Advancing Proactive Digital Integrated Care
ProACT (Integrated Technology Systems for ProACTive Patient Centred Care) is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project in PHC-25-2015. ProACT targets Europe’s 50 million multimorbid patients to proactively self-manage and offset the EU’s annual €700 billion cost of chronic disease management. ProACT aims to develop and evaluate an ecosystem to integrate a wide variety of new and existing technologies to improve and advance home-based integrated care for older adults with multimorbidity, including associated co-morbidities.
ProACT Ecosystem
The ecosystem will connect four key care and support models central to understanding and implementing effective, continued and coordinated patient centric care (including self-management).
- Homecare (including informal care)
- Hospital care
- Community and social care
- Social support networks
Improving Patient Engagement
Improving Workflow Management
Advancing Home-based Healthcare and use of ICT-AT
Advancing New Healthcare Models
ProACT Trial Sites
Trial sites in Ireland and Belgium will use Living Lab facilities to ensure co-design of ProACT technologies, and implement proof of concept trials involving national health services, 120 patients and their formal and informal care networks. Clinical status information, therapies and activity tools will be deployed for the conditions: chronic heart failure (CHF), coronary heart disease (CHD), diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Tools to support mild cognitive impairment and detect early stage dementia will also be explored. Commercial potential will be validated during the project supported by a European feasibility study in Italy to assess the cultural and political determinants for adoption and scalability of the ecosystem.