SALUD – Servicio Aragones de Salud (Aragón, Spain)

Aragón Healthcare Service (SALUD) is the public provider of healthcare in Aragón and has a network composed of: 12 general hospitals, 110 primary health centres and 5 geriatric hospitals.

The Mastermind pilot of SALUD will be lead from the Barbastro Hospital.

Vision
SALUD heads towards a scenario where an outstanding healthcare service is provided through the optimum management of the public resources allocated, whilst reaching a high level of customer satisfaction, fully backed by the citizens. Each and every professional working for SALUD is motivated and highly involved in achieving this objective.

Mission
To provide an “end to end” healthcare service to the citizens and residents within Aragon’s geographical area, by ensuring easy and quick access to the service, understood as: promotion of healthy ways of life; prevention and protection against physical, environmental and biologic factors; provision of any care required in an illness situation; whilst keeping the highest degree of autonomy for patients in their environment and in society in order to meet all of their needs and expectations in terms of personal health.

Values

Equity, solidarity and universality.
Community oriented.
Results oriented.
Continuous improvement, learning and innovation.
Responsibility of the top management.
Social responsibility.

MasterMind services

cCBT:

The four Spanish organisations participating in MasterMind agreed to adapt existing evidence-based cCBT programs to their local cultural context. For this purpose, a group of healthcare professionals (psychiatrists and psychologists) from these regions with expertise in CBT interventions and on-line therapies directed to other pathologies, have worked together to define the clinical content of the cCBT programme to be implemented. As there is no experience with cCBT, the four organisations had to use a stepped approach starting within a Mental Health Care Unit and since spreading to GPs.

The adapted cCBT programme, a web application developed in HTML5, is called “Supera tu depresión” (Overcome your depression) and consists of eight modules.

ccVC:

This ccVC pilot is taking place in the Lafortunada Healthcare Area. Due to the lack of a good communications infrastructure and to the limited public transport network in this area, the attendance at specialist consultations becomes quite troublesome for its inhabitants.

Besides the generic challenges (empowering the GPs in the treatment of mental health pathologies, to promote a closer relation between GPs and specialists, to reduce the number of consultations addressed to the Mental Healthcare Unit, and to improve the quality of the service provided), there are two goals that apply to this specific context: to reduce overall travel, and to improve accessibility to healthcare services (promotion of equity between rural and urban areas).

SALUD team members:

Role in project

Overall:

Coordination of the Mastermind project at the Barbastro Healthcare Area

Name: Modesto Sierra Callau

Organisation: Barbastro Healthcare Area, Servicio Aragonés de Salud (SALUD)

Title: Innovation Technician

Email: msierrac@salud.aragon.es

Expertise relevant to project
Computer Science Engineer.
Expertise with IT projects coordination and development.
Currently working also at other EU projects at Barbastro Healthcare Area Innovation Department.

Role in project

Overall:

General management of the Innovation Department Team

Name: Dr. Juan Ignacio Coll Clavero
Organisation: Barbastro Healthcare Area, Servicio Aragonés de Salud (SALUD)

Title: Innovation & New Technologies Manager

Email: jcoll@salud.aragon.es

Expertise relevant to project
Degree in Medicine and Surgery.
Post-graduate Diplomas in Biostatistical Methodologies applied to Medicine (specialisation in Epidemiology and Clinical Research).
Member of several national and international telemedicine expertise committees.
Manager of regional, national and EU related to ICT, (tele)-medicine and e-health.

Role in project

Overall:

Technical and administrative support

Name: Rosana Anglés Barbastro

Organisation:

Barbastro Healthcare Area, Servicio Aragonés de Salud (SALUD)

Title: Innovation Technician

Email: ranglesb@salud.aragon.es

Expertise relevant to project
Computer Science Engineer.
Expertise with IT projects management, coordination and development.
Currently working also at other national and EU projects at Barbastro Healthcare Area Innovation Department, including coordination of the ICT-PSP pilot-A SMARTCARE project at Aragón