Digital Care Catalog GIDEA

Care institutions are under significant structural pressure. Skilled labor shortages, increasing care demands, and growing documentation requirements shape everyday work. At the same time, the market for digital assistive technologies is expanding dynamically. Institutions, payers, and political decision-makers are increasingly faced with the question of how innovations can be integrated into care delivery in a targeted, effective, and sustainable way.

Which technologies actually solve which problems in care?
The Digital Care Catalog provides guidance within the wide range of innovations through structured data, transparent evaluation mechanisms, and practice-oriented testing scenarios.

In the GIDEA project, Fraunhofer IGD, Caritasverband Darmstadt, and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences are developing a holistic innovation methodology to systematically identify burdensome indirect tasks in inpatient long-term care and to specifically address them with digital assistive technologies.

Orientation in a Dynamic Innovation Field

Digital solutions promise relief. However, their actual impact in daily care practice is often difficult to compare. Different quality criteria, lack of transparency, and limited testing opportunities make well-informed investment decisions challenging.

GIDEA therefore develops a dynamic catalog of criteria that systematically integrates technological, social, organizational, and economic evaluation dimensions. On this basis, transparent and comparable decision-making frameworks are created for care institutions, developers, manufacturers, and payers.