EkoSMART (Smart Integrated Healthcare and Longterm Care System) is a large research project in Slovenija. One of its field of research (smart integrated healthcare and longterm care system) aims to enable elderly population, people with chronic diseases, dementia or other health conditions, longer, more active and safer conditions to remain living independent in their own homes, resulted in a social care service based on IoT (Internet of Things) and person-centered technologies, available 24 hours a day. The technology supporting the service detects a need for intervention if a user is due to falling or other difficult health condition not able to make an urgent call.
EkoSMART is developing approaches and prototypes to ensure the basic conditions for effective transformation to integrated healthcare and home care system. It provides: integration of different levels of healthcare, effective and secure exchange of information among different stakeholders of the healthcare system on the national level (national registers, accounting system, big data analysis) and basic conditions for development and sustainability of the healthcare and social system.
The main goals are:
- development of a model of integrated healthcare provision and the establishment of related infrastructure,
- development of a systemic foundations for extending the model of integrated healthcare provision,
- raise the quality of life and safety of chronic patients and extended care,
- safe use of medicines and reduced number of referrals to clinical pharmacologists.
Source: Telekom Slovenia https://www.telekom.si/zasebni-uporabniki/ponudba/e-oskrba
Access date: 12.12.2021