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Abstract
Starting Position
The Project
Project Components
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The Project:
The project ”healthregio - Regional Network for the Improvement
of Healthcare Services“ is being carried out in the ”Outer
Border Programme“ INTERREG III A of the European Union.
The goal of this programme is to support and promote cross
border cooperation between neighbouring regions, to encourage
the establishment of a new economic and social ”pole“ with
joint development strategies.
The purpose of ”healthregio“ is to work out sustainable
political and economic concepts for the strengthening of
healthcare service sectors and towards a targeted cooperation
of providers of healthcare services in the border regions
A-HU-SK-CZ.
Through the networking of all relevant players and decision
carriers in the healthcare sector ”healthregio“ will attempt
to reposition the healthcare sector in the border regions
of A-HU-SK-CZ. The goal is a long-term positive development
on a regional level. Targeted networking of stakeholders
in the region will facilitate the joining of all powers,
the use of existing resources and, at the same time, consider
activated potentials and health and eco-political factors.
Diverse developments in the region will be perceived as
chances to learn about new starting points and to make
new developments possible with each other. With this there
will be an initial knowledge exchange and Know-how-Transfer
on a broader basis, which will also determine all project
phases from ”healthregio“, from the conception to the joint
implementation of the measures.
In the context of ”healthregio“ there will be an initial
attempt to carry out an evaluation of healthcare as an
extensive economic factor and the healthcare provision
capacity and quality in the border regions A-HU-SK-CZ .
Joint concepts and measures for optimal healthcare provision
(such as bilateral agreements, investigation into optimisation
and economisation potentials) serve to improve the provision
of care. Centralisation and optimal utilisation of existing
resources and development potential (e.g. experience exchange,
know-how-transfer, joint utilisation of infrastructures,
structure improvements) and the optimisation of the service
provision (creating synergies, securing quality etc) facilitate
a long term positive development and cooperation of the
healthcare service sector. This has the support of the
healthcare service sector on a regional level ( securing
and creating jobs, securing care services) and, as a result
of this, competitively on a global level (establishment
as attractive tourism region, promoting investment).
Project Implementation
The starting point for the processing of concrete proposals/recommendations
for a sustainable development of the healthcare service
sector in the border regions comprises extensive market
research and analysis of the type and quality of the services
provided and the existing strengths and potentials which
are published as a study. There will be a summary of all
relevant legislative and structural changes, which have
taken place due to the EU East expansion and the existing
strengths and potentials to guarantee the efficient utilisation
of existing know-how and resources in the regions and to
identify and evaluate the chances for the regional development.
The study will serve as a basis for the processing of
the proposals for structural improvements in the region,
which will be presented in the form of a report. This
report will contain recommendations for long-term steering
of economic and healthcare political developments in
the border regions: the report will be distributed in
the form of a CD ROM to all players and decision carriers
and forms the basis for the implementation of concrete
measures.
A network of all relevant players and decision carriers
will be built for the realisation of the ”healthregio“
project. This will also involve the networking of providers
of healthcare services, small and medium-sized companies,
in the framework of the project. This networking and
the targeted implementation of measures are a fundamental
part of the project’s concept: a steering group which
will comprise representatives from diverse national institutions
and interests (eg Ministry of Health and Women, Vienna
Healthcare Service, EALIZ), private industry and representatives
from neighbouring countries (HU-SK-CZ) will determine
the content priorities of the project with most varied
further organisations from Austria and the neighbouring
countries cooperating in the form of participation in
an advisory committee of working groups for diverse topics.
The national cooperation will be coordinated through
focal points in in A-HU-SK-CZ, which will be established
in the course of the project in the border regions and
whose main job will be to take the first steps in concretely
implementing the recommendations in the report.
An Online-Platform (in D, HU, SK,
CZ, GB) will initially serve as a communication hub
to inform all the participating
organisations and other interested parties about the
current project status. This platform will serve as a
crucial element to successful networking and also making
the offers completely transparent.
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