Digital & Multiorganisational Service Integration - Case Kuopio

DIGITAL & MULTIORGANISATIONAL ​SERVICE INTEGRATION – case Kuopio FINLAND, 2020

This abstract and poster are an image of an ongoing dissertation subresearch of Implementing Human Service Integration in Finland. The material was published at ICIC20 conference in September 2020. ICIC20 conference was organized by International Foundation of Integrated Care IFIC.

2016

Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership Exploratory on the 23rd November 2016 in Aberdeen with focus on digital solutions for integrated health and care services.

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021

Background Although the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly boosted the implementation of digital services worldwide, it has become increasingly important to understand how these solutions are integrated into professionals’ routine work. Professionals who are using the services are key influencers in the success of implementations. To ensure successful implementations, it is important to understand the multiprofessional perspective, especially because implementations are likely to increase even more. Objective The aim of this study is to examine health and social care professionals’ experiences of digital service implementations and to identify factors that support successful implementations and should be considered in the future to ensure that the services are integrated into professionals’ routine work. Methods A qualitative approach was used, in which 8 focus group interviews were conducted with 30 health and social care professionals from 4 different health centers in Finland. D...

2019

BACKGROUND Digital health tools comprise a wide arrange of technologies to support health processes. The potential of these technologies to effectively support healthcare transformation is widely accepted. However, wide scale implantation is uneven among countries/regions. Identification of common factors facilitation and hampering the implementation process may be useful for future policy recommendations. OBJECTIVE To analyse the implementation of digital health tools to support healthcare and social care services, as well as to facilitate the longitudinal assessment of the services, in 17 selected integrated chronic care (ICC) programmes from 8 European countries. METHODS A programme analysis based on thick descriptions - including document examinations and semi-structured interviews with relevant stakeholders - of ICC programmes in Austria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain and United Kingdom was performed. The overarching analysis focused on the use of di...

Successful service integration in policy and practice requires both technology innovation and service process innovation being pursued and implemented at the same time. The SmartCare project (partially EC-funded under CIP ICT PSP Program) aims to achieve this through development, piloting and evaluation of ICT-based services, horizontally integrating health and social care in ten pilot regions, including Kraljevo region in Serbia. The project has identified and adopted two generic highest-level common thematic pathways in joint consolidation phase-integrated support for long-term care and integrated support after hospital discharge. A common set of standard functional specifications for an open ICT platform enabling the delivery of integrated care is being defined, around the challenges of data sharing, coordination and communication in these two formalized pathways. Implementation and system integration on technology and architecture level are to be based on open standards, multivendor interoperability, and leveraging on the current evolving open specification technology foundations developed in relevant projects across the European Research Area.

International …, 2013

Studies in health technology and informatics, 2009

Health care organizations and providers are under constant pressure to do more with less. On the other hand, users of health care services are faced with problems due to errors in communication between professionals, fragmentation of care and gaps in the continuum of care. The aim of this study was to explore the meaning of the term 'integration' with reference to health, and underscore the need for integration of the healthcare systems. The literature study approach was employed. The first part underlines the conceptualizations of integration and methods for healthcare integration in practice. In the second part, the current situation in Slovenia in this field is outlined. Activities are currently underway for laying down the fundamental normative infrastructure and legal bases for implementation of the eHealth projects, establishing a common health information network, and creating the bases for a standardized electronic health medical record. In the 'top-down' met...

Background: Despite several countrywide attempts to strengthen and standardise the primary healthcare (PHC) system, Greece is still lacking a sustainable, policy-based model of integrated services. The aim of our study was to identify operational integration levels through existing patient care pathways and to recommend an alternative PHC model for optimum integration. Methods: The study was part of a large state-funded project, which included 22 randomly selected PHC units located across two health regions of Greece. Dimensions of operational integration in PHC were selected based on the work of Kringos and colleagues. A five-point Likert-type scale, coupled with an algorithm, was used to capture and transform theoretical framework features into measurable attributes. PHC services were grouped under the main categories of chronic care, urgent/acute care, preventive care, and home care. A web-based platform was used to assess patient pathways, evaluate integration levels and propose...

International Journal of …, 2007

2020

European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) brings together partners to create innovative solutions to the challenges of aging. Reference Sites (RS) of the Partnership act as hubs of innovation and assist the scale-up of identified solutions. "Blueprint on Digital Transformation of Health and Care for the Ageing Society" (The Blueprint) is guiding the shift towards ICT enabled patient-centered care. To further inform its development, a tool has been created and piloted across RS, to explore the digital services landscape and find services that address the needs of the personas developed for this tool, that represent the needs of the populations. The aim of this case study was to explore the digital services ecosystem in primary care in Zagreb from the services availability and accessibility perspective, using the personas needs tool. The total of 23 digital services was identified out of which 21 matched at least one persona need. Each service...