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SCIROCCO joins the EHTEL Innovation Initiative in Brussels

The EHTEL 2017 Symposium hosted a SCIROCCO meeting in Brussels on 15 March 2017 at its EHTEL Communities Day. The aim was to understand how tools, like the SCIROCCO maturity model, can help innovation agencies in supporting the implementation, scalability, and transfer of integrated care solutions in Europe.
SCIROCCO Project Coordinator, Donna Henderson of NHS 24 (Scotland) introduced the initiative. Stuart Anderson from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) showed exactly how the SCIROCCO tool was designed and created. SCIROCCO members, Lisa Lundgren from Norrbotten in Sweden and Francesca Avolio from Puglia in Italy, described how using the SCIROCCO tool had helped their region.
Supporting scale-up in service innovation, SCIROCCO is now being used in several other regions in the European Union.
Discussion confirmed that the SCIROCCO tool helps innovators to put their innovation in context and engage in conversation with authorities. Attendees appreciated SCIROCCO’s:

  • Process of scaling-up with a range of different stakeholders, including regional policy-level decision-makers
  • Assessment of where “you” are (e.g., as a region; a site; a good practice).
  • Way of engaging in a specific (policy) direction in a timely, organised, practical way, without wasting resources.

This session provided a good lead-up to more SCIROCCO presentations that will take place at the ICIC conference in Dublin, Ireland, 8-10 May 2017.
Exciting possibilities also lie ahead for the way that the SCIROCCO model can be used in many more regions throughout the Union.

SCIROCCO at Arctic Light eHealth Conference in Norrbotten, Sweden

The 5th international Artic Light eHealth Conference, ALEC, took place in Norrbotten 1-2 February 2017. The theme of the conference was accelerating digital health.

The SCIROCCO project contributed to the conference by a dedicated workshop “Scaling Integrated Care in Europe – What does it take?” on 1 February 2017. The objective of this workshop was to explore the potential of SCIROCCO tool to facilitate exchanges of good practices and the scaling up of active and healthy ageing solutions in Europe. It also demonstrated the practical experience of European regions with applying the tool to assess the maturity of their national and regional integrated care practices. The workshop featured specifically the outcomes of the maturity assessment in the Norrbotten County Council, Basque Country and Puglia region in Italy.

All presentations from the workshop can be accessed here.

SCIROCCO First Project Assembly Meeting at Kronikgune, Bilbao

Kronikgune hosted the first SCIROCCO Project Assembly Meeting on 18-19 October 2016 in Bilbao. Osakidetza and Kronikgune are SCIROCCO partners in the Basque Country, Osakidetza as a region interested in the adoption/transfer of knowledge in the area of integrated care and Kronikgune as a leader of the SCIROCCO work package „Analysis of the maturity requirements of a Good Practice“.
The aim of the meeting was to review the project progress, share the good practices in integrated care from the five participating European regions and agree on the next steps for SCIROCCO project. In particular, the meeting focused on the presentation of outcomes of the Delphi study, refinement of the Maturity Model and methodology for the assessment of good practices in integrated care. The meeting was opened by the presentation of Enrique Barez (Osakidetza) who presented one of the good practices submitted from the Basque Country „Transversal approach towards pain, from a Pain Unit“. In the second part of the meeting, Helen Schonenberg introduced the ACT@Scale project. The ACT@Scale is an EU funded project with the goal to identify, transfer and scale up existing and operational Care Coordination and Telehealth good practices. The Consortium discussed the synergies between the two projects and agreed on the potential areas of collaboration with this European project, including the use of Maturity Model.
The second SCIROCCO Project Assembly Meeting is planned for June 2017 in Bari, Italy.

ACT@Scale uses Maturity Model to deploy Integrated Care

The ACT@Scale project is a partnership of innovative European healthcare regions, industry and academia with potential to transform cure and care delivery services from pilots to scaled up, routine care practice for the benefit of the European population.

Changes in the process, structure and outcomes of the services are tracked and evaluated during 2 consecutive one-year intervention cycles.

The purpose of these interventions is to scale up the service by applying improvements in the areas of:

  • stakeholder and change management,
  • service selection,
  • sustainability and business models, and
  • citizen empowerment.

The Maturity Model can be used to monitor the maturity of healthcare care system structure in the regions. The Maturity Model can track changes in the healthcare system over time, as well as similarities or differences in the healthcare system between services. For ACT@Scale the Maturity Model gives the context in which certain interventions did have certain outcomes.

The project comprises 13 partners from 6 EU and associated countries including 5 deployment sites across 4 of the countries coordinated by Philips Healthcare in Germany. ACT@Scale runs for 3 years starting from the 4th of March 2016 and has a total budget of €3,5m co-funded by 3rd Health Programme of the European Union. The ACT@Scale programme is fully aligned with the European Innovation Partnership in Active and Healthy Ageing objectives to deploy integrated care for chronically ill patients.

https://www.act-at-scale.eu/