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Volume 7, Issue 5 (Suppl) J Health Med Inform
ISSN: 2157-7420 JHMI, an open access journal Medical Informatics 2016
October 6-7, 2016
October 6-7, 2016 | London, UK
4th International Conference on
Medical Informatics & Telehealth
COPINGWITH NEWTECHNOLOGIES FOR INTEGRATEDASSISTANCE: EVALUATION OF THEADHERENCE
TO THE BEYONDSYLOS PROJECT
Slaveyko Djambazova, Maria Daniela Giammancob, Lara Gittoc and Stoicho Katsarovd
aMedical University Pleven, Bulgaria
bUniversity of Catania, Italy
cUniversity of Roma, Italy
dCentre for Protection of Healthcare Rights, Bulgaria
The project “Beyond Silos”, launched in 2014, and expected to run until January 2017 involves several European countries, among
which there is Bulgaria. The project is aimed at spreading ICT-enabled, health and social care for older people by developing
integrated services, such as Telecare and telehealth, household support, etc. However, the array of health, social care and housing
services and their procedures can be confusing particularly for elderly people. Individuals who agreed to join the project may refuse
to continue to follow it: consequently, loss of adherence could increase their situation of frailty. In Bulgaria, 118 individuals, signaled
by social services and their GPs, were suitable for inclusion in the project. After two months, 18 patients showed a low compliance and
decided to leave the assistance program. Among the reasons to justify their decision, together with the aggravation of disease, there
was the difficulty to cope with the technology. This brief communication examines the reasons for reduced adherence: information
has been collected through questionnaires directed to patients and their carers. The results of the analysis may help in developing and
effective model of integrated care.
Biography
Slaveyko Djambazov graduated medicine (2001), healthcare management (2007) and MBA (2010). He has been a serial entrepreneur for the last 16 years and has
been teaching is doing in research and publishing in the field of health economics and health technology assessment for the last 6 years.
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