On 26 January 2022, the team of TUD successfully held their planned local Community of Interest Event with about 25 interested participants.

The target audience was primarily clinical researchers and care providers from the region of Dresden (Saxony, Germany) who are interested in Virtual Coaching, personalised assistance for patients by technical means, and eHealth in general.

Hannes Schlieter as head of TUD’s research group Digital Health and technical manager of the vCare project presented the vCare concept in general. Kai Gand, research associate at the TUD team, gave insights on the clinical pathways as a central tool to govern the care as supported by the Virtual Coach. The Professional Portal and Avatar App have been showcased by Emanuel Sandner, research engineer from AIT, as being in charge of the caregiver and patient user interfaces. Lucia Pannese, CEO of Imaginary, outlined concept and approach of the Rehability Serious Games.

We hope for fruitful future discussion with current and hopefully newly attracted partners on how Virtual Coaching can improve care.

The fifth edition of the vCare Newsletter is out! Learn about how vCare has designed the virtual coach avatar and how external clinical sites validate the stroke evaluation protocol. Do not miss!

Read in our recently released vCare article in Frontiers in Public Health, Virtual Coaching for Rehabilitation: The Participatory Design Experience of the vCare Project, how we have conceptualised and implemented the end-user involvement!

The fourth edition of the vCare Newsletter is out! Learn about vCare’s Living Lab approach, first user feedback on the vCare virtual coaching solution and about vCare’s usage of standards. Do not miss!

The vCare project is mentioned in European Commission‘s Health, Wellbeing & Ageing Newsletter update – 14/04/2021. Do not miss the chance to learn about vCare’s approach for machine learning and cardiac rehabilitation in our Romanian clinical reference site.

The third edition of the vCare Newsletter is out! Learn why vCare can be so useful in Romania, what is so specific about the vCare coach in comparison with other projects, what are main challenges of machine learning or how serious games are an essential component of the services proposed by the vCare coach.

We are proud that vCare was named as positive technological example of  in the slot “Rehabilition technology in clinical practice”, presented by Carmen Laplaza Santos (Deputy Head of Unit – Health Innovations, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission) in the course of the Symposium I²-CoRT („innovation and implementation accelerator for complex rehabilitation technology“).

See for details on the workshop here: https://www.i2-cort.eu/opening-symposium/first-i2-cort-symposim/

The primary concepts, the overall project scope as well as requirements and implementation plan of the vCare project are now presented in Frontiers in Digital Health in order to scientifically dissemenitate our core ideas – enjoy reading.

Find the publication available here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2020.546562/

Do not miss the recently released vCare Newsletter Issue 2 to, among others, get to how Participatory Design elements support the implementation of the Virtual Coach.