European telecare project going beyond Whole System Demonstrators:
Advancing Care Coordination and Telehealth 

The Advancing Care Coordination & Telehealth Deployment (ACT) Programme brings together a pan-European consortium of leading companies, universities, hospitals and healthcare authorities. Initiated in February 2013, the 2.5-year programme will define best practices in care coordination and telehealth. The objective of this EU co-funded project is to overcome the structural and organizational barriers of the deployment of coordinated care.

The ACT programme addresses a primary challenge facing healthcare systems in EU member states: the ageing population and the related burden of chronic disease. By specifically investigating four key drivers, influencing the effective deployment of Coordinated Care & TeleHealth services and generating 'best practice' examples, ACT provides the foundation to help overcome organisational and structural issues in patient stratification, patient and staff engagement, optimisation of organisational structures, and efficacy and efficiency.

 www.act-program.eu

Affiliate Members

The ACT programme is open and willing to share our ambition and results. If you, as a European Healthcare regions, are interested in our activities and results we would like to welcome you as an affiliate member of the programme. For further information, please contact the project coordinator.

Why might you want to be an ACT programme affiliate member?

Engagement as observer in the ACT programme would enable your healthcare region to:

• Access to programme results and participation in project meetings
• Learn from the others' good practice and experiences
• Provide opportunities for collaboration leading to efficiently (re-) design and validate innovative care services and expand the services to larger population - with the same level of investment
• Enlarge your visibility at international level
• Enable local industry to see a larger market, beyond the 'local border'
• Engage political/industrial support

Engagement as evaluation site in the ACT programme would enable, in addition, your healthcare region to:

• Access to the ACT evaluation engine and fully participate in the evaluation process and best practice selection
• Get evidence and benchmarking of your solution under the review of the key international experts
• Combine evidence with all the evaluation sites

Contact
 http://www2.med.auth.gr/act/contact.php