Implicit gender bias in the diagnosis and treatment of type 2 diabetes: A randomized online study

Aims: Implicit gender biases (IGBs) are unconscious evaluations about a person based on gender. IGBs of healthcare providers may affect medical decision making. This study investigated whether IGBs and genders of patients and general practitioners (GPs) influence diagnostics and treatment decisions in the context of diabetes type 2. Methods:...

Adapting care robot Tessa for early-stage dementia with implementation through general practitioners

Tessa is a social, assistive robot from the company Tinybots, designed to support people with early- to moderate stage dementia and other mild cognitive impairments.<br/>By giving verbal reminders and instructions, programmed by their formal and informal caregivers, Tessa gives people back their self-management and autonomy, enabling them to...

Recurring COVID-19 Vaccinations: What is the required performance of the vaccination system to keep the vaccination rate above a sufficient level and minimize virus spread, given uncertainties in vaccine supply and negative social influence regarding vaccinations?

The duration of protection that COVID-19 vaccines provide is still uncertain (Murray &amp; Piot, 2021). Therefore, a possible future scenario is that the entire population will need an extra dose of a vaccine. Yearly recurring flu vaccinations take place at general practices (GP), so this might also be the case for COVID-19 vaccinations. General...

The Digital Entrance for Primary Care: Translating patients’ and caregivers’ needs into a new way to interact and connect

The current pandemic has drastically changed the primary care field. Suddenly, GP practices had to implement more digital or ‘care at a distance’ methods to keep interacting with patients. This was reflected by the strong increase in telephone consults and practices that used video calling for the first time. However, the sudden digital...

Designing the road to the implementation of Heart for Health's eHealth solution at general practitioners: formulating advice for future development

The Dutch healthcare system is currently under a lot of stress. Contemporary social, technological, economic and political trends demonstrate an emerging pressure on both primary and secondary care. The trend with the most profound impact, is the growing amount of chronically ill patients, causing a high pressure on the workforce and on limited...

Designing a device to treat skin lesions

A skin lesion is an abnormal tissue formation on the skin, examples are skin cancers and nevi (moles and birthmarks). Every day, thousands of people have a skin lesion removed, for a number of different reasons. The lesion could be malignant (like skin cancers), show a risk of malignancy or removal could be for cosmetic or practical reasons. The...

A Clinical Decision Support System for General Practitioners

This project describes the development of a redesign of NHGDoc for ExpertDoc. NHGDoc is a clinical decision support system (CDSS) that supports Dutch GP’s in their decision making process by providing patient-specific medical advices with regard to medication, treatment and diagnosis. NHGDoc is integrated in the EHR provider of GP’s, a...