Conference: ‘Health Research in the Basque Country’ The Basque Country strengthens its leadership in health research and highlights the importance of networking to transform healthcare. Around 200 people, including institutional representatives, researchers, healthcare professionals and patients, gathered at the BAT Tower in Bilbao for the conference ‘Health Research in the Basque Country: Consensus, Networking, [...]
The course was held on 17th July 2024 at the Miramar Palace in Donostia - San Sebastian.This course, entitled 'Economic evaluation to support decision-making in health', was part of the programme of summer courses organised every year by the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, UPV-EHU. The programme aimed to raise awareness of [...]
This collaboration managed by Kronikgune has contributed to the transfer of knowledge from Euskadi to the European regions. A delegation of the health system of the Czech Republic composed by representatives of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, including the responsible of the WHO Office in the Czech Republic, representatives of the Regional [...]
The workshop organised to support the Czech Republic was held on 20 January 2022. mHealth Hub is a project that aims to compile real experiences of public health initiatives supported by mobile devices that involve the integration of these technologies into national or regional health systems in certain EU member states (https://mhealth-hub.org/#home). With the support [...]
Osakidetza is one of seven health systems that will deploy ADLIFE digital solutions to improve the quality of life of patients with advanced chronic diseases. ADLIFE, Integrated personalized care for patients with advanced chronic diseases to improve health and quality of life, is a European research project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon [...]
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 [...]
The conference will be held on 29th June from 12 to 14:30hrs in Galdakao, at the headquarters of Hospital Universitario Galdakao. The conference is organised by the Asociación Vasca para la Calidad Asistencial - Asistentzi Kalitaterako Euskal Batzordea (AKEB), a non-profit association created in 2011 with the aim of promoting the culture of continuous improvement [...]
In 2019, the Basque Country and Scotland regions were awarded Reference Sites with four stars and also a special “Recognition of Excellence” by the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA). This partnership has contributed to transfer knowledge on digital solutions for Active and Healthy Ageing between both regions since 2012. [...]
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 [...]
The online workshop was held on 8th of October and was attended by more than 30 people from the Basque Health ecosystem. Active and healthy ageing is the process of developing and maintaining a level of functional capacity that makes it possible to achieve well-being in old age. Functional capacity is understood as the set [...]
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 [...]
The meeting was held in person from 26 to 28 February at Milton Keynes, Great Britain, and online for those members who could not attend due to travel issues generated by COVID19. The workshop was structured in different parallel sessions where they addressed issues and themes related to the development of the platform, design of [...]
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 [...]
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 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 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 [...]
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 [...]
This award recognises the coordination and consistency of Basque institutions and organisations when meeting people's needs and improving their quality of life. The European Commission has given the Basque Country the highest possible rating, four stars, and the “Seal of Excellence” as a Reference Site for their outstanding work fostering regional innovation and active and [...]
Palacio Miramar in Donostia - San Sebastián hosted the last edition of the congress on 12 and 13 September 2019. The “Digital Health: Challenges for progress” congress organised by Osakidetza and the UPV/EHU Summer Courses included the participation of the Health Minister, Nekane Murga, who gave the inaugural speech. The central themes of the congress [...]
The fourth national congress took place from 21 to 24 July 2019 in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz. Nekane Murga, Basque Regional Minister for Health, was in charge of opening the congress, which was held this year for the first time alongside the International Symposium on Psychological Prevention. Over four days more than 1,500 people gathered [...]
The meeting allowed us to analyse the tasks developed until now and establish a detailed plan for the actions to be carried out over the next months. Trondheim (Norway), where the NTNU -one of the seven members of the Consortium- headquarters are located, was chosen to hold the third general assembly for the UPRIGHT European [...]
Osakidetza and Kronikgune along with BIOEF visited the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow on 29 and 30 April. This visit forms part of the activities in the 2019-2020 action plan for the Interreg Europe Project, TITTAN (Translation, Innovation & Technology Transfer in Ageing Network). TITTAN seeks to improve the quality of healthcare systems by developing [...]
On 2 and 3 May 2019, the city of Rotterdam welcomed this event. ICHOM is a non-profit organisation seeking to catalyse the global movement to transform patient care into value-based healthcare. This transformation is promoted in several ways: encouraging informed decision making, improving care quality and reducing costs. To date, the organisation has worked with [...]
All the project partners gathered in London on 9-10 May 2019. At this Assembly, participants analysed the work carried out over the past six months, planned the main tasks to be undertaken over the next few months, and prepared the second official project review with the European Commission. The main goal of the C3-Cloud Project [...]
The city of Budapest hosted the general assembly on the 14th and 15th of May. The CHRODIS-PLUS Joint Action, which has been operating for 20 months, seeks to address the burden caused by chronic diseases, as well as ensuring sustainability and response from European healthcare systems. 42 beneficiaries from 20 European countries, including Norway, [...]
You may access it for free on the project’s official website. The Handbook gathers the experiences and results of the three-year study. It intends to spread knowledge and share the experiences of the regions participating in the study of good practices in integrated care and telemonitoring. These Good Practices are aimed at patients suffering from [...]
The international annual conference on Integrated Care was held from 1 to 3 April. The congress was organized by Osakidetza, BIOEF, the Health Department of the Basque Government, the Donostia-San Sebastian City Council and the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council, along with the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), under the title “A shared culture for change: [...]
The Institute of Public Health of The American College of Greece was the chosen venue for the meeting held on the 10th and 11th of April, 2019. The European Union’s Third Health Programme (2014-2020) co-finances the ADVANTAGE Joint Action. The project is currently in its final stage. Kronikgune and Osakidetza, representing the Basque Country, are [...]
The event was held on 14 March at the Cruces University Hospital lecture hall. The 1st Workshop on Caring for the Elderly brought together health professionals in Primary Care, Mental Health Care, Hospital Care, Social and Health fields, and Public Health, as well as management teams in the health sector. It had two objectives: (i) [...]
The 11th edition of the National Congress of Chronic Patient Healthcare was held at the Merida Conference and Exhibition Centre from 7 to 8 March. The event brought together health and social services professionals, health managers and patients under the motto “Expanding Horizons” to discuss the future of chronic diseases. It is estimated that at [...]
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