Access the Library of Technology in Children's Palliative Care
Announcing Launch of Library
Global Treehouse is pleased to announce the library of technology in children’s palliative care, an open-access resource designed to accelerate and scale human-centred care around the globe. This release is an exciting step towards better harnessing technology to ensure the best possible care for seriously ill children and their families.
Mapping the Future of Care
This library directly contributes to our goal of creating new pathways for practitioners to access and learn about technology in the field of palliative care for children and their families. We aim to bridge the gap between those developing technology and AI tools and those delivering care, ensuring that the innovations truly serve care providers and families with quality and compassion.
The resource lists technologies currently being tested and used in children’s palliative care. While some resources come from mainstream paediatric care, this project is focused on highlighting technologies tailored to the unique needs of seriously ill children and their families. The library aims to:
Chart the tech currently used within children’s palliative care globally
Spotlight ideas for application or adaptation in different contexts or new novel innovations
Spark insights about what’s missing, so we can collectively have a shared base of knowledge.
Understanding the Library
This resource gathers technology designed for use with children, families and healthcare staff. The range of resources is broad, including essential, well-established medical technologies and new, iPad-based play applications. These technologies support a variety of uses, such as symptom monitoring, telehealth, accessibility and play therapy, to name a few.
For each technology, the library provides useful information, including:
Technology category
Intended use/need met
Target users (children, family caregivers, professionals) and user environment (home, hospital, community setting)
Developer and geography of origin, along with geography of use
If applicable:
World Health Organisation (WHO) classification
Endpoints measured and impact evaluated
Relevance considerations
Links to references or case studies
Join Us in Growing This Resource
This initial scan is just the beginning of what we hope will be an evolving resource for our global community. We invite users to shape its success by contributing to our shared knowledge. If you know of a technology, medical device or digital tool in children’s palliative care that is currently missing from this library, we are eager to review and potentially add it.