1 / 8

Telemedicine implementation, evidence-based decisions making

Telemedicine implementation, evidence-based decisions making. Francisca Garcia Lizana Seconded National Expert - Policy Officer. ICT for Health Unit DG Information Society and Media European Commission.

adeola
Download Presentation

Telemedicine implementation, evidence-based decisions making

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Telemedicine implementation, evidence-based decisions making Francisca Garcia Lizana Seconded National Expert - Policy Officer. ICT for Health Unit DG Information Society and Media European Commission Legal Advertisement: The opinions presented are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official view of the European Commission on the subject".

  2. Evidences on telemedicine • A lot of study show evidence about effectiveness and efficacy, but not enough. • High quality evidence regarding impact on resource allocation and cost is still needed • A standardized methodology

  3. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/policy/telemedicine/index_en.htmhttp://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/policy/telemedicine/index_en.htm

  4. Actions to be undertaken by the Commission • (8) The Commission will support the development, by 2011, of guidelines for consistent assessment of the impact of telemedicine services, including effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. This will be based: • on the work of experts in the field, • Commission-supported studies, Study Methodology to assess Telemedicine Applications (02-2009/02-2010) • large-scale pilot schemes: Renewing Health • and relevant research projects.

  5. Policy EC: ICT for patient-centered health service Why- Policy Context: • “Communication on Telemedicine and benefits of patients, healthcare systems and society” COM(2008) final, identified the need to have evidences on a large scale of the effectiveness of telemedicine solutions. What - Aim: • To validate in real life settings, the use of existing Personal Health Systems for innovative types of telemedicine services and to prepare for their wider deployment. • To produce large-scale, measurable, comparable and statistically significant results, regarding the effectiveness of the solutions tested, using a commonly agreed and scientifically sound assessment methodology. How- Proposed Funding Instrument: CIP • Pilot A – up to 7 Mill EUR

  6. Proposed Objective 1.1ICT for patient-centered health service Expected outcomes: • Provide patients with innovative PHSs to mange their conditions outside “traditional” healthcare settings • Provide health professionals with monitoring and diagnostic data for decision making, thus facilitating personalised care for chronically ill patients • Enable, on a large scale, continuity of care through enhanced interaction between patients and primary care settings (i.e., General Practitioners, pharmacies, health centres, etc), as well as secondary care settings

  7. Great Expectation! • Large scale pilot • Multi-centric and multi-countries deployment. • Common validated methodology • Framework to identified the different factors related with the successful implementation • Use model of quality: standardised criteria will be used • Support decision making in Europe

  8. Policy site: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/ehealth • eHealth eNewsletter: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/health/newsletter/index_en.htm> Subscribe through the Europa Portal – HTML version now available • Research site:http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/home_en.html • Thank you francica-rosario.garcia-lizana@ec.europa.eu To find more on ICT for Health activities / eHealth?

More Related