but can be incorporated in existing support or treatment processes. As the costs per user are very low (around 5€), the infrastructure can be scaled up to a large user group easily.