Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 30 Issue 4

Guest editorial: Advancing integrated care with digital health innovation issue editorial

Carolyn Steele Gray, Irina Efimenko, Jordi Piera-Jiménez, Nick Guldemond

Personalized care with mass production efficiency: integrating care with a virtual care operator

Paul Lillrank, Fares Georges Khalil, Annika Bengts, Perttu Kontunen, An Chen, Satu Kaleva, Paulus Torkki

This article aims to describe the thinking behind MASSE, a project in Finland that helps address the fragmentation of care and patient journey disruptions for long-term care. It…

Human-centered integrated care pathways for co-creating a digital, user-centric health information solution

Eva Turk, Viola Wontor, Cecilia Vera-Muñoz, Lucia Comnes, Natercia Rodrigues, Giovanna Ferrari, Anne Moen

A broader challenge of co-creating digital solutions with patients addresses the question how to apply an open-access digital platform with trusted digital health information as a…

The development of a platform to ensure an integrated care plan for older adults with complex care needs living at home

Lorena Villa-García, Ariadna Puig, Pau Puigpelat, Montse Solé-Casals, Oriol Fuertes

The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and development of the digital platform for the development and monitoring of care plans for older adults with complex care…

Integrated care with digital health innovation: pressing challenges

Kanchan Pant, Meena Bhatia, Ranjan Pant

Digital health care has emerged as one of the most important means to deliver integrated care by care providers in recent years. As the use of digital health increases, there are…

The ‘Service Transformation Outline’ toolkit to assist in the design, comparison and replication of integrated care programmes

Angelo Rossi Mori

The author is introducing a toolkit that can assist stakeholders to design, compare and replicate integrated care programmes, by making explicit their view on the transformations…

A maturity model framework for integrated virtual care

Chi-Ling Joanna Sinn, Zain Pasat, Lindsay Klea, Sophie Hogeveen, Ceara Holditch, Carrie Beltzner, Andrew Costa

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) and virtual visits have the potential to transform care delivery and outcomes but require intentional planning around how these technologies…

The European Health Data Space: a step towards digital and integrated care systems

Stefano Genovese, Rafael Bengoa, John Bowis, Mary Harney, Bastian Hauck, Michel Pinget, Mike Leers, Tarja Stenvall, Nick Guldemond

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the urgency of better chronic disease management and the importance of making it an integral part of the recovery agenda in Europe. This…

What role can education play in integrated care? Lessons from the ECHO (Extensions for Community Health Outcomes) Concussion program

Q. Jane Zhao, Nathan Cupido, Cynthia R. Whitehead, Maria Mylopoulos

Design, implementation, and evaluation are all important for integrated care. However, they miss one critical factor: education. The authors define “integrated care education” as…

The patient experience of telehealth access and clinical encounters in Australian health care during COVID-19: implications for enhancing integrated care

Jennifer White, Julie Byles, Tom Walley

Telehealth consultations are likely to continue while living with COVID-19 and the risk of other pandemics. Greater understanding of patient perceptions is important in order to…

An analysis of a novel Canadian pilot health information exchange to improve transitions between hospital and long-term care/skilled nursing facility

Tyler Aird, Ceara Holditch, Sarah Culgin, Margareta Vanderheyden, Greg Rutledge, Carlo Encinareal, Dan Perri, Fraser Edward, Hugh Boyd

The purpose of the article is to assess the effectiveness, compliance, adoption and lessons learnt from the pilot implementation of a data integration solution between an acute…

Hospital-based ambulatory clinic adoption of video and telephone visits before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a convergent mixed-methods study

Vess Stamenova, Suman Budhwani, Charlene Soobiah, Jamie Fujioka, Rumaisa Khan, Rebecca Liu, Ilana Halperin, R. Sacha Bhatia, Laura Desveaux

The purpose of this study is to understand virtual care use (e.g. telephone and video visits) during the COVID-19 pandemic across three hospital-based ambulatory clinics (i.e…

Data and care integration for post-acute intensive care program of stroke patients: effectiveness assessment using a disease-matched comparator cohort

Emili Vela, Aina Plaza, Gerard Carot-Sans, Joan Carles Contel, Mercè Salvat-Plana, Marta Fabà, Andrea Giralt, Aida Ribera, Sebastià Santaeugènia, Jordi Piera-Jiménez

To assess the effectiveness of an integrated care program for post-acute care of stroke patients, the return home program (RHP program), deployed in Barcelona (North-East Spain…