Improved coordination for patients with multimorbidity
Improved coordination for patients with multimorbidity – A collaborative European approach on integrated care
About 65% of people aged over 65 years may be affected by multimorbidity – the cooccurrence of two or more chronic conditions. It can affect younger people too.
Current process-based and siloed care systems are designed to focus efficiently on each health issue individually. The result is that people with multimorbidity (PMM) find themselves going to an unnecessary number of doctor visits with regularly overlapping agendas and activities. This is costly and reduces the quality of the care provided.
The Integrated Care approach centres around person-centred, equitable, efficient, safe and coordinated care. The approach is proactive in supporting PMM to address both their health and social care needs. Symptoms based on complex illnesses interacting can then be planned for and treated holistically.
The CareMatrix buyers’ group, an European consortium of public health organizations from Sweden, Norway, and Spain, supports solution providers financially and in a structured co-design process, to develop technologies that anticipate and adapt to the changing needs of PMM by ensuring timely service access, co-managed care journeys and transitions between specialties and sectors.
Multimorbidity as a context for integrated care: why is this important?
v/Lisbeth Sommervoll, CEO, Vestre Viken HF
Implementation and organization of care around PMM
v/Iñaki Gutierrez-Ibarluzea, Director of Health Research, Innovation and Evaluation, Ministry for Health of the Basque Government
Pre-commercial procurement of digital solutions
v/Kristine Kleivi Sahlberg, Head of Research and Innovation, Vestre Viken & Magnus Wallengren, CareMatrix Project Coordinator, Innovation Skåne
To improve care for people with multimorbidity: Lessons learned from the CareMatrix EU project.
- Demonstration 1 of developed solution: INCA
Laura Martín Colet, Project Manager, Doole Health - Demonstration 2 of developed solution: HOPE-CMX
Nina Sellberg, CEO & Co-founder, ADDI Medical AB
Integrated care going forward – Panel Discussion with interactive interview:
- Iñaki Gutierrez-Ibarluzea (Ministry for Health of the Basque Government)
- Marit Smith Marstrander (Vestre Viken)
- Magnus Torstensson (Region Skåne)
Moderator: Magnus Wallengren, CareMatrix
This session is in cooperation with CareMatrix PCP, an EU-funded project under the Horizon 2020 program (grant agreement No 964370).
