Digital Health and Care Congress 2017. Embedding technology in health and social care.

NHS England's Next steps on the five year forward view outlines the plan to harness technology and innovation over the next two years but what's really happening on the ground? Join us at this two-day event to hear the latest policy updates and learn from case studies showcasing best practice from around the country.

Evaluation of integrated care services in Catalonia: population-based and service-based real-life deployment protocols.

Comprehensive assessment of integrated care deployment constitutes a major challenge to ensure quality, sustainability and transferability of both healthcare policies and services in the transition toward a coordinated service delivery scenario. To this end, the manuscript articulates four different protocols aiming at assessing large-scale implementation of integrated care, which are being developed within the umbrella of the regional project Nextcare (2016-2019), undertaken to foster innovation in technologically-supported services for chronic multimorbid patients in Catalonia (ES) (7.5 M inhabitants). Whereas one of the assessment protocols is designed to evaluate population-based deployment of care coordination at regional level during the period 2011-2017, the other three are service-based protocols addressing: i) Home hospitalization; ii) Prehabilitation for major surgery; and, iii) Community-based interventions for frail elderly chronic patients. All three services have demonstrated efficacy and potential for health value generation.

GPCC at SASUF 2020: Person-centred eHealth in healthcare

The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) is providing this workshop "Person-centred eHealth in healthcare", on 25 November 2020, within the South Africa - Sweden University Forum 2020 event, online.

The goal with this event is to discuss innovative strategies to integrate person-centred care in healthcare. These discussions about person-centred care in Sweden and South Africa intend to give new perspectives regarding new technologies that have the purpose to contribute to the development of person-centred care approaches. *This session will be recorded*.

Programme

(Central European Time)

9:00-9:05, Welcome, Stefan Nilsson, Associate professor & Ensa Johnson, PhD

9:05-9:20, Biomarkers as evaluation of a digital tool – Is it possible?, Jonas Bergquist, Professor

9:20-9:35,South African children with cancer sharing their lived experience in coping with their illness and treatment, Karen van Zijl, PhD & CHOC social workers

9:35-9:50, Person-centred care and Universal Design as theoretical ...

Digital tools as promoters for person-centered care practices in chronic care? Healthcare professionals’ experiences from rheumatology care

Person-centered care (PCC) emphasize the importance of supporting individuals’ involvement in care provided and self-care. PCC has become more important in chronic care as the number of people living with chronic conditions is increasing due to the demographic changes. Digital tools have potential to support interaction between patients and healthcare providers, but empirical examples of how to achieve PCC in chronic care and the role of digital tools in this process is limited. The aim of this study was to investigate strategies to achieve PCC used by the healthcare professionals at an outpatient Rheumatology clinic (RC), the strategies’ relation to digital tools, and the perceived impact of the strategies on healthcare professionals and patients.