1. AssistData
Assistive Technology Data - Denmark
MWC, Barcelona 02-03-2023

2. Danish Authority of Social Services and Housing
AssistData
• Information about > 38,000 assistive products available on the Danish
market
• Information provided by > 1,300 suppliers
• Started in 1989 – internet application from 2000 – online data collection
since 2003
• Data available at:
o The primary website/search engine (AssistData)
o EASTIN (Multilingual cross platform search engine)
o Web services (used in case & stock management systems)
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3. Danish Authority of Social Services and Housing
AssistData
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4. Danish Authority of Social Services and Housing
AssistData
EASTIN
• With data from AssistData
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5. Danish Authority of Social Services and Housing
Provision of assistive products in Denmark
98 municipalities
• Responsible for home care and the provision of
assistive products for daily life
• Assistive products are provided as a loan
🡺 returned when no longer needed
🡺 80-90 local authority assistive products warehouses
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6. Danish Authority of Social Services and Housing
Local authority assistive products warehouses
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Procurement
and
purchase
Registration
and storage
Assessment
and handout
After use:
Cleaning/
repairing
Ready for
reuse or
discarding

7. Danish Authority of Social Services and Housing
AssistData’s support of the local warehouses
Procurement and purchase
• Warehouses are involved in the public procurement
procedures
o AssistData supports with requirement specification templates in 27
product areas, e.g. manual wheelchairs, rollators
o An AssistData web tool for requirement specification is under
development
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Procurement
and purchase
Registration
and storage
Assessment
and handout
After use:
Cleaning/
repairing
Ready for
reuse or
discarding

8. Danish Authority of Social Services and Housing
AssistData’s support of the local warehouses
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Procurement
and purchase
Registration
and storage
Assessment
and handout
After use:
Cleaning/
repairing
Ready for
reuse or
discarding
Procurement and purchase
• 27 requirement specification templates

9. Danish Authority of Social Services and Housing
AssistData’s support of the local warehouses
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Procurement
and purchase
Registration
and storage
Assessment
and handout
After use:
Cleaning/
repairing
Ready for
reuse or
discarding
Procurement and purchase
• Web tool for requirement specification (Proto)

10. Danish Authority of Social Services and Housing
AssistData’s support of the local warehouses
Registration and storage
• Case & stock management systems used at the local
warehouses
o AssistData’s product catalogue included via a web service
o New/repaired/cleaned products are item coded/registered as “In
stock” (ID from AssistData used as the key to AssistData catalogue
information)
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Procurement
and purchase
Registration
and storage
Assessment
and handout
After use:
Cleaning/
repairing
Ready for
reuse or
discarding

11. Danish Authority of Social Services and Housing
AssistData’s support of the local warehouses
Assessment and handout
• Case manager (occupational therapist) order the
appropriate assistive product
o Find appropriate assistive product for end user - using search &
filtering options in the
AssistData interface
Case & Stock management system
o Adding the loan to the citizen’s case file
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Procurement
and purchase
Registration
and storage
Assessment
and handout
After use:
Cleaning/
repairing
Ready for
reuse or
discarding

12. Danish Authority of Social Services and Housing
AssistData’s support of the local warehouses
Assessment and handout
• Registering the loan in the citizen’s case file
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Procurement
and purchase
Registration
and storage
Assessment
and handout
After use:
Cleaning/
repairing
Ready for
reuse or
discarding

13. Danish Authority of Social Services and Housing
AssistData
Assistive Technology Data – Denmark - https://assistdata.dk/en
Contact
Thomas Lyhne
Senior consultant
Mobile: +45 41 74 00 15
tly@socialstyrelsen.dk
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