8. februar 2012
CSAM Health AS, represented by Nina Stenberg and Håkon Haugtomt, and Oslo University Hospital, represented by Ivar Berge, are at the moment participating in the PALANTE kick-off meeting in Seville. This is the starting point for this major, 36-month European project.
The PALANTE project is about patient empowerment: letting the individual become an active member of his or her own condition management team.
Patient empowerment has the potential to reduce healthcare costs and improve efficiency of the health systems, reinforcing healthcare quality. This has become an element of high priority in the EU health strategy, supported by national and regional health authorities.
The program started in the spring of 2011, when 18 (now extended to 21)
health care institution and eHealth providers from 10 different countries came together to form the PALANTE consortium (PAtient Leading and mANaging their healThcare through EHealth).
The participants came together to seek in response to an EU Call for Proposals within the ICT Policy Support Program. The theme was ICT for health, ageing well and inclusion: Empowering patients and supporting widespread deployment of telemedicine services.
The EC funding will go to the development of seven different e-health pilots. These will help empowering patients all over Europe by giving them access to their own health/treatment information.
The Norwegian Pilot CSAM, Oslo University Hospital and the University of Oslo will be cooperating to give 50,000 patients the facility to read their discharge notes ('epikrise' in Norwegian) through the patient portal MyRec.
Additionally a group of patients with chronic disease (diabetes) will be given access to self-management tools; the ability to communicate with health care providers about the use of these tools and general communication about their condition and treatment.
While continously commercializing our Patient Platform, CSAM will act as the technology provider, helping Oslo University Hospital develop MyRec further.
The Oslo University Hospital patient portal MyRec has been running for four years, since 2007, and is also being used at two other main hospitals in the South-East Health Authority in Norway.
This is a project funded by the European Commission as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme - ICT Policy Support Programme.