Authors:
H. Schonenberg
1
;
S. Pauws
1
;
C. Bescos
2
;
C. Westerteicher
2
;
C. Maramis
3
;
D. Filos
3
;
I. Chouvarda
3
;
N. Maglaveras
3
;
J. G. Cleland
4
and
J. Roca
5
Affiliations:
1
Philips Research Laboratories, Netherlands
;
2
Philips Telehealth Europe, Germany
;
3
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
;
4
University of Hull, United Kingdom
;
5
Institut d’Investigacions Biom`ediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Spain
Keyword(s):
Telehealth, Care Coordination, Chronic Illness, Regional Evaluation, Best Practices.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Databases and Datawarehousing
;
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
;
Health Information Systems
;
Healthcare Management Systems
;
Home Care & Health Networks
;
Practice-based Research Methods for Healthcare IT
;
Telemedicine
Abstract:
Chronic conditions are growing to pandemic proportions. There is evidence that chronic conditions may be
managed successfully using telehealth, but this is not leading to large scale deployment. Organisational and
structural changes are needed to progress from pilots to real implementations that are integrated in the care
routines. The ACT project goes beyond the trial setting to assess programs implementing care coordination
(CC) and telehealth (TH) in different EU regions. The aim is to identify best practice organisational and
structural processes supporting integration and implementation of telehealth in a care coordination context
for routine management of patients with long-term medical conditions. In this report we describe the frame-
work of indicators for CC&TH outcomes and drivers that define data elements collected during the project.
The evaluation engine is responsible for capturing, monitoring and evaluating CC&TH deployment, using
collected data. The evaluation results
contribute to the “best practice cookbook” that will facilitate CC&TH
deployment at scale. This report also shares what we have learned from a data transfer test case.
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