Manifesto Europeu para a e-Saúde

http://epractice.eu/en/library/290775

Complete title:
A Manifesto for Connected Health: Delivering Leadership Value - Maintaining Healthcare Values

Description (short summary):
This paper summarises the outputs from the 'Connected Health Leadership Summit' held in Belfast Northern Ireland in May 2009. It reflects the work of delegates of the Summit that brought together commercial, clinical, academic and governmental viewpoints to provide the European Connected Health Campus (ECHCampus) with a framework for projects and priorities through 2011.

Multifaceted challenges demand multifaceted responses - from encouraging lifestyle changes and individual responsibilities through to global sharing of knowledge and investment in infrastructures to enable resource linkages. Connected Health is a large concept reaching across and beyond this complex healthcare landscape. The potential for point solutions - the use of networked technologies to reduce costs and enhance quality - is well-understood if not yet widely or effectively exploited. Even the 'relatively simple' matter of boosting medication compliance can deliver substantial benefits and underwrite the viability of infrastructure investment.

Beyond the myriad of small pilot schemes and localised 'E', 'Tele' and 'Cyber-segmented' projects (all challenging and inspired initiatives that are themselves complex to implement and constrained by infrastructural shortcomings) a bigger picture for which the label 'Connected' has a broader meaning; facilitated by networked technologies but driven by a wider and deeper understanding of regional and global healthcare agendas and societal needs. The development of Connected Health, in its various forms, should in large part be driven by a patient/citizen approach - not led by technology - and designed to deliver value but not compromise the essential values of healthcare delivery.

Number of pages: 9
Original URL
http://www.echcampus.com/news/events/leadership-summit.html