The welfare technology commitment in Oslo Municipality has an overall aim of increasing safety, coping abilities and activity for patients. In recent years, entities in Oslo Municipality has seen a need for alternative ways to follow-up patients with chronic illnesses, mental disorders, and cancer. There is a need to raise the quality and increase the efficiency involved in the follow-up of these user groups. Oslo Municipality would therefore like to establish a framework agreement for technology connected to distance follow-up.

The welfare technology commitment in Oslo Municipality has an overall aim of increasing safety, coping abilities and activity for patients. In recent years, entities in Oslo Municipality has seen a need for alternative ways to follow-up patients with chronic illnesses, mental disorders, and cancer. There is a need to raise the quality and increase the efficiency involved in the follow-up of these user groups. Oslo Municipality would therefore like to establish a framework agreement for technology connected to distance follow-up.

The Directorate of Health is managing a national testing of distance follow-up with the participation of six municipalities. Selected districts in Oslo Municipality have tested distance follow-up with good results. Based on this, Oslo Municipality would like to increase the use of distance follow-up and is, therefore, establishing a framework agreement that all entities in the municipality can make call-offs on.

The distance follow-up intends to:

• create increased safety, independence, coping abilities, and life quality for patients;

• create increased service capacity for the future.

The technology for distance follow-up can, for example, be; sensors or other medical measuring instruments that actively or passively measure vital/physiological values, applications for documentation, follow-up, administration, etc.

Oslo Municipality has currently defined 8 main functions that we would like the system to cover:

A. Function for digital self-measuring and documentation of the measurements (values and self-reporting).

B. Function that shows the development of the patient's health condition over time ('learning').

C. Function that warns of changes in the patient's health condition ('reaction').

D. Function that contributes to increased self-mastering and an increased ability to implement their own measures.

E Function that reminds the patient to take measurements and notify if they are not done.

E. Function that enables persons outside Oslo Municipality to see the patient's measurements.

G. Function that enables two-way communication with the patient without being physically present.