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What does it take to make integrated care work? A ‘cookbook’ for large-scale deployment of coordinated care and telehealth

  • Rosemary Davidson
    ,
  • C. Bescos
    ,
  • C. Westerteicher
    ,
  • S. Pauws
    ,
  • H. Schonenberg
    ,
  • I. Sokoreli
Research Output: Book/Report Commissioned report

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Abstract

The Advancing Care Coordination & Telehealth Deployment (ACT) Programme is the first to explore the organisational and structural processes needed to successfully implement care coordination and telehealth (CC&TH) services on a large scale. A number of insights and conclusions were identified by the ACT programme. These will prove useful and valuable in supporting the large-scale deployment of CC&TH. Targeted at populations of chronic patients and elderly people, these insights and conclusions are a useful benchmark for implementing and exchanging best practices across the EU. Examples are: Perceptions between managers, frontline staff and patients do not always match; Organisational structure does influence the views and experiences of patients: a dedicated contact person is considered both important and helpful; Successful patient adherence happens when staff are engaged; There is a willingness by patients to participate in healthcare programmes; Patients overestimate their level of knowledge and adherence behaviour; The responsibility for adherence must be shared between patients and health care providers; Awareness of the adherence concept is an important factor for adherence promotion; The ability to track the use of resources is a useful feature of a stratification strategy, however, current regional case finding tools are difficult to benchmark and evaluate; Data availability and homogeneity are the biggest challenges when evaluating the performance of the programmes.

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Output type

Research Output: Book/Report Commissioned report

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 08/10/2015

Publication status

Published - 08/10/2015

Publisher

Advancing Care Coordination and Telehealth Deployment

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  • handle.net: 10547/622647

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