Home care to improve conditions of patients life.

Polycare project

Overview & Objectives

The Polycare project aims to develop and test and integrated care model supported by advanced ICT systems. These systems and services will allow patients in acute phases to be monitored from home. This methodology strives to achieve the two main objectives:

Enhance quality of life and care for patients.
Increase sustainability of health and social care systems.

Better conditions of life and care for patients as well as sustainability improvement for health and social care systems.

News

Polycare topics related news

January 19, 2018

Meeting for the development of the POLYCARE ICT platform and intellectual property agreements among partners

During the past 10th and 11th of January the POLYCARE team met face to face in order to progress with the different on-going WP tasks. It was a very fruitful meeting full of discussions being the focus the refinement of the POLYCARE ICT platform and the IPR agreements among partners in the context of the POLYCARE exploitation activities. Read

November 14, 2017

POLYCARE example of a Success Story in the integration Socio-economics Sciences and Humanities for the Societal Challenge 1, Health, demographic trends and well-being

Horizon 2020 considers the socio-economic sciences and humanities (SSH) as cross-cutting and integrated in all the priorities and objectives of the Programme. The Societal Challenge 1, Health, demographic trends and well-being, involves SSH research in order to tackle the societal challenges and to provide the most suitable impact for society. María Jesús Cancer (POLYCARE project coordinator) and Silvia Adillón (SSH POLYCARE partner) conducted an interview in which most significant SSH project aspects were highlighted, putting the focus on the value and factors that are making possible in POLYCARE to facilitate SSH integration in the field of the Health, demographic trends and well-being societal challenge. Do you want to get more details? Read the full interview here! Read

October 27, 2017

Comarca de Somontano de Barbastro presented Polycare at the XI Jornadas Técnicas de Centros de Servicios Sociales

Comarca de Somontano de Barbastro presented Polycare at the XI Jornadas Técnicas de Centros de Servicios Sociales del IASS in Orihuela del Tremedal (Teruel). It is an annual technical conference for discussion between professionals of the Social Services Centers of Aragon. Read

Pilot
Sites

The initial situation

Bonn

(Germanny)

Pays Couserans

(France)

Aragón

(Spain)

The Region: Aragón

The Area: Barbastro healthcare area

The Organizations: SALUD and Comarca del Somontano

The Aragón (Spain)
site has been working on a sustainable integrated care business model for 6 years now. There is a strong technological background and well established infrastructure. However in Aragón, home hospitalization is a new concept for which there is growing interest across the entire Aragonese region.