The Universitat de València’s Research Institute on Social Welfare Policy – Polibienestar – has validated the tool used by the Valencian Health Agency through the programme Valcronic to determine the risk level of people with chronic diseases. This tool is called Community Assessment Risk Screen (CARS) and has been developed by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine along with the Care Services of Carle Clinic Association in Illinois. It allows to assign a level of risk to patients according to their medical diagnosis, medication and previous hospitalizations.
Last March, the programme Valcronic was established as a pilot project in four healthcare centres, two of them in Alicante (Elx and Santa Pola) and two in Valencia (Sagunto and Puerto de Sagunto). Its goal is to improve quality healthcare for people with certain chronic diseases such as lung diseases, high blood pressure, or diabetes, among others. It brings technological devices to patients’ houses which are able to obtain information on bio measures, which in their turn are transmitted to doctors at the healthcare centres through different systems like Tablet, PCs or Smartphones.
This programme is intended to help 7,500 people with chronic diseases. Among them, 1,500 would have a high and medium risk. Polibienestar institute cooperates with several departments in the Valencian Health Agency assessing the programme Valcronic at different levels.
Polibienestar has a long experience assessing this kind of programmes and developing new care services for people with chronic or long-term diseases. Some researchers in the institute, like Francisco Ródenas and Jorge Garcés, are in charge of other projects, apart from this one, as ContinuityCare or Prometeo OpDepTec. They also take part in European projects which are defining the health policies regarding this field like INTERLINKS.
Last update: 7 de june de 2012 06:54.
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