Murcian Pilot

The objectives of the pilot in Murcia are to improve telecare systems in the region, especially by empowering older adults to participate more directly in their care. The Murcia pilot aims to establish the basis of a new TeleCare Model for the Public Health Care Service of the region starting with patients with chronic heart failure, improving their health and care services and detecting emergency situations to reduce the dependency of older adults.

In Murcia, the main Scenarios to be tested are related to getting involved in the health and care process, improving patient care and detecting emergency situations. To answer these scenarios, the technologies selected are the uGRID platform (MIWEnergia), a commercial Smartband and an Activity Tracking App developed by UPCT Smartband, Amicare (CETEM), sensors and RB1-Base1 (Robotnik). All of them were integrated in the Onesait Healthcare Data Platform, a telemedicine platform that allows the treatment and follow – up of chronic patients at home. Through its two users’ interfaces: MyHealth app for older adults and informal caregivers, and Homecare, for health providers, the system offers tools for the bidirectional communication among healthcare professionals in the clinical setting and patients at home, so that patients are provided with personalized treatments according to their clinical conditions and progress.

During the prevalidation phase MIW and CETEM installed and configured devices – Amicare, Smart Band and Smart devices – at participants’ homes in Murcia, Cartagena, Alcantarilla and Yecla. Test sessions for performing and assessing the scenario defined for the RB1-Base robot, were carried out at the Hospital Morales Meseguer in Murcia, where 6 nurses from the infectious floor participated.