Integrated Care Programs for People with Multimorbidity in European Countries: eHealth Adoption in Health Systems.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

eHealth applications have the potential to provide new integrated care services to patients with multimorbidity (MM), also supporting multidisciplinary care. The aim of this paper is to explore how widely eHealth tools have been currently adopted in integrated care programs for (older) people with MM in European countries, including benefits and barriers concerning their adoption, according to some basic health system characteristics.

Materials and methods

In 2014, in the framework of the ICARE4EU project, expert organizations in 24 European countries identified 101 integrated care programs. Managers of the selected programs completed an online questionnaire on several dimensions, including the use of eHealth. We analyzed data from this questionnaire, in additio

SUBMITTER: Melchiorre MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7168691 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature