Category: Horizon 2020

Technical support to the City of Palaio Faliro for the H2020 Project, Smart Bear

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AfIC provides technical support to the pilot city of Palaio Faliro for implementation of the H2020 digital heath project, Smart Bear, #SMARTBEAR. SMART BEAR (https://www.smart-bear.eu/), SMART BEAR will deliver a solution offering: – Continuous and objective monitoring and interventions for 21st century precise and personalised medicine towards optimising disease and associated risks’ management – Measurable improvements to the Quality of […]

Implementation of a Value Based Health Care model in senior, independent living patients, with Hypertension and T2DM

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Would’ it be more fair for health care users, health care professionals and the Health System itself, to implement integrated health care service reimbursement models , based on the improvement of outcomes that matter most to patients, such as quality of life, self efficacy in self management of chronic conditions and so on? In the current edition of BMC Geriatrics, […]

Focus Group with Informal Caregivers of Patients with Type II Diabetes and Hypertension for the H2020 Project ValueCare

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A focus group with informal caregivers of elderly patients with Type II Diabetes and Hypertension was conducted online. The ValueCare model and the digital solution were discussed and challenges were identified. The main challenges that the project will encounter in the Athens pilot, are the digital illiteracy of older old adults and the unwillingness and lack of motivation they will […]

The Athens ValueCare Project Pilot in ICIC2022, Odense, Denmark

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At #Odense in Denmark…#ICIC2022, we presented the H2020 project #ValueCare to academics, clinicians and researchers from all over Europe. The clock is ticking backwards for the first patient with Diabetes and Hypertension to register with the ValueCare approach and the research team of Athens Medical Center, #ΌμιλοςΙατρικούΑθηνών. For more information, you can visit the project website, https://projectvaluecare.eu/ or you can […]

Presentation of the VALUECARE H2020 project in the MedTech Conference 2021

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The challenges in management of medical devices will be the focus of MedTech Conference 2021, which will totally virtual through the innovative platform LiveOn.The president of AfIC, Mr. Anastasios Rentoumis will be one of the presenters and will present the innovative H2020 project VALUECARE.  VALUECARE is focusing on the design, implementation and evaluation of personalized, integrated care services for seniors […]

Online presentation of the ValueCare project in the EU CITIZEN ACCELERATOR – ACTIVE AND HEALTHY OVER 65 at Trieste, Italy

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  On October the 16th, 2021, Mr. Anastasios Rentoumis, the president of AfIC will present online the H2020 project, VALUECARE, taking place at Trieste Citizen Accelerator, SESSION B “Experiences of connection with the territory for the solution of the phenomena of isolation: the integrated network – The role of ICT in active and healthy ageing”, at 11:10 a.m. CET.  In […]

Focus Groups with Health and Social Care Professionals for VALUECARE

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Health and Social Care professionals have so many important things to say for the improvement of integrated care serviced for older people with Daibetes Mellitus and hypertension using mobile health solutions! We are grateful for their insight and wisdom, and for participating in our  #FocusGroups towards designing the #Valuecare mobile app. We all wish this is a new, exciting, useful […]

ValueCare Project Animation Video Clip

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AfIC, has created an animation video clip for the H2020 project ValueCare. In Athens, and at the Municipality of Palaio Faliro, the target group for the ValueCare project is older adult patients over the age of 65 (and their informal caregivers), suffering from Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and living independently in the community after hospitalization. This pilot will use both […]

Call for applications – Advisory Board Members ValueCare Project H2020

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The ValueCare Consortium is currently looking for seven members to join the External Advisory Board. The project is funded under the HORIZON 2020 programme of the European Commission.For more information please go to https://projectvaluecare.eu/news/call-for-applications-advisory-board-members-valuecare/ All members receive a fee for the services provided, travel and subsistence expenses for member meetings are also covered. The ValueCare project aims to deliver efficient […]