ADLIFE Newsletter
Issue 4 | June 2021
Welcome to the 4th ADLIFE Project newsletter.
Highlights from ADLIFE
Despite all the challenges of the ongoing global pandemic, there’s still lots of work going on in the project.
We recently held our second ADLIFE Virtual Consortium Plenary meeting on 4th and 5th May 2021 and had a full two days of informative and exciting discussions.You can read more about this event below.
We continue to spread the word about the ADLIFE project and members of the ADLIFE team have presented some of the work at two virtual conferences recently: the International Conference on Integrated Care and the Medical Informatics Europe Conference.
Latest Blog
Our new blog is out now! In this latest blog, our technical partners SRDC tell us more about the PEP for patients and caregivers. This blog coincides with Carers Week in the UK - an annual event aimed at raising awareness about caring and the challenges faced by informal caregivers.
We are developing a range of ICT tools in the ADLIFE Project. One of those, the Patient Empowerment Platform will be used as a daily digital assistant to help support patients and theri caregivers. Read more about how this tool will support patients and their caregivers to better follow up on medical instructions and communicate wit their health care teams.
Where we’ve (virtually) been...
Since our last newsletter, we have participated in and hosted at events and conferences across Europe – virtually that is!
The European Federation for Medical Informatics Association (EFMI) Virtual Conference - May 2021.
The European Federation for Medical Informatics Association (EFMI) is the leading organisation in medical informatics in Europe. It was founded in 1976 and represents 30 countries through their respective national health informatics associations. EFMI is a not-for-profit organisation concerned with the theory and practice of Information Science and Technology within Healthcare and Health Sciences in a European context. The 31st Medical Informatics Europe Conference (MIE) by the EFMI was held as a Virtual Event on 30th – 31st May 2021.
Gokce Banu and Laleci Erturkmen from our partners SRDC and their colleagues presented their paper, ‘Interoperability Architecture of the ADLIFE Patient Empowerment Platform’, at this recent conference.
You can read more about the MIE2021 conference and see the full conference programme here.
ICIC21 Virtual Conference May 2021: Realising the true value of Integrated Care
In May 2021 the 21st International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC21) “Realising the true value of Integrated Care” virtual conference was co-hosted by four hubs collaborative centres: IFIC Scotland, IFIC Australia, IFIC Ireland, IFIC Canada and IFIC Latin America
Dolores Verdoy, from Kronikgune Institute for Health Services Research, Spain, participated in the Mobile and Digital Support Tools session on Thursday 6th May and presented ‘Integrated personalized care for patients with advanced chronic diseases to improve health and quality of life (ADLIFE Project)’.
The ICIC21 Conference was built around 9 Pillars of integrated care. You can read more about the these 9 Pillars and see the full conference programme here.
Meet the ADLIFE Team
This month, we get to know Dr Lisa McCann, Senior Lecturer in Digital Health and Care from the University of Strathclyde in our Meet the ADLIFE team feature. Read more about Lisa here.
Latest blogs
