Updated: Feb 1, 97
EPIC

European Prototype for Integrated Care

Project Code: A2007 Project value: 3749 KECU EC contribution: 1880 KECU No of partners: 9 No of countries: 9 Duration: 36 months

Contact Dr Leslie Boydell, SEBHSS Trust, European Office Knockbracken Healthcare Park Saintfield Road, Belfast Northern Ireland, U.K. Tel.: +44-232-40.22.02 Fax: +44-232-40.21.21

For the past decade health care across Europe has been dominated by concerns about cost containment and efficiency resulting in increasing emphasis on cost effectiveness of care. Among other things this has stimulated a shift away from centralised and institutional care towards care in the community. To support the shift from centralised and institutional care towards community care, EPIC studies an integrated primary care solution, and provided a pilot for an integrated local health care system, based on telematic services.

The three main component of EPIC are: the architecture, which facilitates the sharing of information between health and social care workers; the home based telecare, integrating home safety alarms, blood pressure and ECG monitoring; and a common core assessment for use with elderly in primary care.

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