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Enabling Integrated Care:
Harnessing personal health systems for better outcomes across the care continuum

Barcelona, 18 March 2010

Drawing on the experience of healthcare providers who are already using personal health systems to support home care for chronic disease management, the workshop provided a forum to explore opportunities and identify solutions for integrating Personal Health systems in routine healthcare.

Focusing on the hands-on experience of clinicians, the workshop outlined key benefits of Personal Health Systems (PHS) such as reduced emergency department attendance and repeat hospitalisation, improved patient compliance and human resource capacity.

Speakers and participants discussed how they have overcome (or intend to overcome) some of the key interoperability challenges inherent in using personal health systems as part of routine healthcare, such as:

  • integration of PHS into the clinical workflow
  • human resource organisation and co-operation with informal care providers
  • patient rights (consent, privacy, access)
  • professional liability and insurance
  • Identification and authentication of patients and professionals
  • Interoperability in a multi-vendor environment
Presentations

Challenges of PHS interoperability in daily practice - what are key issues?
Karl Stroetmann, empirica

English Whole System Demonstrator - Interoperability experience and lessons learned
Dr Atul Kumar, Newham Primary Care Trust

Personal health systems interoperability in wound care
Claus Pedersen, Odense University Hospital

Personal health systems and COPD - how to integrate into routine service delivery?
Dr Josep Roca, Hospital Clinic University of Barcelona

(A concept paper was distributed with the agenda)