17.C. Workshop: I-Care Lab: Puglia scaling up in integrated care for the future of digital health and social system
Authors:   Organised by: AReSS Puglia (Italy) Chair person: Giovanni Gorgoni - Italy
Published: October 2020

Abstract

Background
Healthcare systems around the world are under great pressure to drive forward transformation in order to meet the evolving needs of their populations. Ageing and chronicity are the main challenges to be tackled. In many countries care is too often fragmented and has clear deficiencies in quality, inducing low responsiveness of the healthcare system and low satisfaction with healthcare services. To address these challenges, the transformation towards integrated care has the potential to address deficiencies in order to obtain accessible, quality, effective and sustainable health care.

Objectives
The objectives of this workshop are to present 3 innovative projects undertaken by Puglia Region, by means of its Strategic Regional Agency for Health and Social Care AReSS, within the framework of the I-CARE LAB, a think tank and beta site for integrated care focused on the production of evidence-based knowledge and systematic approaches to exploitation and scaling up of good practices. The workshop will present the results of the research that has taken place around the above-mentioned projects and to gather feedback from the participants on their opinions and perspectives about integrate care models, policies, tools and practices.

Results
The featured projects are based on the collaboration with national and international partners interested in developing tools and approaches to stimulate changes towards more sustainable health and care systems, and in supporting scalability and transferability of good practices in Europe. The knowledge transfer among these institutions represents the added value that can establish a common language and framework of integrated care. The showcased projects focus on vulnerable populations for which integrated care might be most beneficial, e.g., chronically ill, frail elderly, and multi-morbid persons; the projects have identified and described an impressive number of promising practices; there are several plans to evaluate these in the coming years, and other plans to facilitate the wider-spread implementation and scaling up of such programs. During this session, 3 of such projects will present their findings, approaches and connections: SCIROCCO Exchange (assessment of integrated care interventions), FooDia-NET (patient engagement and literacy), EURIPHI (innovation procurement).

Conclusions
The workshop will be a 90-minute session with 3 presentations with ample time for audience interaction (30-minutes). Three individual members of the above-mentioned projects will be responsible for conducting the workshop (the chair, and 3 people making 3 presentations). The session will be chaired by the AReSS Puglia CEO, who will introduce the workshop. A set of presentations will follow, covering the different session topics corresponded to the 3 projects of the Puglia I-Care Lab. Participants will be asked to actively join in the discussion on the further projects enhancement.

Key messages
The first impact of the proposed workshop consists of stimulating knowledge and discussion about emerging tools and approaches in Europe towards more sustainable health and care systems. The second expected impact is to create awareness and to support scalability and transferability of good practices in Europe and abroad.