Telemedicine implementation, evidence-based decisions making

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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

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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

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

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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

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Proposed Objective 1.1 ICT 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

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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

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eHealth?

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• Research sitehttp//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/hom
  e_en.html
• Thank you francica-rosario.garcia-lizana_at_ec.euro
  pa.eu