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Cooperation In Service of Rheumatology

Companies and Hospitals in Poland and Norway join forces to bring cutting-edge technology to healthcare.

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PolNorRHEUMA cooperation

PolNorRHEUMA brings together notable experts from two countries with the common goal of advancing healthcare, in particular in the field of Rheumatology. 

The research partners JUMC and SSHF benefit from knowledge exchange in building clinical databases, biolabs and preparing for the high-quality national registers in rheumatology, introducing continuous monitoring of paediatric and adult patients with rheumatological diseases. By building large, structured datasets, the PolNorRHEUMA establishes a solid digital platform for future research and innovation activities including AI and Deep Learning. Technology transfer and sharing best practices between science and the enterprises is expected not only to lead to the development of new products and technologies, but also to new models of health care services, like condition-based treatment and remote monitoring of important disease parameters. 

The partnership introduces and fine-tunes the Norwegian GoTreatIT® platform to the Polish health ecosystem. The system greatly advanced Rheumatological treatment in Norway by leveraging cutting-edge technology in service of patients, doctors, and additional stakeholders.

PolNorRHEUMA encompasses a Rheumatology-specific database to store tests and facilitate diagnosis. And it goes beyond, providing protocols to estabilish healthcare metrics, frameworks for training personnel regardless of location, a forum where worldwide professionals can hold high-level discussions, as well as initiatives that contribute to leading academic research. 

All initiatives within PolNorRHEUMA are easily scalable and replicable so patients and professionals can enjoy all benefits, current and new. We expect this groundwork raises the bar in Rheumatology healthcare.

Sorlandet Sykehus Hospital Norway

Jagiellonian University Medical College Poland

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Project Timeline

January 2021

Installation and building clinical databases. Hospital installation and preparation.

April 2021 - October 2021
Definition of measurable parameters

Primarily, 4 sets of variables already positioned in the software will be collected:

  • EULAR/ACR/ASAS endorsed classification and response to treatment criteria,
  • physician/assessor reported outcomes,
  • patient reported outcomes and
  • laboratory and imaging results.
October 2021 - October 2023
Definition of measurable parameters

Improving individual patient care at participating centres, challenged with introducing remote monitoring of selected patient groups.

Publications in well-known medical journals in the field of rheumatology (e.g. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Rheumatology, Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology).

2021
2023
January 2021

Installation and building clinical databases. Hospital installation and preparation.

January 2021 - April 2021
Identify and select patient groups

The project will focus on patients with spondyloarthritis (ankylosing spondylitis, non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis) and rheumatoid arthritis. Enrolled will be patients already with ongoing treatment and commencing therapy after being diagnosed. Patients will be stratified according to prespecified parameters, e.g. disease activity.

April 2021 - October 2021
Definition of measurable parameters

Primarily, 4 sets of variables already positioned in the software will be collected:

  • EULAR/ACR/ASAS endorsed classification and response to treatment criteria,
  • physician/assessor reported outcomes,
  • patient reported outcomes and
  • laboratory and imaging results.
October 2021 - October 2023

Implementing longitudinal patients monitoring as a standard of clinical care and way to accomplish overall objectives The following specific objectives will facilitate.

Training patients and health personnel to use of software would be mandatory for success of proposed project.

October 2021 - October 2023
Definition of measurable parameters

Improving individual patient care at participating centres, challenged with introducing remote monitoring of selected patient groups.

Publications in well-known medical journals in the field of rheumatology (e.g. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Rheumatology, Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology).

statistics

Platform Operation Efficiency

30%

Patients Aided

Assisted with more precise diagnosis, faster test turnaround, and better care

60%

Academic Publications

PolNorRHEUMA cases and resources enabled Rheumatology publications in accredited journals

50%

Digitalized Assets

For the first time, tests and patient records data is structured, with easy and safe acess

Value

Benefits of Platform Services

Adopting state-of-the-art technology delivers value inside the hospital and beyond. From improved patient care to promotion of academic research, learn how the platform can improve the quality of life of all involved.

Definition of measurable parameters

Staff obtain instant access to data which helps making better key decisions that impact patients' heatlh

Publications in the field of rheumatology

Rich source of relevant and rare cases offers opportunities for prominent studies

Training patients and health personnel

Standard procedures and processes can be implemented quickly across different geolocations

Patients monitoring

Continuous observation allows for efficient risk assessment and resources allocation

Welfare, health and care

Increased efficiency lowers costs and increases capacity of treatment, benefiting all stakeholders

Building clinical databases

All data is centralized, structured, and secured, making it easy to filter out subsets for analysis or trials

about GoTreatIT®

Software Benefits

Why Use GoTreatIT®? The originator of the GoTreatIT® program is prof. Glenn Haugeberg, who developed and implemented it in collaboration with DiaGraphIt. The GoTreatIt program, continuously improved and operated for over 10 years in Norway and Finland, enables the simultaneous collection of data necessary for routine rheumatological care and high-quality registry data. This saves time and also reduces costs by avoiding double data entry. Thanks to the program, during one visit and one session of entering data into the program, both the archiving of information routinely required to guide a patient in the health system, as well as data for analysis (in the RWE - Real World Evidence register) are obtained. As data is collected at each visit, it increases the possibilities of assessing the course of the disease and treatment compared to classic registries in which data are collected at 6, 12 or 24 month intervals. The introduction of the GoTreatIT program to Polish centers requires adaptations in IT and legislative technologies that will enable the program to be placed in the IT environment of the IT network of hospitals and clinics.