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Observatory of Innovative Practices for Complex Chronic Diseases

Acronym of the case:

OPIMEC

Web address of the case:

http://www.opimec.org

Country of the case:

Spain

City/region:

Andalucía

web 2.0. | community | complex chronic disease


Posting Date: 2 February 2010
Last Edited Date: 02 February 2010

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Author:

Andres Cabrera (Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública (EASP). Junta de Andalucía)Spain
Type of initiative
  • Network
Case Abstract

OPIMEC is the acronym in Spanish for the Observatory of Innovative Practices for Complex Chronic Disease Management. 

The Observatory is a project funded by the General Directorate for Health Planning and Innovation of the Andalusian Ministry of Health in Spain. With the collaboration of  Dr. Alejandro Jadad, Canada Research Chair in eHealth Innovation and Rose Family Chair in Supportive Care, through Foresight Links Corporation and the Andalusian School of Public Health, in Granada, Spain, and a growing number of innovators who share a strong interest in collaborative efforts to improve the management of complex chronic diseases worldwide.

OPIMEC responds to the need to create and build an network instrument  known to managers, researchers, health professionals in general and patients and caregivers, organizations and practices related to management of complex chronic diseases, thus facilitating continuous improvement of quality in health care.

Description of the case
Domain
eHealth
Topic
Health portals
Sector
Healthcare
Start date - End date
January 2008 (Ongoing)
Date operational
January 2008
Target Users
Add Patients | General public | Health authorities | Health professionals
Target Users Description

OPIMEC is aimed at managers, researchers, health professionals in general and patients and caregivers interested in reducing the impact of chronic disease complex.

Thus, OPIMEC includes other groups of interest:

  • Pluripatology, complexity and fragility
  • Scientific societies and associations
  • Global alliances to improve the health and welfare
  • Primary Care and Community Nursing
  • Health centers
  • Public health and participation
  • Agencies and quality of Health Technology Assessment
  • Management and communication of knowledge
  • Social networks and virtual communities
  • Health observatories
  • Dependency
  • Plans and processes of care
  • Public health and social
  • Any other group associated with innovation in health.  
Scope
International
Status
Operation
Language(s)
Spanish
Other
English
Policy Context and Legal Framework

  • OPIMEC's mission is "To coordinate, develop and establish from Andalusia, Spain and focus on the international level, the basic structures necessary for the creation and consolidation of a global community in the field of complex chronic diseases, through the systematic search and rigorous selection of innovations and of interest as well as promoting collaboration and exchange of scientific and technical.
  • OPIMEC´s vision is collaborating with the Ministry of Health of Andalusia to develop policies on complex chronic diseases, as well as public service providers, especially the Andalusian Health Service, taking responsibility for promoting new knowledge and tools to develop a new public health and a new organizational model of health and social services to people with complex chronic diseases. In addition, OPIMEC is an initiative that advocates for new technologies, open source, social networks and developing global partnerships.

    • Project Size and Implementation
    Type of initiative
    Participation
    Overall Implementation approach
    Partnerships between administration and/or private sector and/or non-profit sector
    Technology choice
    Open source software
    Funding source
    Public funding regional
    Project size
    Implementation: Not applicable/not available
    Implementation and Management Approach

    OPIMEC offers through its Web the following contents:

    • Map and directory with information related to innovative practices, organizations and individuals related to the prevention, detection and treatment of complex chronic diseases,
    • Taxonomy or glossary that acts as global common language to support the identification, selection, classification and implementation of practices by health professionals,
    • Updated information on news, documents, meetings, resources, etc..
    • Calendar of international events,
    • A content manager to propose the publication of any content type
    • Selected information through
      • or a direct search on 'live' and  'dynamic'
      • or indexing by experts through the 'labels' given by the users of the Web (tags)
    • Collaborative editing of content, such as taxonomy or key areas of development in Complex Chronic Disease Management,
    • Meetings with the management that you can schedule meetings, participants propose, agree on an agenda and closure of the record and attach content of interest to the meeting,
    • Establishment and membership of communities with common interests to share and create knowledge
    • Updated information of interest in English and Spanish,
    • Participation in the contents of comments and vote OPIMEC by facilitating the exchange of ideas and knowledge creation and fostering appreciation of the information,
    • Syndicated content (RSS) subscription to news, documents, glossary, events, reviews, resources, etc..,
    • Social bookmark: Web sites to store favorite pages and classify, share and collaborate in the creation of specific areas of knowledge,
    • Collaborative documents: OPIMEC innovative tool with which to create, vote, write reviews and track all shares through the subscription to comments RSS

    Technology solution

    Django

    Impact, innovation and results
    Impact

    Through OPIMEC Web you can participate:

    • Proposing the dissemination of innovative practices and organizations in the management of complex chronic diseases.
    • Proposing the dissemination of other relevant content such as documents, events, resources, news
    • Going to your profile to see all content you've proposed.
    • Scoring and commenting on the contents of OPIMEC.
    • Participate in OPIMEC community, creating tyour own teams, forums, convening meetings, etc..
    • Collaborating in the development of a common language and key areas for CCDM.
    • Subscribing to the newsletter and the RSS to keep updated automatically on all sorts of information related to CCDM.
    • Editing a document online and in collaboration with other experts.  

    Lessons learnt

    Opimec is

    • A taxonomy specialist GEC
    • Web 2.0. of knowledge management and communication open
    • International map of innovations and other Web content
    • International Advisory Board
    • Allies in Spain and internationally
    • Communities


    Opimec is the first initiative promoted by public institutions,

    • Data quality, updated and experts specializing in GEC
    • Professionals can learn or supplement their knowledge
    •  They may propose content
    • Make their experience
    • Contact with other professionals
    • Create task or themed around common interests

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