Consultation Room 2030
Continuity of care from hospital to home
The sustainability of healthcare is under pressure because of staff shortages, financial limitations, and societal expectations. Technological innovations could offer solutions, but many innovations in healthcare are characterized by non-adoption or by failed attempts to scale up, spread distantly, or sustain the innovation long-term at the organization or system level. Consultation Room 2030 addresses the challenge of designing future-proof, patient-centred care pathways that support continuity of care between hospital and home.
Within the Convergence Health & Technology Flagship Consultation Room 2030, researchers from Erasmus MC, Erasmus University Rotterdam and TU Delft work together to explore how digital technologies can be implemented sustainably in healthcare practice. By combining expertise in medicine, technology, design, implementation science, governance and health economics, Consultation Room 2030 aims to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable, accessible and patient-centred healthcare.
What the Consultation Room 2030 Flagship works on
The Flagship works across five care domains: Acute care, Chronic care, Complex care, Mental healthcare, and Palliative care. Across these domains, researchers study how digital technologies can support continuity of care between hospital and home, while ensuring that innovations remain safe, accessible and meaningful for patients and healthcare professionals. Projects focus on:
- home monitoring and hybrid care pathways;
- digital self-management support;
- AI-supported healthcare applications;
- implementation and scaling of digital health innovations;
- patient-centred co-creation and evaluation;
- and new approaches to financing and organizing digital healthcare.
This Flagship takes up the challenge of designing the Consultation Room of the future in and outside the hospital through building on existing initiatives (level 1), connecting, comparing, and integrating what is required for these initiatives to become embedded sustainably in the broader healthcare system (level 2) and by extending our network while facilitating learning and identifying the most promising solutions (level 3).
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The consultation room of the future: physical and digital
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Long before many current discussions around hybrid care and hospital-at-home became mainstream, Consultation Room 2030 started exploring how care could move more effectively between hospital and home. In this story, Joke Hendriks, Richard Goossens and Kees Ahaus discuss the broader vision behind the Flagship: from redesigning care pathways and home monitoring to understanding how digital innovations can be implemented in ways that work for both patients and healthcare professionals. Read the interview. |
Innovation highlights
Remote pregnancy care
Researchers are working on hybrid care pathways and remote monitoring for high-risk pregnancies through the PregnaDigit consortium. Together with international partners and MedTech companies, the Flagship explores how pregnancy care can partly move from hospital to home while maintaining safety and continuity of care.
Home monitoring in pulmonary care
Within the chronic care domain, researchers are developing digital self-management and home monitoring tools for patients with pulmonary fibrosis and sarcoidosis. These projects combine clinical expertise, patient journey mapping and machine learning approaches to support more personalized care.
AI-supported mental healthcare
Several projects explore how AI and digital tools may support mental healthcare consultations and early detection of mental health conditions. Research includes automated speech analysis and AI-assisted healthcare support tools developed together with clinicians, researchers and external partners.
Remote palliative care
Researchers developed personalized dashboards and remote monitoring approaches to support palliative care at home. The Flagship also explores the future role of AI-driven remote palliative care and how digital technologies can improve quality of life and continuity of care for patients and families.
Digital care implementation and scaling
Beyond developing digital innovations themselves, Consultation Room 2030 studies how technologies can be integrated sustainably into healthcare systems. Researchers investigate implementation barriers, governance, financing models, data infrastructure and organizational change needed to scale digital healthcare responsibly
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Policy & societal impact
Researchers within Consultation Room 2030 contribute to broader discussions on digital healthcare implementation, reimbursement, governance and hospital-at-home strategies. The Flagship is connected to national and European initiatives focused on digital health transformation, hybrid care and future healthcare systems.
Partners & ecosystem
The Flagship collaborates with healthcare organizations, patient groups, policy networks, insurers, MedTech companies and international partners, including initiatives within the European University Hospital Alliance (EUHA), European Respiratory Society networks and public-private partnerships around digital healthcare innovation.
Education & talent development
Consultation Room 2030 contributes to interdisciplinary education through MSc thesis projects, guest lectures, student involvement in Flagship projects and collaborations across Erasmus MC, TU Delft and Erasmus University Rotterdam. Flagship themes are integrated into courses on digital transformation, AI and healthcare innovation.
Looking ahead
In the coming years, Consultation Room 2030 aims to further strengthen the implementation, evaluation and scaling of digital healthcare innovations across different healthcare domains. The Flagship is working towards becoming a Centre of Expertise on digital health by identifying the most promising approaches to structurally embed such technologies in care networks and facilitate inter-organizational learning. This will facilitate a sustainable, interdisciplinary research group with the ability to provide solutions for current healthcare issues and proactively facilitate future changes in healthcare.
Future activities include:
- developing frameworks and toolkits for scaling digital healthcare innovations;
- strengthening collaborations with healthcare organizations, policy networks and industry;
- contributing to national and European digital health initiatives;
- and supporting the transition from pilot projects to sustainable healthcare implementation.
