Capacity Building and Best Practices Research Projects

Project # 2 :   PARADIGMA : Global Disease Management Network

PARADIGMA - Participative Approach to Disease Global Management

European Commission Project code:  112

Date: 1999

Duration:  18 months

Total Budget:  2.311.785 €

Sector:  Healthcare networks

Description:  

PARADIGMA applies aPARticipative Approach to GlobalDIseaseMAnagement to develop and demonstrate, in a pilot study, an Internet based reference framework to share scientific resources and findings in the treatment of major diseases. PARADIGMA defines and disseminates a common methodology and optimized protocols to support service functions directed to patients and individuals on matters like prevention, post-hospitalization support, and awareness.
PARADIGMA will provide a platform of information services - user-oriented and optimized against social, cultural and technological constraints - supporting the Health Care Global System of the Euro-Mediterranean Community in a continuous improvement process.
PARADIGMA will integrate "point solutions" in a reference structure, in order to achieve a knowledge-based platform that can be continuously enhanced to meet renewal and learning needs of all actors, through the concept of participation.
Its goal is the deployment of a network based information system to interconnect, using user-friendly, context-adaptive and affordable solutions, the actors at all levels in the Health Care Systems of the Euro-Mediterranean region with the scope of supporting and promoting a “PARticipative Approach to Disease Global Management”.

Logical Framework Overall Goals:  

The project will deploy an Internet based network and a set of working services aimed to support Global Management of major Diseases, by enabling scientific resources and findings share.

Logical Framework Project Purpose:  

* Integration of knowledge base and medical expertise from local experiences.
* Participative approach in developing context-adaptable protocols (Clinical Pathways).
* Euro-Mediterranean wide solution, user-friendly and optimized for each operative context.
* One single entry point, web-based (portal).
* A framework ready for incremental growth of knowledge base and diseases addressed.

Results:  

* Project web server.
* 4 Clinical Pathways.
* Telemetric services providing operative support and inter-operability.
* A reference model and framework.
* A continuous improvement process to extend and refine the knowledge base.
* A new and more effective working method