THE CHALLENGE:
There are approximately 50 million patients in Europe with multimorbidity (two or more chronic health conditions) and 70-80% of healthcare costs are spent on management of chronic disease, at a cost of €700 billion per annum in the EU.
Most models of care focus on a single disease approach to treatment and care, which is not always adaptive to the needs of multimorbid patients as such there is a need to improve best practice around the provision of well-coordinated, person-centred care for multimorbidity, and to empower patients and their caregivers to play an active role in self-management and care practices.
THE SOLUTION: ProACT
ProACT is a citizen driven, self-management orientated, digital integrated care system capable of supporting multiple disease management and associated co-morbidities including well-being parameters (e.g. mobility and sleep) on a single user mobile application. The platform provides a unified approach to integrated care, centred on the person living with multimorbidity at home supported by key actors (informal caregivers, formal/social care workers, community-based clinicians, pharmacists and hospital-based clinicians).
For users ProACT collects and analyses data from individuals via the home-based health and well-being support kit (e.g. wearable and medical devices) and links them to their relevant care network support actors (e.g. family, caregivers, health professionals) via the suite of CareApps. The intelligent decision-making support from data collected between the persons managing their health and wellbeing and their support network increases the capacity to inform home based self-care by directing relevant information, support services and support actors to; improve the ability of individuals and services to understand from feedback data the best delivery of care; provide 24/7 real time feedback to individuals, key support actors and services; provide information on the individual at home and in the community.
Initially the system has been designed to target diabetes, heart disease, chronic heart failure and COPD; with the potential to be further developed post-project to address other chronic diseases across various age groups.
