JADECARE

EHMA 2023: Health management: sustainable solutions for complex systems
2023-06-05 - 2023-06-07 | Rome, Italy
The European Health Management Association (EHMA) and ALTEMS – Advanced School of Health Economics and Management, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, will co-host the 28th edition of the EHMA Annual Conference on 5-7 June 2023 in Rome, Italy under the headline ‘Health management: sustainable solutions for complex systems’. During the three-day programme of this event, opportunities, best practices and innovations for continuously evolving health systems will be addressed. Participants will be supported to propose innovative solutions for sustainable and resilient health systems and facilitate exchange and discussion on complex issues.
JADECARE has been accepted for hosting a workshop at EHMA 2023 conference for presenting the results and impact of JADECARE that has targeted more than 4 million people at different levels: regionally, European-wide and for future health policies; and explores the key elements to support the sustainability of good practice transfer beyond the projects.
Two implementing regions will showcase their particular results of the transfer and implementation of good practices. In addition, the JADECARE Sustainability strategy will be exposed to the audience and its three core elements: policy environment, ownership of sustainability and culture of collaboration and consensus seeking. Finally, during the workshop discussion among attendees will be promoted about the crucial factors necessary to promote the continuity and scale-up of the outcomes of the transfer projects.
Learning objectives:
• Discover results and impact of the JADECARE Joint Action
• Learn about implementation process to transfer and implement best practices in heterogeneous contexts
• Discuss key elements to ensure the sustainability and scale up of practices beyond a Joint Action
The conference is structured around five tracks that reflect the practice of health management. The tracks are:

Governance, leadership and social responsibility
Management, operations and practice
Human capital, professionalism and people management
Finance and economics
Policy and regulations.

Five topics help steer the focus:

People-centred systems
Health technology and digital transformation
Workforce of the future
Sustainable and resilient health systems
Healthcare access, delivery and outcomes

Each year, EHMA invites the entire health management ecosystem for bringing together health system managers and leaders, health professionals, hospital managers, researchers, academics and policy makers. Participants reflect the diversity of EHMA’s membership, bringing rich expertise and a wealth of knowledge to the discussion on key health management issues. Together we strive for excellent health management for a healthy Europe.

HIMSS23 Europe exploring Health that Connects + Tech that Cares
2023-06-07 09:00 - 2023-06-09 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Praça das Indústrias 1, Lisbon, 1300-307, Portugal
HIMSS23 Europe, one of the most influential digital health conferences in the continent, will bring together the region’s healthcare ecosystem in Portugal at the Centro de Congressos de Lisboa from 7-9 June 2023, to explore Health that Connects + Tech that Cares.
The event will opens in Portugal with the support of the Shared Services of Ministry of Health, Portugal; Health Cluster Portugal with its 200 members from the health sector, and other national institutions such as the Portuguese Agency for Investment and External Commerce (AICEP) and the Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (IAPMEI).
We would like to confirm the participation of JADECARE in HIMSS23 in Lisbon!

Date: 8th June 2023
Session Location: Auditorium 3
Session time: 13:45 – 14:35
Speaker: Ulrik Appel, SDCN, Region North Denmark (JADECARE Next Adopter)
Topic: Digitally preventative population health
Abstract: Promotion of healthy lifestyles and the prevention of disease are the fundamental principles behind public health, and the tremendous potential of data, and digital technologies, to transform preventative care with a population health focus has never been more evident. This session will explore best practice examples from across the region, highlighting the role of data analytics and intelligent risk stratification tools in facilitating the identification of at risk, vulnerable population groups. Taking a deep dive into some inspiring examples of preventative population health interventions aiming to promote healthier citizens and lower burden of disease across health systems.

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The programme will share the very best examples of successful digital health transformation from Europe and beyond. Through an inspiring mix of keynotes, real-world case studies, discussion and Q&A, we will spread solutions to healthcare’s toughest challenges around workforce, health equity, digital maturity, sustainability, service backlogs, and more. Learn what works, what doesn’t and how you could apply this knowledge to improve health outcomes in your locality.

Digital Maturity, Data and Analytics
Innovative Care Pathways
Preventative and Population Health
Workforce Crisis Solutions
Health System Value and Sustainability

European Implementation Event EIE2023
2023-06-08 08:00 - 2023-06-09 17:00 | Basel, Switzerland, Basel, 4001, Switzerland
At the #EIE2023, Implementation – the translation, uptake and integration of research findings within the daily routines of human services – takes centre stage. Attendees will learn about latest, cutting-edge implementation science and practice; participate in inspiring and surprising discussions with international colleagues; expand your professional network; and be inspired by the diversity of this exciting discipline.

EU funded Joint Action JADECARE, aiming to assist Member States in undertaking health system reforms by supporting the transfer of four “original Good Practices” (primary care centers, hospital and community setting) to 21 “Next Adopters (NAs)” of 14 different EU countries will be hosting a workshop at EIE2023 demonstrating its implementation strategy.
The three step implementation strategy has been developed to enable the transfer process that includes a series of techniques, concrete procedures, guidance and recommendations.
The three main phases are: Pre-implementation (planning and preparation), Implementation (roll-out and operation, based on PDSA cycles) and Post-implementation (impact assessment and learning). The strategy provides a blueprint for adoption, implementation, monitoring, reporting and sustainability of successful interventions into new contexts. Furthermore, the successful use case of JADECARE sets the base to implement digitally enabled integrated care at large scale, which translates into introducing innovations in health systems that result in better health care.
Following the presentation of its strategy, JADECARE representatives will discuss two key questions with the audience:
1) How relevant is it to focus on the prior preparation of the local environment and to consider the key contextual determinants of the implementers to modulate the success of the implementation process?
2) How can a community of learning stakeholders be promoted that explores ways to develop, collect and exchange knowledge and performs concrete action for boosting and leveraging the sustainability of the implemented practices?
EIC overarching goals, also pursued at EIC2023 are to:

Be the “go to” network for knowledge and resources on European implementation science and practice.
Connect individuals, groups, networks, and organisations, reducing the implementation science – practice gap.
Actively promote equity in implementation science and practice.
Collaborate with organisations, networks, and groups outside the EIC to push forward implementation science and practice.

The European Implementation Collaborative (EIC) aims to build a connected European community of practitioners, researchers, and policy makers with contemporary implementation skills and expertise, improving the quality of life for all people.

Implementation Research Scientific Conference
2023-06-12 08:00 - 2023-06-14 17:00 | Biblioteca universitaria de Deusto, Bilbao, Calle Ramón Rubial 1, Bilbao, Basque Country, 48009, Spain
The Implementation Research Scientific Conference in Bilbao comes at a crucial juncture in which it is essential to think about how Implementation Science and practice may work together in order to facilitate the translation of evidence-based interventions into routine clinical practice aiming to increase their reach, adoption, implementation and maintenance.

JADECARE has been accepted as a presenter to this conference on “The Implementation strategy for the transfer and adoption of successfully proven good practices on digitally enabled integrated person-centred care to heterogeneous contexts”: In the framework of speeding up the adoption of integrated person-centred care solutions in Europe by improving their capacity to redesign and improve their healthcare systems, the EU funded “Joint Action on digitally enabled integrated person-centred care” intends to support the transformation of health systems by addressing the transfer and adoption of four “original Good Practices” (oGPs) to 21 settings of “Next Adopters” (NAs) from 14 European countries holding different levels of maturity of integrated care. A three-step implementation strategy has been developed for enabling the transfer of experiences and knowledge:

Pre-implementation (planning and preparation): the NAs analyzed their contexts with the SWOT analysis and identified more than 150 local needs aligned with oGPs‘ key elements (study visits organized). As a consequence, 64 interventions were defined targeting more than 4 million people.
Implementation (roll-out and operation): the NAs deployed their action plans by means of two PDSA Cycles monitored by more than 350 KPIs. In ten structured thematic workshops they exchanged their experience about the transfer process.
Post-implementation (impact assessment and learning): the NAs analyzed the implementation process through the CFIR and reported the whole experience using SQUIRE 2.0 guidelines. Moreover, the implementation strategy is assessed by NAs (end users) to evaluate its impact and usability.

JADECARE impacts on European health systems by implementing innovative digital integrated care solutions and helping to change the model of care provision. It sets the base to implement integrated care at large scale by delivering know how to transfer innovative and tailored practices and generating evidence that aspires to produce benefits beyond the project.
Implementation Research and Practice:The biggest problem that undermines the quality of our health services is not the lack of research, but rather the lack of real implementation of the knowledge that research generates. The real translation into clinical health practice of effective interventions for health promotion and prevention of chronic diseases remains an unresolved challenge in health systems worldwide. Additionally, a considerable proportion of the interventions provided to patients in the healthcare context lack solid evidence of the effectiveness. The elimination or reduction of this low-value care can lead to improvements in the quality of care and its results in terms of population health while reducing costs.

​Implementation Science seeks to address and reduce this translational gap by studying and understanding:

The political, social, behavioral, economic and organizational factors that impede the effective dissemination and implementation of clinical, public health and organizational findings based on evidence.
The identification, development and evaluation of specific strategies that allow the integration into routine clinical practice, interventions and therapies of proven efficacy that are not being applied in a generalized, sustainable and continuous way (Implementation) or promote the abandonment or substitution of ineffective or cost-ineffective practices or interventions (De-implementation).

Health Services Research UK Conference 2023
2023-07-04 - 2023-07-06 | University of Birmingham, Teaching & Learning Building | Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
The Health Services Research UK’s 16th annual conference will be held from 4 to 6 July 2023 in person at the University of Birmingham. For those who are unable to join in person, it will be offering an online option allowing access to the conference platform and on-demand content.
The conference committee is developing an exciting programme with high quality speakers from across the UK, covering key issues for the HSR community. There will be some great plenary sessions, practical and interactive workshops, HSR learning and development sessions and the opportunity as always to showcase and discuss your research.
The aging population, with the growing burden of chronic conditions and multimorbidity, is constantly increasing the demand for more comprehensive, efficient and smarter personalized care delivery based on innovative solutions. For this reason, the transformation of health systems in Europe with the design, development and implementation of innovative digital solutions, ensuring systems’ sustainability is highly needed.
In this framework, JADECARE, the EU funded “Joint Action on digitally enabled integrated person-centred care”, aims to contribute to innovative, efficient and sustainable health systems providing expertise to assist the European Countries in undertaking health system reforms. It intends to support the transformation of health systems by successfully addressing the transfer and adoption of four “original Good Practices” (oGPs) to 21 other settings of “Next Adopters” (NAs).
JADECARE involves partners from 16 European countries holding different levels of penetration, adoption and maturity of integrated care, providing a complete scenario of different idiosyncrasies. The project started on October 1st, 2020 and ends on September 30th, 2023.
The challenge of this JA is to transfer innovations that have proven to be successful to heterogeneous and complex healthcare environments by adapting the practices to be transferred to the local needs, situation, capabilities, resources, plans, strategies and current implementations of the NAs.
For this reason, great focus has been dedicated to the preparation of the local environments. During the pre-implementation phase the 21 NAs identified more than 150 needs and defined 64 interventions and action plans that will target more than 4 million inhabitants.

Health Services Research UK (HSR UK) is dedicated to the promotion of health services research in policy and practice. The annual conference is open to everyone interested in health and care services and systems research, both based in the UK and internationally, and offers you the opportunity to:

Engage with cutting-edge research. The programme is multi-disciplinary, with a wide range of research presentations and interactive workshops selected for their importance and impact, alongside plenaries from key opinion leaders in research, policy and practice.
Build your networks and hear from the agenda-setters. Throughout the three day event and on our interactive conference platform you will have the chance to build your networks across research, policy and practice communities, form new collaborations, and engage with influencers and decision makers.
Present your own research to the widest possible audience. Participants attend from universities and research institutes, research funding agencies, government, NHS and social care bodies, key peer reviewed journals, industry, consultancy, and the third sector.

Epidemiology for planning the future - Joint Portuguese-Spanish Epidemiology Congress 2023
2023-09-05 08:00 - 2023-09-08 17:00 | Porto, Portugal, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS) R. Jorge de Viterbo Ferreira 228, Porto, 4050-313, Portugal
Epidemiology for planning the future:
XLI Annual Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE) and the XVIII Congress of the Portuguese Association of Epidemiology (APE)
Preliminary Congress Programme incl. registration information
JADECARE’s accepted contribution is titled: Evaluation of the Impact of Joint Actions on Decision-Making in Public Health: A Scoping Review (Speaker: José María Castellano García, Agència de Qualitat i Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya – AQuAS)
Background/Objectives: Joint Actions (JA) are a financing instrument under the EU Health Programme that involves the participation of various member states to implement priority actions. Evaluating the impact of any initiative funded by public funds is important for accountability, but it can be challenging. The objectives of this study were to determine the approaches and impact evaluation methodologies used in JAs in public health and to identify the facilitators and obstacles to impact on public policies.
Methods: A rapid scoping review of the last 20 years was conducted, identifying a total of 19 articles on JAs in the Pubmed/Medline (n=13) and Google Scholar (n=6) databases. Additionally, the websites of finished public health JAs (n=40) from 2003 to 2022 were reviewed through the European Commission website.
Results: The results show that, in general, the articles focus more on the project results rather than its impact. The projects that show impact mostly use qualitative evaluation approaches, such as Delphi techniques, interviews with expert groups, consensus exercises, and opinions, rather than standardized quantitative data analysis and indicators. The facilitators for their impact on public policy include articles that provide clear and evidence-based results and evaluation approaches that consider the viewpoints of different stakeholders. The obstacles include less attention to the impact rather than project content, a huge variety of evaluation frameworks, and many qualitative-based approaches.
Conclusions/Recommendations: Efforts should be made to evaluate the impact of projects through data analysis and evaluation that takes into account all project stakeholders. This would allow for clearer and more precise results and ensure greater impact on public health policies.

The contribution of the JADECARE Joint Action in health systems transformation: integrated care and digitization
2023-09-12 08:30 - 14:00 | Rome, Italy
The objectives of the event are to disseminate the results of the project and foster its sustainability, through a multidisciplinary approach and the active involvement of stakeholders and experts. The first session will be devoted to presenting the project, its achievements and alignment with existing European, national and regional policies, programs and initiatives. During the second session, a representative of the good practice will illustrate how the algorithm and dashboard are being used in the Spanish health care system while the project team will present the sustainability plan to implement regionally the results achieved. These talks will provide useful insights for discussion with experts, stakeholders and participants in order to assess the potential for using the project’s products in the various areas of expertise and identify possible actions to be implemented after the end of the project. Below follows the preliminary program of the event. The event will be in Italian language.
The Marche Region, through the Regional Health Agency, is participating in the European Joint Action JADECARE, aimed at addressing the challenges of healthcare transformation in the European Union. The 3-year project involved 45 organizations from 16 European countries and is going to finish in September 2023. In this context, Marche Region implemented a good practice developed in Spain (Catalonia), focusing on chronicity management through digitalized systems. An innovative algorithm using administrative health flows to assess the health status of the Marche population and the distribution of chronic diseases has been successfully tested. The results of the algorithm will be made available through a dashboard that can explain and show the citizens’ health demand and support the planning of social and health care services. The management of chronic diseases will be promoted through integrated, person[1]centered care, allowing and efficient use of the available resources, providing the quality of care, and an improved quality of life for citizens.

Italian Final National Event on JADECARE
2023-09-20 09:30 - 13:30 | Ministry of Health, Rome, Italy
The JADECARE Joint Action on the Implementation of Digitally enabled integrated person-centred care, launched in October 2020, has engaged over the last three years to contribute to the development of more innovative, efficient and sustainable healthcare systems by providing expertise and sharing good practices that will help EU Member States to implement reforms towards digitally enabled person-centred care. In particular, it aimed to transfer some good practices on the topics of integrated, person-centred care supported by digital technologies, focusing on activities necessary to prepare and guide the so called ‘Next Adopters’ (21, from 16 European countries) to adopt moduels of the good practices, taking into account the starting situation of their own territories, their strategies and their commitment in terms of resources.
AGENAS, on the instructions of the Ministry of Health, was the Competent Authority representing Italy in the Joint Action. Co-leader of Work Package (WP) No. 4, focussing on national policy integration activities and sustainability, it was the contact site for multiple activities, also related to other work packages. Among the Italian partners, also the Ministry of Health itself participated in the JADECARE Action, with the task of contributing to the sustainability and integration of the results into national policies.
The hybrid meeting on the 20th of September 2023 has been jointly organised by the Ministry of Health and AGENAS with the aim of highlighting the final results of the project, and in particular the implementation experience of the Italian partners involved, focussing in particular on the actions that triggered a positive change in the management of person-centred and digitally enabled integrated care.

EHFG 2023 Health Systems in Crisis - Countering shockwaves and fatigue [incl. JADECARE Final Conference on 28 Sept 2023]
2023-09-26 09:00 - 2023-09-29 17:00 | Bad Gastein Conference Centre, Austria, Tauernplatz 1, Bad Gastein, 5630, Austria
Join (in person or online) the JADECARE Constituency on Thursday 28 September, 10:15 – 11:30h (session S15 in Kursaal), for the Joint Action Final Conference titled “Accelerating the Path to digitally-enabled Integrated Care – Sharing best practice for health system transformation in Joint Action JADECARE” hosted at the hybrid EHFG 2023 Conference.

Full Session programme i.e. JADECARE Final Conference Agenda
NEW: “Health systems in crisis: Countering shockwaves and fatigue (dedicated Eurohealth Journal Edition)
JADECARE Consortium Article: Accelerating the path to digitally-enabled integrated care in Europe

About the conference: Health systems in Europe were facing significant problems pre-COVID, from underfunded primary and social care to workforce shortages and inequities in access to care, while addressing growing challenges such as ageing populations and the rise in non-communicable diseases. The ensuing permacrisis – including an ongoing pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the cost-of-living crisis, and the climate emergency – have only exacerbated the situation, stretching health systems, and in particular the health and care workforce, to their limits. Many workers have lost their lives, while others have suffered fatigue, exhaustion, and burnout. Join the conference to discuss how to ride out the current shockwaves and explore how crises can help catalyse the development of new approaches to health system problems. Together, let´s co-create long-term sustainable solutions that support health and well-being!

Join us onsite or virtual and get ready to be inspired by some of the leading voices in the healthcare industry as they share their insights and expertise during the hybrid conference.
List of speakers: https://www.ehfg.org/conference/programme

If you’re passionate about exploring how crises can catalyze the development of new health system solutions, we invite you to join us! Let’s co-create long-term sustainable solutions that support health and well-being for all. 💚🤝
Full programme on the website: https://www.ehfg.org/conference/programme

JADECARE presented at the Congress of the Spanish Society for Healthcare Quality
2023-10-25 08:00 - 2023-10-27 17:00 | Centro de Congresos de la Región de Murcia “Víctor Villegas”, Avda. Primero de Mayo, Murcia, Murcia, 30006, Spain
In times of economic, climatic and social instability and insecurity, this congress aims to provide an opportunity to reflect on the role of healthcare quality as a key factor in the transformation of the healthcare system towards more sustainable models.
The theme of this edition, “Quality of care, a pillar of sustainability“, encourages the exchange of experiences and the generation of new ideas that pave the way for the spread of improvement initiatives that have a direct impact on the quality of healthcare and on the safety, effectiveness and efficiency of the health system itself.
Event home page: https://calidadasistencial.es/xxxix-congreso-seca-programa/
Full programme [PDF]
The abstract “Implementation of digitally enabled integrated person-centred care solutions – JADECARE” submitted by Yhasmine Hamu and Ane Fullaondo on behalf of the JADECARE Consortium has been accepted. JADECARE will be presented at the Best Communications’ Round Table of its category: Gestión de la calidad / Quality management, scheduled for Friday 27 October at 9:00 CET (ID17600 Implementación de soluciones asistenciales integradas centradas en la persona y habilitadas digitalmente –Implementing integrated person-centred and digitally enabled care solutions – JADECARE).

16th European Public Health Conference 2023: Our Food, Our Health, Our Earth: A Sustainable Future for Humanity
2023-11-08 - 2023-11-11 | Convention Centre Dublin, Spencer Dock, N Wall Quay, North Dock, Dublin 1, Dublin, D01 T1W6, Ireland
Our Food, Our Health, Our Earth : A Sustainable Future for Humanity
Over the next decade we will all make choices which will determine the future of our advanced technological society. The COVID-19 and monkeypox pandemics, through which the world is now living, are as graphic an example as could be desired of the instability of our model of life, and the need for action on One Health. In Europe, we have paid a high price for our belief that we were safe from infection, that we could dismantle our public health systems, and get away with it. Other countries to whom COVID-19 spread from Europe have suffered more, and paid even higher prices.
We have now run out of road on climate emergency. 2021 was the warmest year on record, and 2022 and 2023 are likely to beat that record. The global climate is changing rapidly. Building a future, any kind of future, for us and for our children, demands a new attention to sustainability. It’s tempting to despair, to give up. Let’s not.
This conference hopes to open up part of this discussion, with a focus on health, and health care. We will look specifically at gender and health, at health care delivery generally, the use of digital tools, and the necessary staffing and skills to provide good care. We will, in line with the overall conference theme, look in depth at the climate emergency, and very specifically at the human food supply. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine poses serious risks to global food security that will require a range of responses from governments and international organizations. The unfolding crisis in Ukraine will push up already-high food price inflation, and have serious consequences for low-income net-food importing countries, many of which have seen an increase in malnourishment rates over the past few years in the face of pandemic disruptions. The Ukraine conflict not only exposes the evil of the current Russian government, but also our failure to create a resilient sustainable global food supply. We can do better, and we have to do better.
We look forward to seeing you all in person, in Dublin. Dublin is well known as a literary city, but our long history of public health in Ireland is less well known. These two elements of our history intersect strikingly in one man, William Wilde, society doctor, hospital founder, apprentice to Abraham Colles, husband to Jane Elgee, herself better known as ‘Speranza’, the poet of revolution, father to Oscar Wilde, who needs no introduction, and Willy, an alcoholic and a journalist. Sir William, as he became, wrote extensively on eye surgery, Irish antiquities, Irish folklore, and on the health of the Irish population. You may yet have a chance to discover his city, in all its brightness and darkness, as well as learning something more about making and sustaining our futures.
Themes of the 2023 Conference in detail: The conference will highlight and debate all areas of public health research, practice, policy and education with a focus on these subjects:

One Health: health threats to people, animals and ecosystems.
Tackling infectious diseases, preparing for the next pandemic
Food security, sustainable production and improving nutrition
Global health and Europe’s role in global health
Achieving universal health coverage (UHC): reducing health inequity
Chronic diseases
Climate emergency / Environment and health / Urban health
Digital health and communication
Epidemiology
Ethics and Law
Health assessments: impact, technology
Work and health, Social security and social welfare
Health care services and systems
Health promotion, Health literacy, Behavioural insights
Health workforce, practice and training
Injury prevention
Maternal, child and adolescent public health
Mental health
Migration, LGBTQI+ and minorities health
Policy, politics and public health
Public health genomics
Public health monitoring, reporting and foresight
Other public health issues
