Kronikgune

Biosistemak (formerly Kronikgune) attends the X International Congress on Digital Health.

By |2023-09-14T09:24:08+02:0014 September 2023|

The congress will be held from 11 to 15 September 2023 in the hybrid format as part of the Basque Country University, UPV-EHU's, summer course program.  The tenth edition of the Digital Health Congress, organized by the Digital Health Association and the Signo Foundation, focuses on advances in Value-Based Digital Health. For five days, experts [...]

El Instituto Biosistemak (antes Kronikgune) forma parte del Comité Científico-Organizador del XII Taller EvaluAES

By |2023-06-29T14:58:04+02:0026 June 2023|

The event took place on 12 May at the Biosistemak headquarters in the Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC) in Barakaldo. The EvaluAES group organized its annual workshop on Health Policy and Service Evaluation Research in the Basque Country. The main objective of this new edition was to promote multidisciplinary exchange between researchers, as well as to [...]

The Department of Health from the Basque Country, BIOEF and Biosistemak (formerly Kronikgune) present the first call of the new European THCS partnership.

By |2023-04-05T14:42:03+02:005 April 2023|

The event took place on 30 March at the BAT Tower in Bilbao. The new European research partnership for Transforming Health and Care Systems of the Future (THCS) aims to contribute to the transition towards more sustainable, efficient, resilient, inclusive, innovative and quality health and care systems focused on and accessible to all people. Biosistemak [...]

The Biosistemak Institute (formerly Kronikgune Institute) attends the Health & Care Cluster meeting.

By |2023-03-13T15:01:03+01:0013 March 2023|

The event, organised by EHTEL, was held in Lisbon, Portugal on 9 and 10 March 2023. The Digital Transformation strategy of the European Union has, among others, a main priority: the creation of common data platforms based on a unified architecture and an established standard. In this framework, the EU-funded OPEN DEI project aims to [...]

Kronikgune will organize the plenary meeting of the European YOUNG50 project in Bilbao.

By |2022-06-21T11:05:55+02:0022 June 2022|

The meeting will be held at Bilbao Exhibition Centre BEC, Kronikgune's headquarters, from June 27 to 28, 2022. This plenary meeting is the first to be held in person since two years ago, after the COVID-19 crisis. The YOUNG50 consortium is meeting at a strategic moment in the project, as the three regions are soon [...]

The European ADLIFE project holds its fourth plenary meeting

By |2022-06-21T12:30:25+02:0010 June 2022|

The meeting was held on June 8 and 9, 2022 in Ostersund, Sweden. The 4th plenary meeting of the ADLIFE project was held in a face-to-face format, which allowed its partners to meet again in situ after the project kick-off meeting held in January 2020 in Bilbao. The meeting brought together 35 researchers and professionals [...]

Kronikgune Institute celebrates the 10th Anniversary Scientific Event

By |2021-12-15T13:37:42+01:0015 December 2021|

The event took place on December 13, 2021 at the BEC (Bilbao Exhibition Centre).   The Kronikgune Health Services Research Institute Association celebrates 10 years of life, 10 years dedicated to research excellence and positioning the Basque Country as a benchmark in health services research. Established by the Department of Health of the Basque Government, Osakidetza- [...]

Kronikgune participates in the 14th European Public Health Conference

By |2021-11-12T08:12:05+01:0012 November 2021|

The event organised by the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) takes place from 10 to 12 November. The main theme of the 14th edition is "The future of public health in a changing world". Experiences and projects related to Covid-19, the social, economic and health impact that this pandemic has had on society, on the [...]

Kronikgune presents a poster of the JADECARE project at the 17th European Congress of the Geriatrics Society.

By |2021-10-18T10:34:11+02:0019 October 2021|

The 17th EuGMS was held in a hybrid format, in Athens and with the option to attend online from October 11th to 13th. The congress program, (https://eugms2021.com/) has been focused on presenting and sharing the latest advances in healthcare, science and research and, also exploring findings on the following topics: nutrition and physical activity to [...]

Kronikgune will moderate a round table and present the JADECARE Joint Action at the VIII International Virtual eHealth Congress.

By |2021-09-03T12:38:14+02:003 September 2021|

The congress will be held in a hybrid format, face-to-face and online, from different locations across Spain from 6 to 10 September 2021. The conference, which is part of the UPV/EHU summer courses, is organised by the Digital Health Association and the Signo Foundation. The conference, which has been held uninterruptedly since 2014, will focus [...]

Kronikgune will participate in the workshop organised by the IN-4-AHA project “How can AHA stakeholders find and share good practices?”

By |2021-07-22T12:51:22+02:0021 July 2021|

The workshop will be held on 23 July at 15hrs and registration is open to anyone interested.  The IN-4-AHA project, funded through the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, aims to promote the scaling up of initiatives emerging from the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) among European stakeholders. It also aims [...]

European ADLIFE project is committed to patient-centered health outcomes.

By |2021-06-10T10:46:48+02:0010 June 2021|

Health systems are transforming towards more integrated and person-centered care through empowerment and shared decision making.  Health systems have begun to implement the new perspective of value-based care.  The evaluation of healthcare services should not be based on the measurement of the services provided, but on the outcomes they achieve, where it is taken into [...]

Kronikgune participates in the XL Conference on Health Economics

By |2021-06-02T08:29:38+02:0028 May 2021|

The conference organised by the Spanish Health Economics Association (AES) has been held since January and will end next June. Under the slogan "Reconciling immediacy and the future in health, social policies and economics", the XL Health Economics Conference is a monthly meeting point for researchers, managers, professionals and, above all, health economists at national [...]

UPRIGHT organises two scientific workshops on the assistance provided to schools in the exceptional situation experienced by COVID-19.

By |2021-08-05T11:02:15+02:0015 April 2021|

The workshops, conducted in an online format, were attended by more than 100 participants from seven European countries.  COVID-19 has resulted in school closures, quarantines and general social distancing measures to cope with the situation. It has also highlighted the importance of learning resilience-based skills. In this sense, schools in general have shown the interest [...]

Kronikgune together with Osakidetza will participate in the annual event on digital health and healthcare in Scotland, DigiFest2020.

By |2020-11-27T11:31:52+01:0027 November 2020|

DigiFest2020 will be held from 1-11 December in an online format. Scotland's largest annual digital health and care event aims to be a space for reflection and learning about digital solutions that deliver better patient care. This year's focus will be on analyzing and learning about digital solutions being implemented in Scotland, UK and internationally [...]

Kronikgune participates in the 20th International Conference on Integrated Care, ICIC2020.

By |2021-03-01T14:48:42+01:0025 November 2020|

On 9, 16, 23 and 30 September, the International Conference on Integrated Care was held in online format. The new edition of the most prestigious International Conference on Integrated Care in Europe brought together more than 1,000 researchers, healthcare professionals and management teams from 80 countries. Over the course of four thematic days, experiences, projects [...]

Kronikgune leads the JADECARE Joint Action at European level with the participation of 48 organisations from 17 European countries.

By |2020-11-06T15:17:05+01:005 November 2020|

From 3 to 5 November, the kick off meeting of  JADECARE Joint Action was held telematically. María Aguirre, Director of Health Research and Innovation of the Department of Health, welcomed the attendees of the event together with Pilar Aparicio, Director General Directorate of Public Health of the Ministry of Health, and Donata Meroni, Head of [...]

UPRIGHT project celebrates its 5th General Assembly

By |2021-03-01T15:52:56+01:0030 October 2020|

On 6 and 7 October, all members of the consortium met telematically due to the travel restrictions established in the countries by COVID-19. The fifth plenary meeting has served to review the activities carried out in recent months and to identify, discuss, agree and plan the most immediate actions in order to meet the commitments [...]

Kronikgune presents the ADLIFE and C3-Cloud projects at the online congress “Digital Health: in times of Covid”.

By |2021-03-17T13:13:28+01:0025 September 2020|

From 7 to 11 September, the new edition of the congress was held in two modalities, online and in person, in the room set up in the Miramar Palace in Donostia - San Sebastián with limited seating capacity. The new edition of the congress "Digital Health: in times of Covid" organized by the UPV/EHU and [...]

Second plenary meeting for the Gatekeeper European project

By |2020-09-03T07:06:36+02:0019 June 2020|

The meeting was held online on 26 and 27 May 2020 due to the travel restrictions established in European countries because of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Gatekeeper seeks to create an open, standard-based, interoperable, and safe platform offering innovative solutions and a broad selection of digital health services that allow for the improvement of early [...]

Second General Meeting of the YOUNG50 European Project

By |2020-05-15T10:13:34+02:0030 April 2020|

The general assembly was meant to be held in Bilbao. However, due to the European travel restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, this meeting was held on 2 April online by videoconference.  YOUNG50 seeks to promote the prevention of CVD and detect the cardiovascular risk of people over 50 years of age. The project framework [...]

Bilbao hosts the 4th plenary assembly of the UPRIGHT project

By |2020-03-16T12:13:22+01:0016 March 2020|

Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC) in Barakaldo, the Kronikgune headquarters, hosted the meeting of the nine project partners on 4 and 5 February.   At this meeting the attendees undertook a complete revision of the tasks and milestones of the past months and shared the experiences of each of this intervention’s pilots. UPRIGHT (Universal Preventive Resilience [...]

Kronikgune attends the closing conference of the ADVANTAGE Joint Action

By |2020-01-16T11:54:04+01:0013 December 2019|

The event was held on 27 November in Brussels. For three years the ADVANTAGE JA (Joint Action) has worked on establishing a shared European framework to face the challenge of frailty, one of the main factors associated to disability in the elderly population. The establishment of a shared framework of understanding strives to create a [...]

The Scirocco Exchange Project holds several workshops at the 12th European Public Health Conference

By |2020-01-16T11:41:50+01:004 December 2019|

From 20 to 23 November 2019, Marseille (France) hosted the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) conference. This 12the edition was held under the title: “Building bridges for solidarity and public health” and gathered the European professional and scientific Public Health community. Public health professionals are a very diverse community and building bridges with professionals from [...]

The YOUNG50 European project holds its first general meeting

By |2020-01-16T12:04:03+01:0019 November 2019|

The meeting was held on 6 and 7 November in the city of Padua, Italy. YOUNG50 is a project co-funded by the Third EU Health Programme. It seeks to extend the good practices CARDIO50 for prevention, which was implemented in Italy, to regions in Lithuania, Romania and Luxembourg. This study started at the beginning of [...]

Kronikgune starts cooperation in a new European project: Gatekeeper

By |2020-01-16T12:56:16+01:008 November 2019|

The start-up meeting took place in Madrid from 23 to 25 October. The Gatekeeper consortium includes 43 partners from 13 Member States, featuring technological companies, research institutes or universities, healthcare suppliers and European and international networks focusing on technological innovation. Kronikgune, Osakidetza and Biocruces Bizkaia will represent the Basque Country. Funded by the Horizon 2020 [...]

Kronikgune participates in the 37th Congress of the SECA-Spanish Care Quality Society

By |2020-01-16T13:06:26+01:004 November 2019|

From 23 to 25 October, the Kursaal Congress Centre in Donostia-San Sebastián was the venue of the National Congress held by AKEB, the Basque Association for Care Quality. The motto for this edition was “Generating value in healthcare. Challenges and commitments”, which sought to share the work values in care quality, improvement processes and security [...]

The SCIROCCO Exchange project holds its first general meeting

By |2020-01-16T13:20:51+01:0031 October 2019|

The meeting was held on 23 and 24 October in Kôsice, Slovakia. SCIROCCO Exchange aims to support health and social care authorities to adopt and scale-up integrated care within their healthcare systems. Fourteen partners from nine European regions are the members of this consortium (Germany, Flanders, Basque Country, Slovakia, Slovenia, Vilna, Poland and Puglia), which [...]

The UPRIGHT project participates in the dissemination event of the BOOST European project

By |2020-01-16T14:05:06+01:0029 October 2019|

The event took place on 24 October at the facilities of EUREGHA - European Regional and Local Health Authorities in Brussels. The goal of this session was to debate how to contribute to the “Welfare economy” by developing the social and emotional abilities of European children and teenagers, through the support of the schools and [...]

Kronikgune attends the third ADVANTAGE JA Spanish partner meeting with Spanish stakeholders

By |2020-01-16T14:18:05+01:0015 October 2019|

The meeting took place on 1 October at Fundación Cajasol in Seville. ADVANTAGE JA (Joint Action) aims to prevent frailty. 34 institutions are taking part in this project which is coordinated by Spain, specifically by Getafe University Hospital run by Madrid's Public Health Service. A common European framework has been established in the project in [...]