Telemonitoring in perinatal care

This project aims to gain insight into the feasibility, acceptability and sustainable implementation of telemonitoring within perinatal care, taking pregnancy as the starting point for the first 1,000 days. Home CTG monitoring is used as a specific use case in this study. The insights gained from this will then be interpreted more broadly to assess how telemonitoring – including in other applications such as blood pressure and blood glucose monitoring – can contribute to more accessible, patient-centred and high-quality care for pregnant women.

The research questions are structured according to the following work packages:

WP1 – Evidence and good practices

What evidence and good practices exist regarding telemonitoring in perinatal care, and what implementation factors and working models can be derived from these for the application and upscaling of, amongst other things, home CTG monitoring?

WP2 – Qualitative research

What are the attitudes of pregnant women and healthcare providers towards telemonitoring in perinatal care, and which factors (barriers and facilitators) influence its acceptance, trust and implementation, including the impact on healthcare organisation, roles, responsibilities and work processes?