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

June 15, 2017

POLYCARE has been present in the II Hackathon Nacional de Salud event

POLYCARE has been present in the II Hackathon Nacional de Salud event – sponsored by everis – that was held during the past 9th to 10th of June in Madrid. The goal of this event, organized by the Association of Researches in eHealth (AIES) and COM SALUD, is that programmers and designers of mobile applications respond to the needs of health professionals, patients and public in general developing health applications and games promoting health educations, adherence to treatment, health management, etc. The participants has complemented experiences with the purpose of developing concrete solutions within and pedagogical environment promoting the collaborative work focused to the resolution of problems improving the motivation of the participants. Read

June 02, 2017

Comarca de Somontano presented Polycare at the International Federation of Social Workers European Conference 2017

Comarca de Somontano presented Polycare at the International Federation of Social Workers European Conference 2017 in Reykjavik, Iceland, May 28th – 30th 2017. The theme of the conference launched a stimulating professional discussion on how social work is evolving with new groups being marginalized in Europe in the changing society of the 21st Century and how we can promote sustainable communities. Over these days it has been examined, using different experiences, studies and reflections, how social work can, among many other things, improve the processes for transferring research and innovation and apply them to improving knowledge of social reality and in professional and organizational practices. Read

May 08, 2017

Everis presented POLYCARE at Healthio

During the past 3rd to 5th of May Everis presented POLYCARE at Healthio event in Barcelona (Spain). In its first edition, Healthio put together patients, Health professionals, innovation and e-health systems. Everis attracted the interest on the POLCYARE project, main objectives and expected results to a broad audience including doctors, nurses, World Health Organization (WHO), Pharmacy industry and many others which were looking for innovative solutions on two main areas: Chronic patients quality of life and healthy ageing. It constituted a great opportunity to present the POLYCARE, interchange opinions with health professionals and get their feedback on concrete aspects of the solution, specially while addressing elderly people with chronic diseases by means of tablets and applications. 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.