Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Ostgathe

Chair for Palliative Medicine, Head of Department Palliative Medicine, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen

palliativmedizin@uk-erlangen.de
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Digitalisation as an opportunity: how an app can support palliative care
Digital society

Digitalisation as an opportunity: how an app can support palliative care

News
9 July 2025

How can digitalisation succeed in sensitive medical fields such as palliative care? In this interview, researchers from the bidt project “PALLADiUM” explain how the app they have developed improves communication and collaboration.

Digital work environment

Palliative care as a digital working world: Perspectives and design options for the digital transformation of communication and collaboration processes in multi-professional care in the last phase of life (PALLADiUM)

Project

The project analysed and designed the digital working environment of palliative care. At the core of the project is the design of a digitally supported work system to improve multi-professional collaboration.

Publications

  • Wöhl, Moritz; Gimpel, Henner; Meindl, Oliver; Ostgathe, Christoph; Peuten, Sarah; Schneider, Werner; Steigleder, Tobias (2024)

    Boosting Multi-Professional Collaboration in Palliative Care Through Digital Technologies: An Action Design Research Study

    Journal article
    Business & Information Systems Engineering
    DOI: 10.1007/s12599-024-00897-0
    Project: PALLADiUM
  • Grimminger, Sandra; Peuten, Sarah; Markgraf, Moritz; Waldmann, Daniela; Heckel, Maria; Steigleder, Tobias; Klein, Carsten; Schneider, Werner; Gimpel, Henner; Ostgathe, Christoph (2022)

    Das persönliche Wort ist doch immer noch das Wichtigste – Anforderungen an ein digital-unterstütztes Arbeitssystem zur Förderung der Teamkommunikation und -kollaboration in der stationären Palliativversorgung

    Conference paper
    Proceedings of the 14. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Palliativmedizin, Bremen
    DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1754066
    Project: PALLADiUM
  • Peuten, Sarah; Grimminger, Sandra; Heckel, Maria; Steigleder, Tobias; Schneider, Werner; Ostgathe, Christoph (2022)

    Multiprofessionelle Kommunikation und Kollaboration als Herausforderung für die digitale Transformation im stationären Krankenhaussetting von Palliative Care

    Conference paper
    Proceedings of the 23. Jahrestagung des Deutschen Netzwerks Evidenzbasierte Medizin e. V., Lübeck
    DOI: 10.3205/22ebm067
    Project: PALLADiUM
  • Grimminger, Sandra; Heckel, Maria; Markgraf, Moritz; Peuten, Sarah; Wöhl, Moritz; Gimpel, Henner; Klein, Carsten; Ostgathe, Christoph; Steigleder, Tobias; Schneider, Werner (2023)

    Palliative care as a digital working world

    A mixed-method research protocol

    Journal article
    BioMed Central, BMC Palliative Care, Volume: 22, Nr. 102
    DOI: 10.1186/s12904-023-01173-w
    Project: PALLADiUM
  • Peuten, Sarah; Heckel, Maria; Steigleder, Tobias; Kurkowski, Sandra; Klein, Carsten; Meindl, Oliver; Gimpel, Henner; Schneider, Werner; Ostgathe, Christoph (2024)

    Raum- und settingspezifischer Informations- und Wissensaustausch im multiprofessionellen Team auf der Palliativstation. Implikationen für die Entwicklung eines digital unterstützten Arbeitssystems

    Conference paper
    Rolke, Roman; Schönhofer-Nellessen, Veronika, 15. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Palliativmedizin, Zeitschrift für Palliativmedizin, Volume: 25, Nr. 05, P. 70
    DOI: 10.1055/s-0044-1788517
    Project: PALLADiUM
  • Meindl, Oliver; Peuten, Sarah; Striebel, Xena; Gimpel, Henner; Ostgathe, Christoph; Schneider, Werner ; Steigleder, Tobias (2025)

    Designing Knowledge-Driven Digitalization: Novel Recommendations for Digitally-Supported Multiprofessional Collaboration

    Journal article
    Frontiers in Digital Health, Volume: 7, Nr. 1511973
    DOI: 10.3389/fdgth.2025.1511973
    https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth
    Project: PALLADiUM