Objective
EmERGE will develop a mHealth platform to enable self-management of HIV in patients with stable disease. The platform will build upon and integrate the existing mHealth solutions operated by pioneering healthcare providers in the UK and Spain and apply a rigorous co-design approach to ensure patient and clinician input to the solution. The platform will provide users with web based and mobile device applications which interface securely with relevant medical data and facilitate remote access to key healthcare providers EATG, the European HIV patient organisation, will provide a direct and deep interaction with representative patients and clinicians from 5 EU countries. The platform and interfaces will be validated in a large study of 3900 patients using a tailored HTA process, MAST, specifically developed for the assessment of mHealth solutions including translatability as a key factor. Based on prior work showing a high uptake rate and use of mHealth in HIV patient populations, EmERGE aims to demonstrate the benefits to patients and simultaneous increases in cost-effectiveness for healthcare providers by reducing face-to-face consultations, estimated at 6000 saved per year within this study alone. Patient reported outcomes will be agreed and used in the assessment and development of the system which also aims to increase adherence and enable frailty to be reported using mHealth technology. Innovation will be given priority from the beginning by developing new business models of care provision, targeting key stakeholders in the EU health provider sector, including policymakers and clinicians, while eliciting demand from patients to highlight and initiate the widespread implementation and compensation of mHealth solutions within the timeframe of the project. Guidelines and policy briefs will be produced to evidence the benefits and disseminate the lessons learned to support the uptake of mHealth for self-management of other chronic diseases.
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Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-PHC-2014-single-stage
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
BN2 5BE Brighton
United Kingdom
Participants (14)
40233 Dusseldorf
BN2 4AT Brighton
2000 Antwerpen
Participation ended
HA6 2UE Northwood
08029 Barcelona
BN1 9RH Brighton
1169 097 Lisboa
10000 Zagreb
WC1B 3HH London
28040 Madrid
Participation ended
BN1 1UF Brighton
Participation ended
HD1 3BD Huddersfield
EH3 7PE Edinburgh
BN21 4PT Eastbourne East Sussex