Integrated Health Care Barcelona Esquerra (Ais-Be): A Global View of Organisational Development, Re-Engineering of Processes and Improvement of the Information Systems. The Role of the Tertiary University Hospital in the Transformation.
The Integrated Health Area "Barcelona Esquerra" (Área Integral de Salud de Barcelona Esquerra - AIS-BE), which covers a population of 524,000 residents in Barcelona city, is running a project to improve healthcare quality and efficiency based on co-ordination between the different suppliers in its area through the participation of their professionals. Endowed with an Organisational Model that seeks decision-taking that starts out from clinical knowledge and from Information Systems tools that facilitate this co-ordination (an interoperability platform and a website) it presents important results in its structured programmes that have been implemented such as the Reorganisation of Emergency Care, Screening for Colorectal Cancer, the Onset of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Teledermatology and the Development of Cross-sectional Healthcare Policies for Care in Chronicity.
Strategy and Planning Manager, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona 08036, Spain; Standing Committee of AIS-BE, Spain.
David
D
Font
Chronic Care Programme Manager. Hospital Clínic - AIS-BE, Spain; Director Master Plan for Respiratory Diseases (PDMAR) & Home Respiratory Therapies Observatory (Obs TRD) (Ministry of Health), Spain; REDISSEC (Research Network for Health Services in Chronic Disease), Spain.
Joan
J
Escarrabill
Coordinator of the AISBE Technical office, Spain; Standing Committee of AIS-BE, Spain.
Mónica
M
Gómez
Eixample Primary Care Consortium (CAPSE) Manager, Spain; Standing Committee of AIS-BE, Spain.
Rafael
R
Ruiz
Primary Care Manager (SAP Esquerra - Catalan Health Institute), Spain; Standing Committee of AIS-BE, Spain.
Belén
B
Enfedaque
Integrated Health Area "Barcelona Esquerra" (AIS-BE) Manager. Barcelona Health Consortium (CatSalut), Spain; Standing Committee of AIS-BE, Spain.
Xavier
X
Altimiras
clinical management; integrated healthcare; re-engineering of processes; shared knowledge and information