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Kronikgune participates in the conference «Young50: sharing excellence in Europe» and the regular meeting of the European project YOUNG50.

By |2023-02-02T16:01:39+01:006 February 2023|

The event was held at the Museum of the History of Medicine (MUSME) in Padua, Italy, on 31st January and 1st of February 2023. The YOUNG50 project aims to transfer the Italian model of cardiovascular risk and disease screening, CARDIO50, to three European countries: Lithuania, Romania, and Luxembourg. CARDIO50 is a programme aimed at promoting [...]

Kronikgune contributes to the publication of the e-book «Measuring health outcomes and experiences from a patient’s perspective».

By |2023-02-02T11:01:43+01:002 February 2023|

The e-book has been published in the scientific repository of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, with the collaboration of the OECD as part of the editorial team. The e-book "Measuring health outcomes and experiences from a patient's perspective" aims to showcase some of the good practices and experiences of health systems towards improving people's health [...]

Kronikgune is looking for a person with a clinical epidemiology profile as part of the Ikerbasque Grants programme.

By |2023-01-26T08:44:37+01:0026 January 2023|

The Kronikgune Institute, dedicated to research into the organization and management of health and social-health systems, is interested in incorporating into its team a person with a clinical epidemiology profile who can apply for the Ikerbasque grant program for post-doctoral researchers (https://www.ikerbasque.net/en/calls/research-fellows-2023), which aims to finance a contract of up to five years with the [...]

Two Kronikgune Institute researchers among the most influential in the world

By |2022-12-29T14:05:24+01:0029 December 2022|

The ranking prepared by Stanford University, California, selects 2% of the most cited researchers in scientific publications. Two researchers attached to the Kronikgune Institute, José María Quintana, Principal Investigator of the Kronikgune Research Group "Health services in chronic diseases" (Barrualde-Galdakao IHO), and Amaia Bilbao, Principal Investigator of the RICAPPS network group "Development of methodologies for [...]

Second JADECARE Joint Action Stakeholders’ Forum meeting

By |2022-12-13T11:20:09+01:0012 December 2022|

The event was held in a hybrid format, face-to-face in Hamburg (Germany) and online on 23 November 2022. The JADECARE Stakeholder Forum aims to facilitate the exchange of experiences and the creation of productive collaborative networks between organizations and entities participating in JADECARE and relevant stakeholders. This forum is composed of representatives from health systems, [...]

Kronikgune participates in the 2nd Portuguese Conference of Integrated Care (II Encontro Nacional de Integração de Cuidados – ENICII)

By |2022-12-29T09:56:31+01:007 December 2022|

The conference was held in Aveiro, Portugal on 24-25 November 2022.  The main theme of the 2nd Portuguese Conference on Integrated Care was "Strategies for people with chronic diseases". The event was organized by PAFIC, the Portuguese Association of Integrated Care, a non-profit association that brings together several professionals who seek to promote the [...]

XII RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON HEALTH POLICY AND SERVICES EVALUATION ORGANISED BY THE EvaluAES GROUP

By |2022-12-01T10:48:46+01:001 December 2022|

CALL FOR PAPERS The EvaluAES group is organizing its twelfth workshop on Research in Health Policy and Services Evaluation, which will take place on 12 May 2023 at the Kronikgune, at the Bilbao Exhibition Center (BEC). The aim of this workshop is to promote multidisciplinary exchange between researchers, as well as to contribute to improving [...]

Kronikgune presents the JADECARE project at the International Primary and Community Care Conference

By |2022-12-02T12:03:56+01:0030 November 2022|

The meeting was held on the 28th and 29th of November 2022 in the assembly hall of the Ministry of Health in Madrid. The two-day International Conference on Primary and Community Care (https://cisapyc.com/) aimed to highlight the value of Primary and Community Care, its impact on health and equity, its organization, and the role of [...]

Kronikgune attends the kick-off meeting of the European project JANE

By |2022-11-23T13:20:32+01:0023 November 2022|

The meeting was held on 14 and 15 November in Milan, Italy. Cancer is one of the areas of action and health priorities of the European Commission as it is the second leading cause of death in EU countries, after cardiovascular diseases. Each year, 2.6 million people are diagnosed with cancer, and 1.2 million [...]

JADECARE project organises second Policy Board meeting

By |2022-12-12T17:42:40+01:0021 November 2022|

The meeting was held in online format on the 17th of November 2022. The aim of the meeting was to present and discuss the interim results of the implementation of the good practices (based on the thematic workshops organized with the early adopters) with the Policy Board members, as well as to share the overall [...]

Kronikgune team attends the fifth plenary meeting of ADLIFE

By |2022-12-01T12:12:09+01:0018 November 2022|

The Conference center in the Assuta Medical Centers Clinics Tower (Tel-Aviv, Israle) hosted the consortium meeting on 15-16 November 2022.  The main objective of the meeting was to follow up and share the progress of the project, main achievements to date, problems and difficulties encountered, discuss solutions and define next steps. The event, held in [...]

Kronikgune organizes JADECARE project workshop at the 15th European Public Health Conference

By |2022-11-10T15:38:55+01:0010 November 2022|

The conference coordinated  by the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) takes place in Berlin, Germany, from 9th to 11th of November 2022. The 15th edition will focus on the more active role that Europe must take in global health. The main theme of the European Public Health Conference is "Strengthening health systems: improving population health [...]

Kronikgune presents VOICE European Community at the 10th ICHOM Conference

By |2022-11-02T12:27:56+01:002 November 2022|

The conference will be held from the 1st to the 3rd  of November 2022 in Boston, USA. ICHOM is the International Congress on Health Outcomes Measurement celebrating its 10th anniversary. It is the world's leading congress on value-based healthcare. During three days, the congress will bring together delegations from different health systems, care providers, patient [...]

JADECARE Joint Action celebrates its second plenary meeting in Bilbao

By |2022-10-27T08:55:22+02:0027 October 2022|

The meeting will be held on the 26th and 27th of October 2022 at the Bizkaia B Accelerator Tower BAT in Bilbao. The Bizkaia International Centre for Entrepreneurship, located in the Bizkaia Tower, hosts the second meeting of the JADECARE Joint Action consortium. The event brought together more than 50 representatives ranging from directors of [...]

Kronikgune participates in the XXXVIII Congress of the Spanish Society for Quality of Care (SECA acronym in Spanish)

By |2022-10-20T17:46:02+02:0020 October 2022|

From October 19 to 21, the Congress Palace of Zaragoza hosts the event organized by SECA and the Aragonese Society for Quality of Care (SACA). Under the slogan "Today's challenges, tomorrow's quality", the three-day congress of the Spanish Society for Healthcare Quality (https://calidadasistencial.es/) has merged together members of the Spanish Society for Healthcare Quality, as [...]

The European Commission awards the Basque Country with highest rating, four stars, for its comprehensive approach to active and healthy ageing

By |2022-10-11T11:04:58+02:0011 October 2022|

Kronikgune Institute has collaborated with the BIOEF Foundation in the preparation and presentation of the Basque Country to the 4th Call for European Reference Sites. The European Commission, through the Reference Site Collaborative Network (RSCN), has awarded the Basque Country with four stars, the highest rating awarded by the European Commission, for its comprehensive approach [...]

A delegation from Singapore visits the Basque Country to learn about the Basque health system and the care provided by Primary Care.

By |2022-10-07T11:48:00+02:007 October 2022|

The collaboration, coordinated by the Kronikgune Institute together with the Directorate General of Osakidetza, has contributed to the transfer of knowledge of the Basque Country internationally. A delegation from the Singapore health system made up of representatives from the National Health Service of Singapore including the President and CEO, heads of the Population Health and [...]

Kronikgune will attend the Interreg TITTAN COVID-19 project final event

By |2022-09-26T13:03:50+02:0026 September 2022|

The event will be held on 27 September 2022 at the ACIS conference room in Santiago de Compostela.   The TITTAN COVID-19 project (Translation, Innovation & Technology Transfer in Ageing Network in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic), aims to establish a knowledge exchange network between five European regions to promote innovation and technology transfer [...]

The Research Network on Chronicity, Primary Care and Health Promotion (RICAPPS) is launched.

By |2022-09-16T12:42:58+02:0019 September 2022|

Kronikgune Institute for Health Services Research coordinates two research groups led by Osakidetza professionals. Chronic diseases are the main causes of mortality in Europe and Spain. Moreover, they require complex, integrated, and coordinated long-term health care, involving different health professionals, resources (drugs, diagnostic tests, surgery, rehabilitation, nursing care) and, sometimes, the coordination with social services. [...]

Kronikgune participates in the 9th International Congress on Digital Health

By |2022-09-12T13:17:38+02:0013 September 2022|

The 9th edition will be held from 12 to 16 September 2022 in Donostia - San Sebastian.  The International Digital Health Congress, organized by the Digital Health Association and the Signo Foundation, has been held continuously since 2014. This edition will focus on Value-Based Digital Health. Digital Health is a tool and/or digital medium that [...]

Kronikgune participates in the UPV-EHU summer course organised by EuskoFederpen

By |2022-09-12T11:47:55+02:0012 September 2022|

The course will be held on September 14 2022 at the Carlos Santamaria Centre in Donostia - San Sebastian.  The summer course entitled "Models of Care for the Elderly. If not at home, just like at home" is organised by EuskoFederpen, an organisation that includes more than 230 social centres, pensioners' and retired people's associations [...]

The European Community VOICE finalist in the New Medical Economics Awards

By |2022-08-10T10:27:07+02:0010 August 2022|

Every year since 2019, the New Medical Economics Awards, assessed by its readers and its Editorial Board, recognizes the merits of institutions and professionals dedicated to health management, which have become a reference in the world of healthcare. New Medical Economics (https://www.newmedicaleconomics.es/) is a digital media specializing in disseminating health management content in the publication [...]

Thematic Workshops organized by the Next Adopters of the JADECARE project

By |2022-08-05T08:09:38+02:0029 July 2022|

During the implementation phase of JADECARE, between June and July 2022, 10 Thematic Workshops have been organized in 10 European regions by the Next Adopters (NAs) of the project.  The JADECARE Joint Action, coordinated at European level by Kronikgune, addresses the implementation of integrated and person-centered care through digital solutions. In this Joint Action involving [...]

The intervention on the management of polypharmacy coordinated by Kronikgune is presented at the XLII SEMFYC Congress

By |2022-07-21T11:45:38+02:0021 July 2022|

The 42nd edition of the national congress of the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine was held from 30 June to 2 July in Seville. The 42nd edition of the National Congress of the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine, Semfyc, (https://congresodelasemfyc.com/home) held at the Fibes-Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones in Seville, brought [...]

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 [...]

Kronikgune participates in the 27th Congress of the Euroepan Health Management Association (EHMA 2022)

By |2022-06-15T15:20:16+02:0014 June 2022|

The congress will be held from 15-17 June 2022 in a face-to-face format for the first time in Brussels, Belgium. The international and benchmark conference on health management celebrates its 40th anniversary, with the main theme "From people to systems: leadership for a sustainable future". In collaboration with the Leuven Institute for Health Policy, the [...]

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 participates in the XVI Conference on Health Management and Evaluation organised by the Andalusian School of Public Health in Granada.

By |2022-06-01T07:20:27+02:0031 May 2022|

The event was held in a face-to-face format from 25 to 27 May 2022. "People and technology: drivers of change" was the slogan chosen by the Signo Foundation for the 16th edition of this conference. Public health professionals, managers, researchers, and professionals with other profiles met for three days to share experiences and projects that [...]

Kronikgune participates in the 22nd International Congress on Integrated Care ICIC 2022

By |2022-05-23T12:04:40+02:0023 May 2022|

The 22nd edition of the congress will be held from 23-25 May 2022 in hybrid, online, and face-to-face format in Odense, Denmark. ICIC 2022, the International Conference on Integrated Care, is one of the most prestigious congresses in Europe, bringing together researchers, managers, and healthcare professionals, as well as management teams from different European countries [...]

Kronikgune presents integrated care strategy at SANTEXPO congress

By |2022-05-18T16:35:49+02:0018 May 2022|

The 56th edition of the congress was held from 17 to 19 May 2022 in Paris.  The SANTEXPO exhibition (https://www.santexpo.com/en/) is celebrating its 56th edition and this year's theme was "Health, Europe's new frontier?  SANTEXPO had 900 exhibitors and brought together more than 30,000 people: caregivers, experts, researchers, technology developers, and healthcare professionals involved in [...]