Background: At the Center for Rheumatology the Patient's voice and needs are always central in the planning and development of the organization and its’ services and structure. The Patient Council at the unit, with representatives from 14 different patient organizations, is a core facility that is always addressed when decisions are to be made that affects the patients. The need of a structure for digital re-visits at the clinic was raised in the Patient Council meeting.
Objectives: To develop a structure for a fully digital re-visit where all the preparations, the actual visit and the documentation and follow up could be conducted using different e-Health solutions and digital tools.
Methods: By first asking the involved patient representatives about desired interfaces and features of the end solution, we could decide on which available tools and structures we could build the digitial re-visit around. A working group including patients, health care providers at the unit and technical staff, together formed the end product.
Results: A fully digitalized structure for re-visits to different health care providers (physicians, nurses, physiotherapists etc) is now up and running with an increasing number of visits every week.
Conclusion: By asking the patients about what is most important for them we focus on solutions and services that the patients really need and ask for. If we involve patients in the process from the very beginning, we know that we are doing the right thing and that we use our resources in the best way.
Disclosure of Interests: None declared
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-eular.8510