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CareCardia: holistic management of patients with heart failure
Keywords: Heart Failure, Patient Empowerment
Owner
Consortium of developers led by Gnomon Informatics SA (Greece)
Link
Type
Digital solution and service (e.g. application/digital health portal/platform/AI based system/etc.)
Short description
CareCardia is a digitally-enabled solution for empowerment and self-management for patients with Heart Failure. The platform provides a mobile app for the patient, and a web app and mobile app for the health professionals. Informal caregivers are also involved through a mobile app. This solution provides tools for the self-management of the patient. It also endorses the collaboration between clinicians and patients by providing remote monitoring tools for the health providers.
Evidence
Impact on health outcomes, Impact on the health system’s capacity and resilience (e.g., health and care efficiency, continuity of care)
Impact on health outcomes: achieved through tools that are provided by the solution, such as PREMs/PROMs questionnaires Impact on the health system’s capacity and resilience: avoid pointless visits to the hospital, deliver a digital discharge summary that contributes to a more easy follow up and remote monitoring Contribution to citizen empowerment : Patient empowerment and self-management for heart failure
Maturity
Proof of concept is available: it works in a test setting and the potential end-users are positive about the concept
As of March 2023, CareCardia is being developed as a prototype as part of the pre-commercial procurement project INCAREHEART and is being tested with several healthcare providers.
Countries
Greece
Italy
Portugal
Sweden
Türkiye
Italy
Portugal
Sweden
Türkiye
Geographical scope
European
CareCardia is built on eHealthPass by Gnomon. Its main characteristic is interoperability, supporting all cross-border scenarios. The solution is scalable and extendable. It can be re-used in the future and customized according to each country characteristics and needs, but also dedicated to other chronic diseases or situations, such as dementia.
Language(s)
English, Turkish, Italian, Swedish, Portuguese, Greek
Comment
5 sites (Greece, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Sweden). If CareCardia proceeds to phase 3 of the INCAREHEART project, it will be tested in pilots in the five countries with30 – 50 patients per pilot (150 – 250 patients totally), and also a smaller number of healthcare providers and informal caregivers.
Submitted in other database or repository of digital health resources that is publicly available
No
Additional information
Relations
to clinicians / care practitioners
Clinical decision support
Health data analytics (Artificial Intelligence/algorithm development and calibration/machine learning/risk stratification tools/etc.)
Care pathway tracking and adherence
Clinical team care planning and collaboration tools (e.g. digital shared care plan)
Alerting systems for abnormal test results
ICT support for management of frailty and/or falls prevention
Regional and national Electronic Health Record systems
Regional/national/local Integrated Care Record systems
Health data analytics (Artificial Intelligence/algorithm development and calibration/machine learning/risk stratification tools/etc.)
Care pathway tracking and adherence
Clinical team care planning and collaboration tools (e.g. digital shared care plan)
Alerting systems for abnormal test results
ICT support for management of frailty and/or falls prevention
Regional and national Electronic Health Record systems
Regional/national/local Integrated Care Record systems
to patients / citizens
Remote monitoring apps/health outcomes tracking
Sensors/wearable devices
Telehealth and telemedicine
Personalised prevention apps
Health promotion and wellness apps and wearables/virtual coaches
Health data analytics (Artificial Intelligence/algorithm development and calibration/machine learning/risk stratification tools/etc.)
Digital tools to support health education (health literacy)/digital health literacy
Reminders/alerts
Digital tools to support patient feedback and reporting of outcomes and experiences
Self-management/ICT supporting adherence to medication and care-plans
Other (please define below)
Sensors/wearable devices
Telehealth and telemedicine
Personalised prevention apps
Health promotion and wellness apps and wearables/virtual coaches
Health data analytics (Artificial Intelligence/algorithm development and calibration/machine learning/risk stratification tools/etc.)
Digital tools to support health education (health literacy)/digital health literacy
Reminders/alerts
Digital tools to support patient feedback and reporting of outcomes and experiences
Self-management/ICT supporting adherence to medication and care-plans
Other (please define below)
More info can be found here: https://carecardia.com/ or asked on demand
Primary target patient group (age)
May be used across all patient ages
Addressed prevention area(s)
Nutrition and diet, Fitness and physical activity, Education
More information can be found here: https://carecardia.com/ or asked on demand
Use case and care pathway positioning
Treatment, Disease monitoring, treatment compliance, self-management, Early detection and early diagnosis, precision diagnosis, Integrated care pathways, Patient or citizen communities, self-help and mentoring, Reuse of data for research
It can be deployed either by a centralised cloud installation or a local installation at each premises.
Ready to be transferred to
Ready for transfer, but the practice has not been transferred yet.
Plans for cross-border implementation
Are considered and will be developed in the near future
Connectivity of the solution with regional and/or national services
It can be deployed either by a centralised cloud installation or a local installation at each premises.