How to transform healthcare systems to provide digitally enabled integrated care: key messages from a real experience

Short introduction: The implementation of digitally enabled, integrated, and personalized care interventions face challenges that require tailored solutions and resilient teams.

This workshop presents these challenges structured under different topics, as well as the adaptations that the ADLIFE project has developed.

The main solutions applied along the project will be presented from the perspective of pilot sites belonging to different healthcare systems, covering a wide range of cases that will allow a fluid interaction with the audience, to explore their applicability.

Why are you conducting a workshop? ADLIFE is an EU funded project that aims to improve the quality of life of people with advanced chronic diseases by providing integrated intelligent personalised care via innovative digital solutions, which is being deployed in five countries.

During the lifetime of the project, different challenges have been identified, which have required the search for tailor-made solutions at different levels: digital technology challenges (interoperability, integration, development of prediction algorithms), regulatory and governance challenges (MDR regulation), global challenges (changes in healthcare systems capacity due to COVID), organizational challenges (strategic policy changes at the macro level).

The workshop format will help to share the knowledge obtained in ADLIFE and in other projects where digital solutions have been applied for developing integrated care solutions. The workshop will promote discussion among attendees to share insights that highlight the key elements to ensure the successful implementation of digitally enabled interventions beyond the project.

Who is it for? Policy makers, decision makers, managers, health authorities, healthcare professionals, researchers, academia, and staff working on integrated care interventions and/or digital tools.

What are you going to do?

5’- Introduction and workshop objectives (Coordination team)

15’- ADLIFE project. Aims and methodology (Coordination team)

20’- Challenges and solutions (Partners from the consortium)

40’- Thematic discussion (All)

All participants will discuss the main barriers and facilitators identified in integrated care interventions with digital tools in different health systems, related to the preparation, implementation and realization of the projects. If many participants attend the workshop, they will be divided into subgroups and after half of the time, the groups will exchange the discussion topics.

10’- Sharing of main conclusions and Take home messages (Coordination team)

How are you going to engage with the audience? The discussion will be carried out in small groups, depending on the number of attendees, and with techniques allowing the sharing of views and experiences of the participants. The app Sendsteps will be employed to get real-time feedback about the main topics at the beginning of the session, followed by dynamic groups techniques to gather opinions.

If there are people connected online to the session, visualization techniques, such as Miro, will be employed to engage them to the discussion.

How are you going to summarize the take home messages?

A summary of the main ideas will be shown, with the focus on:

-Awareness about the challenges regarding the implementation of interventions guided by digital tools.

-Main learnings from different digitally enabled projects.

-Transferable knowledge and lessons for other initiatives.