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Pharaon project, where Cáritas Coimbra is co-leader of the dissemination work package, has been an active contributor to the health and care cluster initiative coordinated by OPENDEI since its beginning and has now deepened its commitment by taking over the chair of the working group 1 on dissemination in 2021. This health and care cluster initiative seeks to align large-scale pilots, reference architectures and open platforms through platform and data ecosystem building, large scale piloting and standardization.

Pharaon project will chair the Working Group 1, which focuses on joint dissemination opportunities for the cluster’s members, from common dissemination materials to collaborative presentations at conferences. Working Group 4 is also led by Pharaon and focuses on architectures, standards, reusable components. Both 5 working groups have the following objectives:

• Stimulate coordination and cooperation among participating projects in health and care domain and stakeholders to achieve synergies and deliver value,
• Share knowledge, (common/best) practices, valuable materials and information,
• Identify common points and detect gaps.

 

The health care sector cluster currently consists of 8 projects – Pharaon, Smart4Health, Gatekeeper, Smartbear, Adlife, InteropEHRate, Shapes and Faith – that span 20 countries and 41 pilots. The cluster which is supported by EHTEL as ambassador, is structured along 5 working groups:

• WG1 – Dissemination
• WG2 – Use cases
• WG3 – KPI
• WG4 – Architecture, standards and reusable components
• WG5 – GDPR

 

The digitisation of the healthcare system has been underway since at least the 1990s but has evolved slowly due to a number of major barriers, such as the complexity of healthcare systems, the nature of the patient-healthcare professional relationship, the resistance of clinicians to change the way they work, and legal and ethical issues such as privacy and the sensitivity of healthcare data. An active collaboration between the various stakeholders has always and still is a prerequisite for success.

Pharaon is looking forward to continuing the great collaboration within the health and care cluster in its new role as Chair of the working group on dissemination. Pharaon – Pilots for Healthy and Active Ageing aims to develop integrated platforms that will allow personalized and optimized health and social care, maintaining the dignity of older people and increasing their independence, security, capacities and stimulating their interest in the urban natural areas near them. Furthermore, it intends to foster their active participation in preserving the environment. To this end, it proposes to integrate services, devices and digital tools on open platforms that can be promptly implemented.

The Pharaon consortium consists of 42 European entities and the project received a total investment of 21.5 million Euros funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 857188.