On the 8th of February, the Closing Conference for the MasterMind European project was held at La Pedrera, Barcelona. The MasterMind European Project began in 2014 with the purpose of developing and implementing an on-line Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for depressed patients. This international initiative has been implemented in 15 European regions and has [...]
On the 28th of February, the closing conference for the Carewell European project was held at CosmoCaixa Barcelona. An event shared with the European project BeyondSilos, which is also ending. The conference was attended by over a hundred attendees; members of the consortium, professionals and directors of the regions that participated in the project, [...]
In December 2016 the European Commission awarded the Basque Country four stars as a “Reference Site”. This status is granted to Regions, Cities, Hospitals, Organisations or Health Services that implement a comprehensive and innovative approach to active and healthy ageing. Thus, the regions granted “Reference Site” status, commit to actively participate in the deployment and [...]
The project technological partners have visited the 3 pilot regions: the Basque Country, the UK and Sweden, in June, September and November, respectively. The purpose of the C3-Cloud “A Federated Collaborative Care Cure Cloud Architecture for Addressing the Needs of Multi-morbidity and Managing Poly-pharmacy” project is to provide patients with multiple co-morbidities with continuous personalised [...]
On the 19th and 20th of January the Joint Action ADVANTAGE initiative “Managing Frailty. A comprehensive approach to promote a disability-free advanced age” has celebrated its kick-off meeting. This Joint Action on the Prevention of Frailty is co-funded by the Third European Health Programme of the European Union 2014-2020. ADVANTAGE has a budget of 3.5 [...]
On 18th and 19th October, Kronikgune hosted the first meeting of the Scirocco European project. The aim of the meeting was to review the project progress, move forward in the decision-making for the next steps and share the Good Practices in integrated care from the 5 participating European regions. The Scirocco European project “SCaling IntegRated [...]
Kronikgune and Osakidetza have made an information video about the Carewell project to tell the general public about the work carried out in the Basque Country. The result of the Carewell project in the EC's annual review was excellent. In fact, one of the things that the EC recommended was to let the general public [...]
The meeting that gathered data managers and methodologists working on the European Mastermind project took place in Bilbao on 6, 7 and 8 September. The leaders of all the pilot regions met to analyse the information collected up until now and move forward in the decision-making process for the final results report for the European [...]
Many countries all over the world are interested in the ASSEHS White Paper – it has been downloaded hundreds of times in more than 28 countries in the first few weeks after being published. The knowledge that the European project ASSEHS has generated has been disseminated worldwide. Activation of Stratification Strategies and Results of the [...]
The purpose of the European project MasterMind is to deploy an online cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) programme to combat depression within an integrated intervention. Before starting the intervention, all the regions analysed the existing online programmes to ascertain how they should be adapted from a clinical, technical and economic perspective or if a new programme was [...]
The programme began in September 2015 in 10 school centres of Irún and Hondarribia, and ended last June 2016 with a large celebration in Ficoba, Irún. The child/youth population does less and less exercise and the nutritional pattern is changing. There is an increase in the prevalence of excess weight and obesity. Schools are a [...]
This training was developed within the European project ASSEHS in response to one of the areas of improvement detected in the Basque Country. Its purpose is to improve the knowledge of the professionals of Osakidetza on risk stratification and its use in healthcare. ASSEHS is a European project whose aim is to activate stratification tools [...]
Organised as one of the summer courses from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), it will be held on 1st and 2nd September 2016 at the Miramar Palace in Donostia-San Sebastián. The training is addressed especially to professionals involved in research activity, and the basic rules of the research process and efficiency in research [...]
The objective is to establish a network for exchanging experiences with 7 European regions. The plan has a budget of nearly 1,7 million euro of European funds. The scope of the project includes two different phases: the first one to design an action plan and the second one to implement this action plan. Kronikgune participates [...]
The Health Services in Chronic Disease Research Network (REDISSEC) along with Alcalá University has organised a course entitled "Expert in Health Services and Chronic Disease Research”. It is a research programme in health services and chronic research that will help participants obtain essential knowledge, capabilities and skills for the development of research activity in this [...]
From 23rd to 25th May 2016, Barcelona hosted the 16th Integrated Conference on Integrated Care, where European projects in which Kronikgune takes part had an outstanding presence. This annual event aimed at healthcare and socio-healthcare professionals in the public and private sectors was organised by PIAISS of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (HCB), Forum [...]
The 6th Q-epea Congress was acknowledged as the Best Good Practice of the year and received the Professor Barea Award also granted to the project by the Signo Foundation. Carewell, co-ordinated by Kronikgune at European level with the active participation of the Basque Health Service Osakidetza, received two new awards to be added to those granted [...]
On 21st April, the SmartCare project third-year review took place in Brussels, where Kronikgune presented all the activities carried out over the previous year by the 13 Committed Regions of this Board. The aim of SmartCare is to define and drive the integration of health and socio-healthcare services to improve quality of life for chronic [...]
2016 started with strength at Kronikgune as ACT@Scale, Scirocco and C3-Cloud projects have joined the list of six European projects currently under development at the Centre, in co-operation with Osakidetza. In 2015, Kronikgune submitted new research project proposals for the calls for Horizon 2020, CHAFEA, Interreg, Joint Action schemes among others. A total of 13 [...]
On 14 and 15 March the Kick-off Meeting for the project in which Osakidetza and Kronikgune are participating took place in Luxembourg. ACT@Scale, Advanced Care Coordination (CC) & Telehealth (TH) Deployment at Scale, is a European project that aims to implement, develop and consolidate best practices in integrated care and telemonitoring. The project intends to [...]
Kronikgune and Osakidetza are the two organisations representing the Basque Country in this project, which focuses on the development and usage of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) to improve care of multi-morbid patients. C3-Cloud (whose full name is “A Federated Collaborative Care & Cure Cloud Architecture for Addressing the Needs of Multi-morbidity and Managing Poly-pharmacy”) [...]
After the “Grant Agreement” signing, the kick-off meeting for the European project SCALING INTEGRATED CARE IN CONTEXT (SCIROCCO) took place in Luxembourg on 12th and 13th April. The Consortium in charge of the project, which will last 32 months, is led by Scotland's National Telehealth and Telecare Organisation NHS24. Scirocco aims to facilitate the implementation [...]
The Deputy Councillor for Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness published the decision whereby the Asociación Kronikgune is accredited as a Science/Technology Agent of the Basque Network in the category of Health R&D Organisation. The RVCTI was created on 29th April 1997, with the aim of developing a smart technology infrastructure, to network in a supplementary and [...]
On 7th and 8th April 2016, Madrid (Palacio de Congresos) hosted the 8th National Congress of Chronic Patient Healthcare and the Third Active Patient National Conference, attended by a large number of professionals in the field. This year the motto was “Making Progress with Results”, with the aim of applying the theory to healthcare practice, [...]
The “Bidasoatik Mundura, Sasoi Erronka” programme has been running since September 2015 in ten schools in Bidasoa with the aim of promoting healthy life habits amongst adolescents aged 12-14 through games and activities. Schools are a great place to promote healthy habits because it is possible to reach the population of compulsory school age. With [...]
The CNIS (National Congress on Innovation and Public Services) Awards recognise the projects that are contributing the most to the Digital Transformation of Public Administrations and Services aimed at people. The European project CareWell, coordinated in Europe by Kronikgune, with the participation of Osakidetza (the Basque Healthcare Service), has won the “Most Innovative European Project” [...]
300 patients suffering from mild to moderate depression are expected to receive an eight-week on-line therapy treatment called “Beat your depression”, within a maximum of 12 weeks. “Beat your depression” is an on-line therapy programme designed for people with mild or moderate depression and aimed at learning new strategies to overcome illness and modify [...]
Dr. Marisa Merino, Managing Director of OSI Tolosaldea and chief researcher of the Carewell project in the Basque Country, received the international finalist award for the “Potential Innovation" category. On 27th January 2016, the IX innovation awards ceremony of Quality Innovation of the Year 2015 took place in Tallin (Estonia) where the European Carewell project developed [...]
50 adolescents and their families have been included in a programme to promote health and a change of life habits. Three basic areas will be covered in this programme: eating, physical activity and emotional health. This programme has been developed as part of the European project called Pre-Start, Prevention Strategies for Adolescents at Risk of [...]
A tool has been developed as part of the ASSEHS project to appraise stratification techniques and compare the main stratification models. The “Appraisal Standard” tool offers information on stratification models specific to each health system, enables the comparison between different stratification models and helps to define suitable stratification models for each health system. This tool [...]
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