During the past week, everis had the opportunity to attend to the International conference on Integrated Care (ICIC’18) and participate by presenting a workshop called “Enhancing the value of care to people - How innovations meet end users’ needs in integrated care contexts”. The event had a strong focus on improving the QoL of the several stakeholders concerned to integrated care and made a strong emphasis on patients and how integrated care systems, methodologies and technologies should drive efforts to really satisfy and provide the required support to chronic patients. Patient empowerment, collaboration among stakeholders and cost effectiveness of worldwide integrated health care were identified as key aspects to improve current health and social welfare state. Also, technology was highlighted as a relevant driver in support of integrated care to underpin professionals’ daily work and relieve patients and carers stress and pain. Everis, lead one of the workshops sessions in which together with other 4 projects of the same H2020 call (ICT4Life, Connecare, CAREGIVERSPRO and ProACT) we had the chance to share and explain commonalities and key findings across 4 dimensions of the integrated care: (1) The different approaches followed by the projects while enhancing value of care to people, (2) Professionals’ and carers’ experience while utilizing health ICT-AT as well as feedback provided by patients, (3) Methodologies and processes proposed to improve integrated care system efficiency and health outcomes and (4) Findings on the cost efficiency of integrated care ICT-AT based solutions and their exploitation. Over 50 participants interacted with us during the workshop and ICIC organization recognized the good work and effort we did to pinpoint and discuss around these 4 dimensions. Most relevant insights and conclusions can be found here. The event brought also the opportunity to meet with representatives from the other projects and discuss F2F on the main challenges we are facing in the short-term and we plan to continue this collaboration to identify innovative opportunities and drivers to improve current QoL provisioning. Read

On Wednesday it started the International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC’18) in which everis is representing POLYCARE project. Everis will be on Friday leading a workshop in which five H2020 European projects (POLYCARE, CONNECARE, ICT4Life, ProAct and CareGiversPro) will be discussing around integrated care dimensions from the point of view of each of the projects. Stay tunned!! Read