eHealth and remote patient management

Telemonitoring patients in their home through “The Box” that was developed with the Department of Cardiology has been extended to the Diabetes Box and the Post-op Surgery Box.

Our aim is to further develop and improve these eHealth and remote patient management techniques and investigate their best use, also together with the patients.

The LUMC has initiated the National eHealth Living Lab (NeLL) that now encompasses 68 researchers, about half of whom PhD students. Within this network, over 90 studies in eHealth, artificial intelligence and hybrid care are performed.

The theme is linked to the majority of core facilities at the LUMC and benefits from its excellent network of state-of-the-art resource centers. This includes, but it is not limited to, the Animal Welfare Body, the Biobank, the Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, the Flow Cytometry core facility and the Microscopy facility. Through the epidemiological work that is carried out within the theme, there furthermore is a strong link to large international databases and national studies, such as the large population-based cohort of the NEO study (Nederlandse Epidemiologie van Obesitas) or the LOAS study (Leiden Outcomes OsteoArthritis Study) both with over 6000 participants that are performed at the LUMC. Our theme is also affiliated with the data infrastructure of the ELAN network which enables collaborations with the primary care physicians in the region.

The addition of the Campus The Hague with its Population Health groups has strengthened the representation of primary prevention research in the theme.

Email: Info.prevention@lumc.nl