RehabAI@Home is a collaborative program that combines rehabilitation and movement sciences with artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship to support higher quality and more independent rehabilitation in the home setting. RehabAI@Home uses a demand-driven, patient-centred approach to realize user-friendly, affordable, and scalable AI-driven care technologies.
RehabAI@Home: AI-driven rehabilitation in the home setting
RehabAI@Home is a collaborative program combining rehabilitation and movement sciences with AI, and entrepreneurship to enhance rehabilitation at home. RehabAI@Home uses a demand-driven, patient-centred approach to realize user-friendly, affordable, and scalable AI-driven care technologies. The partners include Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and ROM InWest.
Why RehabAI@Home: Aging and improved healthcare will lead to more chronic conditions in the coming decades, resulting in physical limitations, reduced quality of life, high healthcare costs, and increased pressure on less healthcare staff. The number of people in the Netherlands with at least one chronic condition will increase from 10.5 million in 2022 to 12 million in 2050. Rehabilitation is key to reducing the care burden of chronic conditions and keeping people healthier at home. However both the production and the use of rehabilitation innovations stays behind. Only 3% of eHealth solutions in the Netherlands focus on rehabilitation in 2021. Furthermore, usage of wearables remains low at just 37%. Introducing user-friendly, affordable, and scalable AI-based innovations could help address this gap in innovation and care.
Our approach and process: RehabAI@Home adopts a demand-driven approach by starting with co-creation sessions involving patients, healthcare professionals, researchers, and companies to define project goals. It emphasizes applied technology and innovation in healthcare, utilizing experimental environments like living labs to test AI-based solutions. Projects are evaluated based on entrepreneurial and healthcare demand, user acceptance, and development stage. Ongoing monitoring and guidance from program members, including Business Developers at IXA and ROM inWest ensures practical applicability of projects. Any company can propose a project with one of the knowledge institutes to establish a PPP-project. Companies can contact Paul de Vries (p.m.de.vries@vu.nl) for more information. Researchers from participating knowledge institutes can contact their respective Business Developers.
Open Call: €1.5 Million Available for AI-Driven Home Rehabilitation Research