Supporting Patients and Healthcare Professionals in Planning, Reporting and Monitoring Activities
The AktivPlan app is a digital health solution designed to support healthcare professionals and patients in planning physical activities. It is funded via the LBI-DHP core budget and implemented in collaboration with Alphaport OG.
Visit the AktivPlan project website
AktivPlan mobile app interface components
Overview
The AktivPlan app is designed to support healthcare professionals and patients in planning activities. It can be used both as a web application as well as a mobile application on the cell phone. AktivPlan is used by health professionals together with their patients, allowing them to jointly set up, monitor, and regularly review a personalized heart-healthy physical activity plan.
The app has been specifically designed to support shared decision-making between healthcare professionals and patients, which can have a positive impact on motivation, adherence, and sustainability regarding long-term physical activity goals.
The app is a key component in multiple projects, including:
The AKTIV-CaRE pilot clinical trial following MDR (NCT06025526)
KlimaFIT project on climate change and active mobility
Prehab2Rehab project on prehabilitation to rehabilitation pathways
Key Features
Patients are involved and guided by expert health professionals in setting up a personalized heart-healthy physical activity plan. Patients select exercises and activities they enjoy and define personally meaningful goals. Through the app interface, patients can conveniently:
Access their plan on a calendar
Log activities
Change activities
Review their performance
Access a library of resources such as exercise videos
At follow-up appointments with their health professional, patients can review their documented performance and discuss the plan going forward.
Health professionals are supported in providing personalized physical activity prescription and ongoing review and optimization of their patients’ performance. Through the web interface, health professionals can conveniently view patients’ activity logs. Activity logs can be exported and printed, to be filed in medical records, to provide documentation to health insurances, and to be used for joint review and further planning with patients at follow-up appointments.
Video Demonstration
The following video provides a short explanation of the AktivPlan app (only available in German):
Development Partners
The development of the AktivPlan app was made possible by a COVID-19 related grant from the Open Innovation in Science Center of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (CODIS). The implementation took place in cooperation with:
For any further questions, please contact aktivplan.dhp@dhp.lbg.ac.at
References
Wurhofer, D., Neunteufel, J., Strumegger, E.-M., Höppchen, I., Mayr, B., Egger, A., Sareban, M., Reich, B., Neudorfer, M., Niebauer, J., Smeddinck, J. D., & Kulnik, S. T. (2024). Investigating shared decision-making during the use of a digital health tool for physical activity planning in cardiac rehabilitation. Frontiers in Digital Health, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1324488