Context

Detailed data on the course of healthcare treatments are needed for the evaluation of treatment methods in everyday clinical practice. One promising method for generating this data is the use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), in which the patients themselves provide information on their state of health. To this end, specific questions about abilities, resources and deficits are asked both at the beginning and at the end of treatment – similar to a medical assessment by a doctor, except that they are collected in the form of a questionnaire. This data can then be used to derive statements about the quality of certain forms of treatment and thus improve medical care. Filling out the questionnaires is not equally accessible to all patients: language, comprehension or even the length of the questionnaires can pose hurdles. The assistance system we are developing is therefore intended to help reduce these hurdles by supporting people in filling out the questionnaire. Our project acronym MIA-PROM therefore stands for [M]ultimodal [I]nteractive [A]ssistance for the collection of [P]atient [R]eported [O]utcome [M]easures.