The new Joint Action aims to make the benefits of digital health accessible to all citizens, patients, and healthcare professionals in order to enhance cancer prevention and care across Europe. This initiative, framed within the EU4Health Programme and Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, will run until 2029.
The European project eCAN Joint Action (JA) has presented a guide of recommendations to integrate telemedicine in European healthcare systems for cancer prevention and care. The presentation has taken place in Brussels last Friday, at the BIP Meeting Center. For two years, the project has explored the role of teleconsultation and telerehabilitation. Its main goal was to identify necessary actions to strengthen the adoption of telemedicine for cancer prevention and care and the use of digital tools for reducing cancer care inequalities across the EU.
The eCAN pilots focused on remote rehabilitation and virtual psychological support for breast, head & neck, and advanced cancer patients, conclude that the digital health approach has a positive impact on people with cancer and can be useful to improve patient compliance in reporting outcomes and experiences.
In the fourth and last episode of this podcast, we’ve talked to four psychologists, one physiotherapist and one primary investigator. They have shared with us their reflection on these clinical trials. After all the work that has been done, now it is time to collect their feedback to start thinking about future actions. Their experience not only guide our next steps, but also help us to understand the main challenges and where our efforts are most needed.
In this third episode, we’ve talk to the healthcare professionals involved about the chances of applying the eCAN experience to the European healthcare ecosystems. What would we need to implement the telemedicine tools that we tested in regional hospitals or cancer centres? They highlight some of the features that must be taken into account to translate these clinical trials into daily common practice within hospitals. We invite you to press play and listen to their reflection on this topic.
In this second episode of the eCAN Bites, we’ve interviewed one of the primary investigators of this resarch, one physiotherapist that worked with breast and head and neck cancer patients, and two clinical psychologists that offered online therapy to cancer patients. We want to share the patients’ experiences through their voices and these four professionals have helped us to build a clearer picture on what patients needed and expected. We invite you to press play and listen to their experiences, you might be surprised by the importance of the very small details when doing a transnational study like this one.
eCAN Bites is a podcast that gather interviews with some of the healthcare professionals that have participated in the eCAN pilots. In four episodes we will try to dive into their experiences. How was to be involved in this study as a healthcare professional? What’s the patients’ feedback? How this project could change the current healthcare ecosystem in Europe? In this first episode, we’ve interviewed three clinical physcologist and one medical oncologist from 4 different countries. They shed light on the main benefits and difficulties they encountered while setting and conducting the study.
Behind the figures and statistics that are published every year about cancer, there are stories. And today we would like to share Dale’s with you. Dale Bates took part in our Head & Neck Cancer pilot project by doing remotely rehabilitation from Seville, Spain.
eCAN breaks out the findings of its focus groups about digital health and tools organised by members from INAB|CERTH, AUTh and 3rd RHA. These virtual meetings took place between May and December last year and involved patients, healthcare professionals and patient assistance agents.
Equity and digital transformation are not always perceived as two sides of the same coin, and although there is an undeniable change in how we behave and interact in this technologically driven World; it is not less true that digital tools offer an incredible range of innovative solutions that can be helpful to reduce inequalities in different fields. This World Cancer Day 2024 we address how inequities between rural and urban areas can be tackled.
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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or HaDEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
💻🩺 @IDIVALdecilla sigue trabajando en la digitalización de la atención oncológica en Europa con su participación en @ecan_ja, junto a 81 organizaciones de 23 países.
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👉Συμμετοχή της @eHealthcy στην εναρκτήρια συνάντηση της ευρωπαϊκής πρωτοβουλίας @ecan_ja στις Βρυξέλλες.
🔴Το έργο είναι χρηματοδοτούμενο από την Ε.Ε. και στοχεύει στη βελτίωση της πρόληψης και της θεραπείας του καρκίνου μέσω της ενίσχυσης των ψηφιακών δυνατοτήτων των κέντρων…
🚀Kick off @ecan_ja à Bruxelles : Renforcer les capacités numériques des centres de cancérologie de l’UE pour améliorer la prévention & la prise en charge !
Les 83 partenaires issus de 23 pays se réunissent pour définir la feuille de route de cette Joint Action (2025-2029, 20M€)
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