Tired of waiting for “the people at the top” to change something? Here you will find people, tools and projects to get started yourself – with courage, imagination and fun.
Instead we ask: how would we do it if we were starting from scratch today?
Change starts with the people doing the work. PeBeM (Germany's statutory nurse staffing measurement procedure) driven by the works council and staff representatives, front-line expertise put to use – not the other way round.
Decisions voted on in the team – transparent and fair, instead of orders handed down from above.
Solving problems creatively: we build prototypes out of cardboard and Lego before we buy expensive technology. Test fast, fail fast, improve fast.
At nursing hackathons, nurses work in small teams on solutions to real problems from their own working day – first with cardboard and Lego, then with technology. No prior knowledge needed, food and drink free, and the results belong to everyone.
Join the next eventFor €1 a day, an AI keeps developing open-source nursing software – person-centred, open-source, scientifically curious. Submit ideas, bring your knowledge of the law, or simply watch how the experiment unfolds.
View PflegeOSAbsolutely – in fact, you are the most important person in the room. At our nursing hackathons, the understanding of the problem comes from nurses and care workers, not from developers. Ideas are prototyped with cardboard, Lego and paper before anyone writes a line of code. Food and drink are free, and you need no prior knowledge.
PflegeOS is our open experiment: for €1 a day, an AI keeps developing open-source nursing software for inpatient long-term care – person-centred instead of bureaucracy-centred. Anyone can submit ideas, contribute knowledge of the law and of daily practice, or work on the code. Everything is publicly visible at pflegeos.vercel.app.
Nothing. Community meet-ups, hackathons and contributing to open projects such as PflegeOS are free. We fund ourselves through our services for care providers and through grant-funded projects – the community is the heart of what we do, not a business model.
Just send us an informal email – we will add you to the mailing list for events, or work out together where your ideas fit best.
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