Social Integration and Health

Health and social care integration (Summary)

Financial Integration Across Health and Social Care: Evidence Review FINANCIAL INTEGRATION ACROSS HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE: EVIDENCE REVIEW

Transforming Delivery of Health and Social Care: Rethinking Systems Integration

In 2013, the UK Government announced a major £3.8 billion healthcare initiative, the Better Care Fund. This funding was intended to be used within local health and care systems to drive closer integration, create new service efficiencies, support technological innovation and most importantly, improve outcomes for patients and people with care and support needs. The research described in this pa...

Health and social services integration in the Veneto Region

Purpose: Veneto Region is currently achieving the integration of health and social services by integrating the tele-surveillance (detection of emergencies) already provided to ‘socially frail’ people with tele-monitoring, addressed to patients affected by chronic diseases. Theory: This strategy is guided by the idea that a better integration between the different levels of assistance is capable...

Social Data Integration and Analytics for Health Intelligence

The aim of this Ph.D. work is to develop a social data analytics framework for healthcare. The user-generated data can provide direct experience and opinions on medical conditions, treatments and insights on population health that can benefit clinical doctors, public health officials as well as patients and researchers. To utilize these social data, we address following research problems: (1) S...