What is the name of your organization?
Humanity & Inclusion
What is the name of your solution?
OpenTeleRehab
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Open Source, Multidisciplinary, Telerehabilitation software connecting professionals and patients to improve access to rehabilitation services
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Lyon, France
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
France
What type of organization is your solution team?
Nonprofit
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What specific problem are you solving?
According to the WHO, globally, an estimated 2.4 billion people are currently living with a health condition that may benefit from rehabilitation. This represents one in three people worldwide.
Currently, the need for rehabilitation is largely unmet. In some low-income countries, more than 50% of people do not receive the rehabilitation services they require.
The need for rehabilitation worldwide is predicted to increase due to changes in the health and characteristics of the population.
For example, people are living longer, but with more chronic disease and disability. Emergencies including conflicts, disasters and outbreaks create enormous surges in rehabilitation needs while also disrupting services and have the greatest impact on the most vulnerable populations and the weakest health systems.
The current rehabilitation service delivery model - operating within a fixed framework – is not meeting and will not meet those needs.
What is your solution?
OpenTeleRehab is an open-source, multidisciplinary telerehabilitation software recognized as a Digital Public Good. It enhances access to rehabilitation services, supporting universal health coverage by facilitating discharge, care transitions, and community-based follow-ups.
OpenTeleRehab consists of three interconnected modules:
- Admin Web Portal: Enables organizational administrators to manage therapists and provide content for treatment plans. It supports bulk uploads and role-based access (Global, Country, and Service Admins).
- Therapist Web Portal: Allows therapists to create and manage treatment plans, including exercises, education materials, and questionnaires. Therapists can track patient progress (adherence, pain) and communicate via messages, voice, and video calls.
- Patient Mobile App: Provides patients with personalized treatment plans, including exercises, education, and questionnaires. It also supports appointment management and direct therapist communication.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Our solution serves children, adult or older person to become as independent as possible in everyday activities and enables participation in education, work, recreation and meaningful life roles such as taking care of family. Most particularly, it supports underserved communities with the greatest unmet rehabilitation needs – including persons with disabilities, refugees, internally displaced persons, rural communities, and survivors of conflict and disasters who would otherwise have limited or no access to rehabilitation services due to financial, attitudinal and geographical barriers.
Recent scientific evidence suggest that telerehabilitation would have at least similar effects to traditional rehabilitation on long-term pain, on short and long-term physical function and on short and long-term quality of life (Dias et al. 2021). The advantages of telerehabilitation are numerous, such as limiting travel, reducing health care related costs, bringing expertise closer to users in the community and promote continuity of care, enhance data collection, reporting, analysis and dissemination of rehabilitation programs - therfore contributing to Health System Strengthening and Universal Health Coverage.
Telerehabilitation can particularly helpful in contexts where rehabilitation is not available at primary health care level or in the aftermath of emergencies or disasters.
