Nearly a hundred professionals from different medical and nursing services of the Bellvitge and Viladecans hospitals and the South Metropolitan Primary Care have participated in the first two training sessions of the Strack project. This Innovative Public Procurement project proposes a comprehensive approach to the patient in the first year after having suffered a stroke
On 21 and 28 March, two 6-hour training sessions were held, which included global sessions on monitoring and diagnosis. Its main goal was that of developing the re-engineering of the patient-care process to ensure smooth coordination between primary and hospital care. Some sessions were also dedicated to the monitoring and diagnostic devices to be used by the Strack programme patients.
Another part of the conference was devoted to advanced training for those professionals who will carry out the patient training.
The Strack training plan involves a major organisational effort as it includes 24 sessions with the participation of around 150 people of different profile, and as the training will be held in different formats: face-to-face, live streaming and recorded sessions. This will ensure professionals to acquire the new necessary skills to make the project a reality. 1 May the project will take off with the incorporation of the first Strack patient into the programme.
The core of Strack is a personalised Health or Care Plan that the patient receives together with the medical discharge. This plan is based on a major re-engineering of care processes, which includes a mobile application and other devices, allowing the patient to monitor and self-monitor a series of key parameters, such as blood pressure and heart rate.
Interconnecting these devices with the app and the hospital's telemedicine platform will make it possible to monitor the main risk pathologies for these patients, such as hypertension, dyslipidaemia, diabetes, joint fibrillation, heart failure and obesity, among others. The Care Plan, which must be understandable to the patient, also includes physical activity guidelines, cognitive rehabilitation exercises and information on the function and dosage of prescribed medication, among other information. All of this will put the patient at the centre, making them aware of their health condition and empowering them to make the best decisions.
The Strack project reorganisation of constant care for stroke patients gives a key role to primary care. The Bellvitge and the Viladecans hospitals admit more than 1,200 stroke patients each year, nearly 50% of whom belong to the same health area. This makes it possible to monitor the disease in the area’s Primary Care Centres.
Roche Diagnostic is the project's technology partner, having won the public tender a few months ago. The company will be responsible, among other things, for providing the remote control devices and developing the app, which should contribute to improving patients' quality of life and autonomy.
The Strack project is part of the Public Procurement of Innovation Projects programme within the Integrated Public Health System of Catalonia (SISCAT), funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Operational Programme.