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 [...]