Building integrated health care through the use of ICT solutions in home care
The HEALTHNET project aims at defining innovative integrated care model and at developing policies shared at cross-border level on home-care for the wellbeing of citizens, through comparative analysis, training and pilot activities implementing ICT- and social innovation. The three involved Regions have already implemented cooperation projects that will feed this new proposal. Starting from the results and lessons learned from the previous experiences, the partners foresee to set-up an institutional cooperation in order to develop transferable and sustainable integrated care models with the following objectives: to improve the integration and continuity between hospital and primary care, to strengthen the capacity of independent living for people with chronic diseases mainly in the post-discharge phases through ICT-solutions (eHealth and eCare) and training activities for formal and informal carers. _x000D_
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The project addresses crucial issues of the Italy-Austria Programme area, such as an ageing population with ageing rates higher than the EU average, the reform of health regional systems, the increasing cost of health care.