The ValueCare Experience: Healthcare Services that create value to the patient, the informal carers and the Health System

The H2020 funded research project ValueCare has concluded after 5 years of creation, innovation and cooperation. What is left behind, the legacy of the project, is manyfold. A new model of healthcare delivery based on the value that is created for the patients and supported by ITC in 7 pilots and older people with chronic conditions, a training programm on […]

New IoT devices for the MARISSA Study participants!

Important Announcement! Another milestone has been achieved, another step towards success in the #MARISSA study. We are thrilled that in the next few days, the first batch of IoT devices (body composition analyzer and smartwatch) will be received from #VIDAVO and shortly after, the clinical and research teams from  Ιατρική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ / NKUA Medical School and #allianceforintegratedcare will  start training the […]

MARISSA (ΜAnaging eldeRly dIabetes and aSsociated Sarcopenia heAlth) Project been awarded to AfIC

AfIC together with VIDAVO S.A. and the University of Athens Medical School, participate, from December the 1st, 2023 and for 10 months, in an exciting trip, towards active and healthy aging for older people with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Sarcopenic Obesity. We have been successful with our proposal MARISSA (MAnaging eldeRly dIabetes and aSsociated Sarcopenia heAlth) and we have […]

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

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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

  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 […]

The future of HealthCare is Digital!

What holds the digital future for healthcare? Will healt professionals coordinate healthcare services through mobile-apps? app; What cybersecurity issues will emerge in healthcare ecoosystems in the cloud, at hospitals and smart home settings: How will Deep Learning/Reinforced Learing help in Cancer prevention, diagnosis, therapy and follow up? and what does the Greek NHS do to survive in the absolutely digital […]