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AGEINGFIT Conferences Track 5 Nice 28-29/01/2020DELIVERY OF INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR HOME CARE BY STRENGTHENING QUADRUPLE-HELIX COOPERATION IN REGIONAL INNOVATION CHAINS

How could be used the quadruple helix approach to enrich the

innovation captured by HoCare project to boost innovation for

preventing the homecare givers’ work risks.

(33 HoCare best practices supporting innovation in 8 European regions)

Gabriela Florescu,

PhD Cyb Math, Expert SR1, Project Manager

National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics

ICI Bucharest

Romania


SOME CURRENT GENERAL OBSERVATIONS on the need of

INNOVATION for Health &Homecare workers’ activities

#1# Health&home care workers should have a standardized activity and

standard work procedures to avoid occupational risks.

#2# Periodical tests for evaluating stress degree of health& homecare

worker if activity is within an organization with established rules.

#3# In case of private services with no standardized rules for

occupational risks protection, health&home care workers are exposed to

high risk affecting their mental and physical body in an irreversible way.

#4# Having a mobile application, at hand helping the critical phase of their

work, could be an innovative solution to be considered by either the

homecare service company management or directly by the homecare

worker.

#5# Artificial intelligence offers the so called chatbot, a software acting as

a neutral assistant with many answers to health care worker’s critical

question, with no emotion in making decisions or in offering solutions to

critical scenarios.


-Current Healthcare Chatbot Applications, such as:

Your.MD (provides personalized health information and relevant

products and services); Sensely (Virtual Medical Assistant avatar

integrates AI to recommend diagnoses based on patient symptoms

using smartphone); Buoy Health (delivers personalized and more

accurate diagnoses); SafedrugBot,(helps doctor ‘s access the right

information about drug dosage, guiding the patient in the path they

must follow); Florence (personal health assistant performs the job

of what a nurse would do during a patient’s hospital); Forksy

(assists in tracking calories and healthy eating habits);

Babylon(symptom checker that offers relevant information to the

user based on symptoms cross-checked against a vast database of

diseases, to offer an appropriate solution) Woebot (deals with

depression through cognitive-behavioral therapy ) etc. ;

could help theoretically and practically the health care workers in

diminishing their occupational risks!

https://www.your.md/

http://www.sensely.com/

https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2018/09/26/three-hot-healthcare-ai-categories/

https://www.babylonhealth.com/us

https://www.woebot.io/


HoCare

innovation

ecosystem

and philosophy


Each region provided stakeholders (experts from government, ministries, health

care policy instruments owners, structural funds managing authorities,

foundations, research institutes (ITC and Geriatrics), universities of medicine,

technical universities, private homecare companies, elders associations,

healthcare insurance houses) for transnational workshops, national learning

events and high level final conference.


HoCare

Quadruple Helix

Approach

&

Stakeholders

‘interactions for regional

innovation of health &

homecare domain


INNOVATION IN HOME CARE -

BRINGING INNOVATIVE HOME

CARE SOLUTIONS QUICKER TO

THE MARKET BY USING

QUADRUPLE-HELIX APPROACH

INNOVATIONS IN HOME CARE –

GENERATING NEW SOLUTIONS

THROUGH ADDRESSING UNMET

NEEDS IDENTIFIED BY FORMAL

AND INFORMAL HEALTHCARE

PROVIDERSINNOVATIONS IN HOME CARE –

GENERATING NEW SOLUTIONS

THROUGH PUBLIC DRIVEN

INITIATIVES


GENERATING NEW SOLUTIONS THROUGH ADDRESSING UNMET

NEEDS IDENTIFIED BY FORMAL AND INFORMAL HEALTHCARE

PROVIDERS 1 InTraMed-C2C

2 ATHealth Centre

3 Digital inclusion and active ageing

4 Elderly-friendly housing model

5 Gurulo workshops and logistics networks

6 Webnurse

7 CarerSupport

8 Tele-Rehabilitation

9 DITIS

10 GRACE

11 RehabNet

12 AHA


GENERATING NEW SOLUTIONS THROUGH PUBLIC DRIVEN

INITIATIVES 1 Meta

2 Menta

3 Virtual health centre

4 Growth of the quality of medical services in rural areas using a telemedicine

5 Bonification of projects´ evaluation targeting societal challenges including

Health, Demographic changes and Wellbeing

6 Evaluation bonus for addressing horizontal priority “Health for all”

7 Tele-hippocrates

8 Gamma M-doctor

9 Check Point Cardio

10 Multisensory gymnasium

11 Beacons

12 SPERO – social communication platform for seniors


Each region proposed an ACTION PLAN to improve the policy

instruments sustaining innovation based on transnational learning

process, exchange of good practices in health and homecare

considering the national and European context generated by health

strategies.

BRINGING INNOVATIVE HOME CARE SOLUTIONS QUICKER TO THE

MARKET1.AHA

2.RehabNet

3.European Network for FALL Prevention, Intervention &Security

4.EkoSMART

5.OLDES

6.GRACE

7.Psiprof


Romanian region has selected 8 GP for sustaining innovation in its ACTION PLAN

1) InTraMed-C2C - gathering and transferring innovation ideas from formal

healthcare providers and their various employees to SMEs via innovation

workshops, pilot projects and medical innovation database (CZ)

2) Multisensory gymnasium(PT)

3) PSIprof - web platform taking into account 4 helix needs. (PT)

4) OLDES ICT platform development for very low cost and easy entertainment

and health care service in the home of older people (CZ)

5) AHA Good practice of robotic assistance technology (PT)

6) Tele-Rehabilitation with user/citizen helix actors being engaged to public

initiated project in telemedicine through user - centered design to help define

real patient needs (CY)

7) Bonification of projects´ evaluation targeting societal challenges including

Health, Demographic changes and Well-being (PT)

8) Evaluation bonus for addressing horizontal priority “Health for all” (LT)


Exemple - Romanian ACTION PLAN for improving the policy instrument

sustaining innovation in homecare and healthcareA1 Quadruple Helix approach under Competitiveness Operational Programme

(COP) (QH) 3 tasks

A11 Identification of the way how the COP and other OP (addressing education) could

be used jointly for new call of projects addressing the topic education for health/home

care and health/home care.

A12 Analysing the potentiality of GP on Quadruple Helix for Romania

A13 Building a viable quadruple helix for Bucharest city or other city or locality

functional for COP.

A2 Transferring and extending good practice projects to be developed by

regional stakeholders consortium for and within COP(TGP) 3 tasks

A21. Consideration of GPs in details and observation of legal aspects for the

transferability as well as the cost. Searching alternatives of the topic addressed.

A22. Identification of in the topics and building potential consortium for projects.

A23 Identification of calls suitable for SMEs and Research Units to apply for projects

under the Home Care topic


CONCLUSIONS#1# Innovation in health and home care is a global need, part of each country

national health strategy with the man as central beneficiary

#2# Health care solutions assisting entirely a health care system could be

selected from the wide range of results obtained by R&D&I systems in

interraction with SMEs using a limited number of compatible criteria for each

users’segment of the system avoiding the waste of research effort.

#3# In Europe, the policy instrument sustaining innovation in homecare and

healthcare through structural funds, operational programs, could very well

contribute to finance the need in projects with healthcare and home care

innovative solutions patient or medical staff’s issues. However, the

bureaucratic system for this funding made this opportunity non - attractive for

stakeholders in 2014-2020. Let’s be optimistic for 2021-2027 and use the

quadruple helix approach!

#4# The innovative solutions should be also sustained by business models so

that health and home care system, currently underfinanced, be profitable for all

workers in health and homecare system as well as for providers.


Thank you

Acknowledgement:

Author’s participation is supported by AgeingFit organizers and by Interreg Europe

Grant PGI 01388 HoCare PP4 within communication and action plan activities -

interregeurope.eu/hocare

Gabriela Florescu

Project Partner Manager Hocare

National Institute for Research and

Development in Informatics, ICI Bucharest,

Romania

Email [email protected]

Mobile +40747853167

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