On 26th November 2015, the National Healthcare School in Madrid will host the event for the third year in a row, at which the projects and results obtained to date will be presented.  This network of researchers made up of 14 research groups from 8 autonomous communities, was founded with the aim of improving the [...]

On 9th and 10th December, Brussels will host the Annual Conference of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA), which will be devoted to "Accelerating market uptake of innovation for active and healthy ageing across Europe". The EIP-AHA ("European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing") is now at a crucial stage [...]

As part of this study in the Basque Country, Osakidetza, Kronikgune and Tekniker have developed an on-line application for patients with bipolar disorder.   FI-STAR (Future Internet Social and Technological Alignment Research), which is funded by the FP7 programme, was launched on 01 April 2013 and has lasted for a total of 30 months, with [...]

In order to promote healthy lifestyles in adolescents aged between 12 and 14 years using games and activities, the “Bidasoatik Mundura, Sasoi Erronka” programme has been launched, as part of the European Pre-Start project, in 10 secondary schools in Bidasoa. The European Pre-Start project aims to identify and create a tool for identifying the risk factors associated [...]

Milan will host the 8th European Conference on Public Health, at which the Cookbook for ACT (Advancing Care Coordination and Telehealth Deployment) will be launched, from 14 to 18 October. At 11 Am on 14 October, as part of the session dedicated to “Post-crisis opportunities, from a budget-based approach to achieve better results and performance”, Cristina [...]

Training of the professionals who will participate in Mastermind is the launchpad for this intervention, which will roll-out an on-line cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for patients with mild or moderate depression. During October and November 2015, professionals from the organisations participating in Mastermind, namely HUA and Araba Region, OSI Ezkerraldea Enkarterri Cruces, OSI Barrualde Galdakao, [...]

The aim of this meeting is to make further progress in the use of ICT in integrated care as a solution to current challenges.   The slogan of this V edition, which will be held at the Cosmo Caixa (Barcelona) on 12 and 13 November, is “ITC: the best solution today and for the healthcare [...]

The aim of this meeting is to present the research and innovation strategies currently being implemented in the Basque health system. The XXII European Week for Advanced Management, the slogan for which is “Advanced management to achieve advanced organisations” will be held in the Basque Country between 26 October and 6 November. At the same [...]

This II edition, which is intended to share the available knowledge and experiences regarding the launch of initiatives focussing on integrated care, will be held on 18 November. The integrated care organisation model, in which Osakidetza has been immersed for many years, is based on a person-centred population approach in order to facilitate access to [...]

Barcelona will host the forthcoming edition of ICIC, the slogan for which is “A Movement for Change: Enabling People-Centred and Integrated Health and Social Care”.   This conference, which is co-organised by the PIAISS of the Catalan Regional Government, the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (HCB), the ITESSS Forum and the Fundación TicSalut, will be held [...]

Recruitment of adolescents aged between 12 and 14 years, who will be included in the health promotion and lifestyle modification programme, will commence in October. The group-based intervention of the Pre-Start project Prevention Strategies for Adolescents at Risk of Diabetes, led by Dr. Itziar Vergara, the aim of which is to approach aspects related to [...]

The Basque Country, represented by Kronikgune and Osakidetza, leads the European Carewell project, which mainly focuses on improving the care and care services provided to multiply co-morbid patients via two pathways: the coordination of integrated care, and empowerment, care and support at home by way of the development and use of new information and communication [...]

The aim of the recently launched European Pre-Start project is to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to promote healthy lifestyles amongst adolescents aged between 12 and 14 years. The increase in obesity and physical inactivity in adolescents is provoking an increase in diseases more often associated with adults, such as metabolic syndrome, type II [...]

  As part of the EIP AHA – European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing, Action Group B3- Integrated care will organise the first on-line seminar on "Best practices in change management: Maccabi Multidisciplinary Telemedicine Centre for Chronic Disease Management" on 06 August at 14:00 CET. The aim of this seminar is to present the [...]

Brussels has become a meeting point for European regions and market leaders, who have discussed how technology, innovation and new means of cooperation can become an opportunity for major demographic change in Europe. In 2013 the Basque Country was named as a European Reference Site due to its work on an integrated, innovation-based approach to [...]

With the slogan “Primary Care: Showing the Way”, the Spanish Society of Primary Care Managers (SEDAP) held its XVII Congress, the objective of which was to share and provide a global vision of the profession and to debate the leadership in the public health model that primary care must take on, in Palma de Mallorca. [...]

The primary objective of the European Mastermind project is to roll-out an on-line cognitive behavioural therapy programme as part of an integrated intervention. Although depression affects approximately 350 million people worldwide, statistics confirm that more than 50% of sufferers do not receive appropriate treatment. This is mainly due to a lack of resources, the stigmatisation [...]

Health systems are being transformed to provide patients with integrated care, and in this context empowerment of the patient and/or caregiver becomes a key health-related process. Thus, empowerment allows patients to take an active role in managing their disease by acquiring greater control over the decisions and actions that affect their health. Within the framework [...]

The Carewell project led by the Basque Country, via Osakidetza and Kronikgune, has been selected as one of the “Initiatives of the Year” in the Management category by Correo Farmacéutico, a publication that recently celebrated its XII Awards Ceremony, which aims to reward the daily work of people whose contributions help to improve the world [...]

The European Advancing Care Coordination and Telehealth Deployment Programme (ACT) project funded by DG Sanco is specifically designed to help overcome current barriers to the large-scale implementation of CC and TH in health systems.  The purpose of the meeting is to move forward with the analysis of organisational and structural keys required for the successful [...]

The Miramar Palace in Donostia–San Sebastián will host the course “Digital Health: Innovative Experiences” organised by the University of the Basque Country and Osakidetza on 18 and 19 June. This meeting will cover the incorporation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) into healthcare products, services and processes, as well as into healthcare organisations, with the [...]