Reorientation of the Austrian parent-child preventive care programme. Part VII: Options for an electronic implementation

Project team: Stefan Mathis-Edenhofer
Duration: May 2011 - March 2012
Publication: HTA-Projektbericht Nr. 054: https://eprints.aihta.at/948

Suggested by: Austrian Ministry of Health
Language: German

Background:
The last-year project parent-child-prevention program ‘new’ aimed to give basic support to a decision on a new prevention strategy for parents during pregnancy and infants. Part I of the project summarised epidemiological data on specific risks, part II described international screening policies and part III gave and overview on the financial structure of the current parent-child-prevention program. Part IV – which comprises a comprehensive summary of the results – highlighted the critical importance of electronically realised systems for data collection and data analysis in the context of a newly structured parent-child-prevention program.

At the moment Austria organises and performs the activities around the parent-child-prevention program (“Mutter-Kind-Pass”) paper-based. Aim of this new project part VII is to learn from main national and international parent-child initiatives by analysing the information- and communication processes around these initiatives. In the main, the project aim to rule out possibilities of the implementation of activities around a ‘new’ parent-child-prevention program in the context of eHealth and particularly in the context of ELGA.

Aims of the project:

• To identify information processing- and communication elements of a ‘new’ parent-child-prevention program by an analysis on the base of the preceding project parts (part I-IV) and, additionally by analysing a selection of national and international parent-child-prevention initiatives.
• To test (on an conceptual level) the feasibility to implement information processing – and communication elements within ELGA or within alternative ways.
• To demonstrate possibilities and obstacles

Research questions:

Which are the activities and elements of a proposed “new parent-child-prevention program” on the base of the previous project parts?Which are national and international parent-child-prevention initiatives Which information processes and communication components exist within main parent-child-prevention initiatives?What can ELGA offer to implement information processes and communication components?Which parent-child-prevention activities could be implemented through ELGA and which alternatives should be considered?What are the challenges of implementing components of a “new parent-child-prevention program”

Methods:
Ad 1 and 2:

• Identification of activities to consider for a “new parent-child-prevention program” based on the previous project parts
• systematic literature search on electronically implemented national and international parent-child-prevention initiatives
• Identification of information and communication components of a “new parent-child-prevention program”

Ad 3: Description of information and communication components of a “new parent-child-prevention program”, use cases, activities

Ad 4: Description of ELGA framework conditions

Ad 5 and 6:

• Description of perspectives on implementation possibilities, its limitations, preconditions and alternatives

Time schedule/ milestones:
5/2011: Definition of the study protocol
6/2011: Literature search, literature selection, internal workshop on activities and contents of a “new parent-child-prevention program”, external contact to ELGA-experts
7/2011: Description of the background, description of model projects
8/2011: Analysis of electronic parent-child-prevention initiatives to describe activities and contents
9/2011: Identification and description of information and communication components for main activities of a proposed “new parent-child-prevention program”
10/2011: Writing the project report
11/2011: External review
12/2011: Revision, finalisation