eHealth Hub Solution Match Call: Hospital Bernal is Looking for a Digital Health Solution

Hospital Bernal (Spain) is looking for a digital health solution to remotely monitor low-complexity chronic patients from their homes. Those patients are typically elderly people, physically and mentally well enough to live alone at home but presenting one or several chronic conditions that would require regular or continuous monitoring. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) and diabetes are the most common conditions among these patients that Hospital Bernal would like to monitor.

The IT solution should take into consideration the following:

• It should be able to monitor those three conditions - concurrently or separately. It should be able to collect patients’ relevant vitals and health data and share them in real time with the hospital. The frequency of the data collection will depend on the clinical protocol prescribed by the hospital staff for each patient.
• A 24/7 assistance service will be setup at the hospital, where qualified medical staff will receive and analyse the data, and take action when needed.
• The hospital is looking for an end-to-end solution that includes not only the monitoring sensors for patients but also the hardware and software to manage and analyse the data in the hospital (screens, tablets).
• It should include a patient management dashboard with an alarm system to alert clinical staff when a patient requires attention. The more added value the solution can provide to facilitate and optimize monitoring (especially for hospital staff), the better
• The hospital is looking for an end-to-end solution, providing not only the monitoring sensors for patients but also the hardware (screens, tablets) and software to manage and analyse the data by hospital staff. It should include a patient management dashboard with an alarm system to alert clinical staff when something is wrong with one of their patients. The more added value the software can provide to facilitate and optimize monitoring (especially for hospital staff), the better.
• The solution does not need to integrate with the hospital EHR system.
• The user interface needs to be available in Spanish.
• The family and extended care community of the patients should be included in the loop of information exchanges. This is particularly important as patients or their relatives would be the ones paying for the service directly.
• The communication system needs to engage the extended care team, including families:
  • Hospital staff should be able to communicate and share information with patients and their families.
  • Patients and their families should be able to communicate and send information to hospital staff and care teams.
  • Families should be able to communicate directly with the patients and easily check on them without necessarily having to use the phone.
• Ideally the solution should also promote healthy habits for the patients (nutrition, exercise, memory training, etc)

Application deadline: 16 February 2017.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.ehealth-hub.eu/solution-match.html

About Hospital Bernal
Hospital Bernal is a private general hospital located in the Region of Murcia (Spain) which serves a population of approximately 70,000 inhabitants, out of which 13,500 are older than 65. The hospital has 40 beds, outpatient consultations, surgical theatres, a physiotherapy services area and a staff of 43 including doctors, nurses, clinical assistants and other non- medical employees. Although privately owned, Hospital Bernal has an agreement with the Murcia Regional Health Service that represents 90% of its activity. Hospital Bernal wants to change its customer mix to be less dependant on a single customer: the incoming patients. The hospital management sees a diversification opportunity in the growing aging population that requires home care, and would like to offer them new services supported by technology. The objective is to keep patients at home whenever possible instead of sending them to nursing facilities, while family and relatives stay confident that their loved ones are properly monitored.

About eHealth HUB project
During the 3-years' project, eHealth Hub team that includes European innovation specialists, legal and regulatory experts and eHealth support organizations will involve over 700 SMEs in its activities, developing several partnerships with major European and international eHealth networks, healthcare organizations, investors and other stakeholders. Another ambition of the eHealth Hub project is also to contribute, through its support to SMEs to increase the number of eHealth solutions available in the market for patients and citizens, optimizing at the same time efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare provision, personalized medicine and consumer health across Europe.

eHealth Hub project is a project financed by the European Union through the Horizon 2020 Framework Program (Societal Challenge 1 "Health, demographic change and wellbeing").

Project partners: TICBIOMED (Coordinator); APRE, Italy; EDITO, France; engage AG, Germany; inno TSD, France; META Group, Italy; Queen Many University of London, United Kingdom; Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum, Germany; University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.