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Review
. 2022 Apr 2:17:343-358.
doi: 10.2147/CIA.S323723. eCollection 2022.

Interactions Between EIP on AHA Reference Sites and Action Groups to Foster Digital Innovation of Health and Care in European Regions

Maddalena Illario  1   2   3 , Vincenzo De Luca  1 , Gabrielle Onorato  2 , Giovanni Tramontano  2   3 , Ana Maria Carriazo  2   4 , Regina Elisabeth Roller-Wirnsberger  5 , Joao Apostolo  6 , Patrik Eklund  7 , Nandu Goswami  8 , Guido Iaccarino  9 , Maria Triassi  1 , John Farrell  2 , Jean Bousquet  2   10
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Interactions Between EIP on AHA Reference Sites and Action Groups to Foster Digital Innovation of Health and Care in European Regions

Maddalena Illario et al. Clin Interv Aging. .

Abstract

The article describes some of the achievements of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA), after eight years in operation. These results were achieved thanks to the collaborative work of the action groups (AGs) and reference sites (RSs). RS regional ecosystems include key organisations committed to investing in innovation to foster active and healthy ageing. The AGs are groups of professionals committed to sharing their knowledge and skills in active and healthy ageing. This article reports on the approach used by the EIP on AHA to bring together experts and regions in identifying and addressing these challenges. Synergies between AGs offered substantial support to RSs, allowing regional health and care priorities and challenges to be identified and pursued through AG commitments. Building upon the experiences of the EIP on AHA, the Reference Sites Collaborative Network has set up a number of thematic action groups that bring together multidisciplinary experts from across Europe to address the main health and social care challenges at regional, national and European level.

Keywords: active and healthy ageing; digital health; health innovation; health policy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Participating countries in the MASK-ARIA twinning. In yellow, countries with a twinning activity. In red, twinning in the entire country. The twinning RS originator is: MACVIA-France. The twinning RS adopters are: Aragon, Campania, Catalonia, City of Helsinki, Ageing@Coimbra, Heraklion, Kohln-Bonn, Life Tech Valley, Liguria, Lodz, Medical Delta, Milan Metropolitan – Bergamo Province, NHS24, Northern Ireland, Olomuc, Pays de la Loyre, Porto4Age, Apulia, Piedmont, Southern Denmark, Nouvelle Aquitaine, Turkey. Twinning organizations in Sweden and Lithuania are not RSs.
Figure 2
Figure 2
LISA (Living Lab per l’Invecchiamento Sano e Attivo – Living Lab for Active and Healthy Ageing) is an approach for the integration of social and health services addressing prevention of frailty in community-dwelling older adults in Campania. The approach takes advantage of information technology, health literacy programs and non-health services offered by new professional figures to support older people in preventing and managing chronic non-communicable diseases.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Styrian Reference Site ecosystem. The figure shows the mapping of the relevant stakeholders of the Styria Reference Site Ecosystem, highlighting the communication paths and relationships between them.
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