CommonWell for providers and other decision makers

Today, healthcare and social care services are usually delivered independently. This leads to inefficiencies, duplication of resources, and potentially to low levels of quality of care and life, in the worst case to premature death. Older people are particularly affected by this situation, since they often need both types of services, such as support with daily living activities and chronic disease management. At the same time, the potential of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to support integrated service delivery remains largely unexploited.

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. The total cost of CommonWell is some € 5,360,000, half of which is funded by the European Commission within the CIP ICT Policy Support Programme (Grant agreement no. 225005) while the other half is born by project partners.

For which care providers and other decision makers is CommonWell of interest?

Through its services, the field trials and the evaluation, CommonWell is of interested to all providers and other decision makers that are looking for solutions for ICT-based integrated service provision and for evidence on cost, benefits and impacts.

CommonWell is of particular relevance for

• Healthcare providers
• Social care providers
• Policy makers in health and social politics and related areas
• Decision makers from health and social insurances and other bodies with reimbursement responsibility

What are the key benefits of CommonWell?

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 are:

• Better quality of social and health care services
• Increased efficiency in the provision of social and health care services
• Increased efficiency in the exchange of patient data between social and health care professionals
• Single point of access for and more targeted responses to patient requests
• Better understanding of costs and benefits of ICT-based integrated provision of social and health care services

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.