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SmartCare project: Pathways for integrated eCare

SmartCare aims to define a common set of standard functional specifications for an open ICT platform enabling the delivery of integrated care to older European citizens. A total of 23 regions and their key stakeholders are defining a comprehensive set of integration building blocks around the challenges of data-sharing, coordination and communication.

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Health ICT Research & Innovation ICT Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing Europe in a changing world - Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies EU countries

date:  09/07/2015

Project:  Joining up ICT and service processes for...

acronym:  SmartCare

See also:  CORDIS

One of the main reasons for the missing link between the services is that historically national health and social care systems have developed in an incremental way, without a coherent vision of how both social care and healthcare systems should interact (Leichsenring, Billings et al. 2014).
 
SmartCare aims to improve this situation by delivering integrated eCare services in the community, joining in a better way health, social and informal care service provision thanks to the support of information and communication technology (ICT); this is also expected to enhance self-care and empowerment of care recipients and their relatives.
 
Disclaimer: the video was produced by the SMARTCARE project and not by the European Commission

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