The Royal Society of Medicine in London played host to the second General Assembly meeting of the CONNECARE consortium. The meeting was held June 26-28 and attended by participants from each member organisation. The meeting was a great success and gave the participants a chance to discuss the progress of the project, and plans for [...]
The Global Conference on Integrated Care (GCIC) 2018 is an international conference that will bring together clinicians, health and social care professionals and practitioners, and policymakers from around the world to share knowledge, experiences, ideas and innovations in integrated care delivery. The conference will be used as a platform to look beyond the immediate horizon, [...]
The CONNECARE consortium is pleased to announce that it is now working closely with the Polycare Project, another European-funded project. POLYCARE is a H2020 European project, and has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement Nº 690367. The project proposal was submitted to the PHC-25 Advanced ICT [...]
IoT and Smart Healthcare The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control will be held in Calabria, Southern Italy. This conference will provide a remarkable opportunity for the academic and industrial communities to address new challenges and share solutions, and discuss future research directions. It will feature plenary speeches, panel sessions, tutorials, workshops, [...]
The CONNECARE consortium is pleased to announce that it has developed strong links with another European Project, ICT4Life. As with CONNECARE, ICT4Life works to improve quality of life of patients affected by chronic conditions by assisting their independent living at home. More About ICT4Life ICT4Life is a three-year project financed by Horizon 2020, the EU [...]
Driving Integrated Care with Data from Health and Social Care The 8th annual EHTEL Symposium convenes the European eHealth community - health policy leaders, strategic EU projects and initiatives, NGOs, industrialists and more stakeholders. The 2017 Event is inspired by EHTEL's championship for the Blueprint on Digital Transformation of Health and Care for the Ageing [...]
From Connected Care to Integrated Care – A Work in Progress 'One of the most problematic interfaces is the hospital-community care interface. Older persons discharged from acute care hospitals are at risk of 30-day hospital readmission and death. "Integrated Care" purports to address the problem, although, to date, a comprehensive solution has not yet been [...]
Avançar en el concepte d’atenció integral (AI) va ser el principal objectiu de la setzena Conferència Internacional d'Atenció Integrada que va reunir, del 23 al 25 de maig a Barcelona, més de mil assistents provinents d'una cinquantena de països d'arreu del món. La conferència, organitzada per la International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), va ser [...]
Investigadors del Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya (Eurecat) formaran part del projecte mèdic europeu 'CONNECARE', que té per objectiu desenvolupar un sistema intel·ligent i personalitzat en el tracte de pa cients amb malalties cròniques complexes. Amb la finalitat de millorar l'estat i l'atenció d'aquests pacients, que calculen suposen el 70% de la despesa sanitària, el programa [...]
El centro tecnológico Eurecat coordina el proyecto europeo Connecare, una investigación para mejorar la atención a los enfermos crónicos, que suponen el 70 % de gasto sanitario, con medicina preventiva y personalizada. El proyecto, en el que participan el Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas August Pi i Sunyer y el Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Lleida, [...]
