CONNECARE, a care system for chronic care management
The ambition of the CONNECARE (Personalised Connected Care for Complex Chronic Patients) consortium is to co-design, develop, deploy, and evaluate a novel smart, adaptive integrated care system for chronic care management. This will save European healthcare organisations huge sums whilst improving patient outcomes.
Based on the concept of 4P medicine, CONNECARE will provide decision support for the adaptive management of personalised clinical pathways and will deliver tools to monitor patients’ activities and status, thus empowering them and providing them with recommendations to self-manage their condition, resulting in substantial improvements in their quality of life.
Objectives
- To implement and evaluate a new organisational model for Integrated Care;
- To co-design, develop and field test ICT tools for the adaptive case management of personalised clinical pathways;
- To implement a proactive and preventive care approach;
- To co-design, develop and field test an integrated solution to connect patients, carers and care professionals;
- To empower patients to take care of themselves, through a self-management approach;
- To co-design & develop an automatic alerting system based on the remote monitoring of patients;
- To distill and disseminate evidence, guidelines and best practices from clinical trials
An iterative patient-centred co-design process will ensure a progressive refinement of model and tools, providing foundations for adoption and transferability. In addition, clinical trials will be held in three leading-light regions in integrated care uptake –Catalonia, Israel, and Groningen – to evidence improvements in outcomes and efficiency. Consortium members are active in the EIP AHA B3 Action Group; transfer of results to relevant stakeholders across Europe, beyond the stakeholders in CONNECARE, is guaranteed.
The CONNECARE consortium is composed of nine partners from six European countries (Spain, Israel, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom). The CONNECARE consortium contains all the necessary partners to ensure its success. The project had a budget of 4,964,189 euros and was carried out, til September 2019, in Catalonia, Israel and Groningen.
COORDINATOR: EURECAT Technology Centre (For more information, visit: http://www.eurecat.org)
Participants
- Academisch Ziekenhuis Groningen · Netherlands (For more information, visit www.umcg.nl)
- Advanced Digital Innovation UK Ltd · United Kingdom (For more information, visit www.adi-uk.com)
- Assuta Medical Centers · Israel (For more information, visit www.assuta.co.il)
- Consorci Institut D’Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer · Spain (For more information, visit www.idibaps.org or www.hospitalclinic.org)
- eWave · Israel (For more information, visit www.ewave.co.il)
- Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida Fundació Dr Pifarré · Spain (For more information, visit www.irblleida.org)
- Technische Universität München · Germany (For more information, visit www.tum.de)
- Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia · Italy (For more information, visit www.unimore.it)