Principal Results
EVENTS
We have presented the Health Circuit ACM approach to help health care professionals create patient-centered workflows combining both pharmacological and nonpharmacological interventions. It functions as a semiautomated task manager for professionals and patients, allowing them to perform certain activities as part of the patient’s action plan. This approach encourages collaboration and sharing of knowledge among health care professionals. We assessed the feasibility of the approach for two innovative health care services: (1) enhanced management of complex chronic patients with high risk of hospitalization through a secure bidirectional communication channel and (2) scalability of a prehabilitation service that was previously demonstrated to be efficient [The pilot study on community-based management of complex chronic patients with high risk for hospitalization (with a TRL of 5) showed the potential of the approach to enhance management of unplanned health events, leading to less use of health care resources as well as improved patient empowerment for self-management and perception of continuity of care. The results are encouraging, especially when considering that both patients and health care professionals reported reasonably good usability and acceptability, despite the high mean age of the study participants (72.7 years) and the series of limitations that prototype-level digital health tools with a low TRL tend to have. Similarly, Health Circuit, which has a TRL of 7, was reported to have good usability and acceptability in the pilot study on prehabilitation of high-risk candidates for major surgical procedures, improving patient adherence to nonpharmacological treatment, especially in the case of daily physical activity.