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CASAStudy visit Kent County Council
10th-12th December 2012
Presentation based on report of experts Fabian Dominguez
Lead Partner CASA
8th May 2014, Brussel
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• Delegation:
• Pascal Coorevits (Ugent)
• Bart Vanrumste (KULeuven)
• Fabian Dominguez (Government of Flanders)
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Visits1.Hawkinge House
•Nursing home for people with dementia (mainly)
•Technology used: Personal Alarm System with 4 gradations of urgency
•Business model: rent of room and infrastructure, costs of care, hotel costs and
medical costs – last 3 costs = freedom of choice of provider
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Visits2.Estuary View GP Practice
•GP Practice with multidisciplinary team: GP’s,
GP’s with special interests, and paramedics
(fysiotherapists)
•Advantages: patients can receive services that
are otherwise only offered in general hospitals (X-
ray, A&E for simple wounds, paramedic
consultations)
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Visits3.East Kent NHS Trust Hospital
•Presentation of Telemedicine projects
• Da Vinci Surgical System
• Videoconferencing application used for CVA-patients
• Digitalization of tests (bloodpressure, temperature,…) – VitalPAC
system
Prioritization of patients
Monitoring of actions of nursing staff and departments
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check if values of patients are within normative values
Large scale deployment within hospital (+/- 50 departments)
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Visits4.University of Kent
•Presentation of studies on Telemedicine
• 2004: Kent Telecare pilot
• 2005: Kent Telehealth pilot
• 2007: Whole System Demonstrator
Largest countrywide RCT study on assistive technologie (>1000 test
subjects)
Target group: patients with COPD, diabetes, chronic heart
conditions
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Results regarding total amount of days in hospital:
• Positive outcome for use of telemedicine in comparison to
control group that was not provided with telemedicine
equipment
• Presentation of preliminary study on Telecare:
Group was provided with a Tunstall PAS-system: press button,
fire and CO-detector. Control group did not have a press button
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Visits5.Conclusion of experts
•Interesting experience
•Nursing home + GP practice: innovative business models
•East Kent NHS hospital + University of Kent: technological innovations
•Innovative character of applications
Not the state-of-the-art aspect was impressive, but the often large
scale implementation of the applications in Kent County
Advantages demonstrated by several studies > innovation is
important and feasible
Thank youFabian Dominguez
Social Affairs and Public Health attaché
Permanent Representation of Belgium to the European Union
P.A.: Ministry of Welfare, Public Health and Family Affairs
Staff of the Secretary-General
Koning Albert II-laan 35, bus 30
BE-1030 Brussels
