Everis develops the collaborative ICT environment for the Polycare telecare project for the elderly

The consultancy will develop part of this collaborative environment using wearable devices for measuring vital signs and intelligent tools for alert management., notifications about interactions in medication taking and decision making by medical professionals.

The Polycare project, financed by the European Commission with an amount that amounts to 4,5 million euros, aims to create an ICT ecosystem that allows improving home telecare and providing integrated care to older patients with chronic diseases in acute phases.

The European consortium in charge of carrying out this project is made up of entities from several countries. (Spain, Germany,France and Portugal) and is led by the consulting firm everis.

As coordinator and technological partner of the project, everis will develop part of the collaborative ICT environment, based on the use of wearable devices for measuring vital signs and intelligent tools for alert management, notifications about interactions in medication taking and decision making by medical professionals.

In addition, The project includes the development of mobile and TV applications for patients and caregivers, generating a multiplatform that guarantees the care and monitoring of the elderly.

Pilot projects: Barbastro Hospital

The objective of the project, three years long, is to achieve an improvement in the quality of care, facilitating better conditions for patients and their families, reducing the number of days of hospitalization per patient and, therefore, los costes para el Sistema Público de Salud, in the case of a group with an exponential increase such as that of older people with chronic diseases.

To test the application of the system in a real environment, three parallel pilots will be carried out in Spain., Germany and France for a year and a half, with different healthcare models and at different degrees of progress in telecare, lo que permitirá ajustar el modelo a las necesidades reales de cada una de las ubicaciones geográficas en las que se llevará a cabo el proyecto.

In the case of Spain, The pilot will take place in the Somontano region (Huesca) and will be led by the Barbastro Hospital, hospital center managed by the Aragonese Health Service, which has important references in telecare and integrated care, and will have the participation of social services technicians from the area.

To ensure the deployment, A methodology of action will be defined among all the agents involved in patient care. (health professionals, caregivers, the patient himself) that will be adapted to the different realities of the functioning of health and social services in the countries participating in the project.