AINCRA Assessment: Online Tool for Assessing the AI Maturity of Organizations in the Care Sector

The AI-Nursing-Care-Readiness-Assessment (AINCRA) is a free online tool designed to help those responsible for AI projects in care facilities and hospitals systematically assess and further develop the prerequisites for the successful implementation of artificial intelligence. The tool supports the structured preparation of AI projects, helps identify challenges at an early stage and facillitates the introduction of innovative AI solutions into care practice.

AINCRA comprises five action dimensions with a total of 69 attributes. Using a five-level maturity model, organizations can assess their current level of development, identify areas for improvement and derive targeted measures to strengthen their AI readiness. The tool is suitable for both self-assessment and collaborative reflection within interdisciplinary project teams and can be applied repeatedly throughout different phases of an AI project.

AINCRA accompanies initiatives for the use of AI throughout the entire project lifecycle, from planning and implementation to evaluation. Its aim is to make key success factors visible at an early stage and to enable structured reflection on technical, organizational, clinical and ethical aspects. AINCRA is based on the scientific findings of the project Process Development and Support for the Use of AI in Care (ProKIP). ProKIP was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research under the funding initiative “Making Repositories and AI Systems Usable in Everyday Nursing Care.“

The project involved the team led by ECDF Professor and executive board member Daniel Fürstenau, Professor of Business Administration with a focus on IT Management and Digital Transformation at Freie Universität Berlin, and his research group at the Institute of Medical Informatics (IMI) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP) at the University of Bremen (team led by Prof. Karin Wolf-Ostermann); the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Bremen (team led by Dr. Dagmar Borchers); the Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT, team led by ECDF Professor Felix Biessmann); the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG, Dr. Jörg Pohle); and the Association for Digitalization in the Social Economy vediso e.V. (team led by Dr. Miriam Wolf).