Older people often need services from both social care and healthcare professionals, such as support with activities of daily living and support in managing chronic conditions.
For various reasons, these services are today usually delivered independently. For care professionals this can lead to quite practical difficulties, e.g. if important patient information are available only at one provider but not at another, or if double or adverse treatments occur. As a consequence, the quality and efficiency of care provision can decrease as well as the quality of life and health status of the patient. In the worst case, uncoordinated care provision can lead to premature death.
CommonWell delivers ICT-based integrated services in four countries to demonstrate and provide evidence on how an efficient, integrated provision of social care and healthcare can be achieved.
CommonWell is of interest to professionals in social care and healthcare provision, as well as their professional associations. In the pilot services at the sites in the four CommonWell countries, the following professionals are involved:
The exact benefits depend on the different types of services CommonWell implements. Please see the use case section and the description of the four pilot sites for details.
In general terms, the key benefits of CommonWell for care professionals are:
The CommonWell services will be piloted at sites in four European countries. An evaluation will be carried out in order to analyse the costs and outcomes. Please see Pilots and evaluation for more details.
If you want to learn more about CommonWell, you can also contact the project consortium. We will be happy to help.