Description
“The Integral Management of Assistance Processes for Chronic Conditions” (GIPA) is a PROFIT project co-financed by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce.
Its main objective is the design, development and assessment of a system that, by using ICT, will provide integral and integrated management of systems of care in the home, within the framework of the Spanish health system, involving professionals from primary, specialised and hospital health care.
With this, the aim is:
- To support and facilitate the adoption of a new model of attention and care for chronic conditions, reinforcing the role of primary health care and including the patient and his environment as active factors.
- To quantify the expected improvement in the care processes by the development of a pre-commercial prototype and its testing in an real controlled environment.
The project is being carried out by ITACA-TSB and Department 7 of the Valencia Community Health Service, involving the Home Care Unit of the Universitary Hospital La Fe in Valencia and also specialist and primary care centres associated with this hospital.
Department 7 will be responsible for the assessment, while TSB is responsible for developing a compatible platform to be integrated with the existing information systems. The platform will be composed of PCs, Tablet PCs, PDAs and telemonitoring equipment, to be used by medical personnel both in hospitals and homes and also by the patients themselves.
GIPA provides the solution to the problem of chronic illnesses, focusing on the patient and using the support of ICT to achieve the integration of the whole range of health services, changing working processes under the supervision of medical staff.
The principal elements composing the GIPA system are: the module for development of clinical practices and care plans, the activities and resource management module, the user support module, and an IP Response Medical Centre. This latter module consists of a call centre which automatically and randomly records monitored data and incidents from all patients. Since all the information is collected at one single point, actions are simpler and management is more efficient, especially when, for example, an emergency has to be dealt with due to monitored data outside the acceptable range.
Documents
Ficha Gipa
Descripción del proyecto GIPA.
Autor
Tecnologías para la Salud y el Bienestar.
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