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SMARTCARE Project: Deploying Integrated Health & Social Services for Independent Living by Older People

NCT03112109 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 2111

Last updated 2018-08-20

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Summary

Against the background of the European Innovation Partnership on Active \& Healthy Ageing, SmartCare aims to define a common set of standard functional specifications for an open ICT platform enabling the delivery of integrated care to older European citizens.

In the context of SmartCare, a total of 23 regions and their key stakeholders will define a comprehensive set of integration building blocks around the challenges of data-sharing, coordination and communication. Nine regions will then deploy integrated health \& social services to combat a range of threats to independent living commonly faced by older people, while the others will prepare for early adoption, possibly in the framework of new ICT PSP projects. In a rigorous evaluation approach, the deployment sites will produce and document much needed evidence on the impact of integrated care, developing a common framework suitable for other regions in Europe. The organisational and legal ramifications of integrated care will be analysed to support long term sustainability and upscaling of the services.

SmartCare services will provide full support to cooperative delivery of care, integrated with self-care and across organisational silos, including essential coordination tools such as shared data access, care pathway design and execution, as well as real time communication support to care teams and multi-organisation access to home platforms. In addition, they will empower all older people according to their mental faculties to take part in effective management of their health, wellness, and chronic conditions, and maintain their independence despite increasing frailty.

The SmartCare services build on advanced ICT already deployed in the pioneer regions, including high penetrations of telecare and telemonitoring home platforms. In SmartCare, these platforms are to be opened to cross-sectorial care teams, improving the ability of older people to better manage their chronic conditions at home and deal with their increasing frailty. System integration will be based, whenever possible, on open standards' multivendor interoperability will be strongly encouraged.

Conditions

  • Frail Elderly Syndrome
  • Congestive Heart Failure
  • Falls Prevention

Interventions

OTHER

'New care'

Frail elderly receiving care within new organisational models delivering integrated healthcare (IHC) supported by ICT infrastructure (electronically shared-care platform) as provided by pilot sites individually.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Him SA

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-03-01
Primary Completion
2017-09-01
Completion
2017-10-01

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