More than 7,000 patients with diabetes in monitorEuropean telemedicine 'palante' in Andalusia.

Patients participating in 'Palante' access the service through 'Click Health', available in the virtual office of the website of the Ministry of Equality, Health and Social Policies, where they register their capillary blood glucose data, their weight,Its blood pressure and physical activity.Through this application they can follow their pharmacological treatment, obtain diabetes related educational material and raise consultations so that the professionals of their center can respond them.All these data are integrated into the unique digital health history of each user.

On the other hand, as indicated in a statement, health professionals, both doctors and nurses, carry out a personalized monitoring of patients with diabetes through an computer desk icon in their workplace.From it you can consult the information that patients have introduced (glycemia measurements, blood pressure, weight, etc.) and exchange messages with them that help them in the process of their disease.

The 'Palante' project, in which the Ministry of Equality, Health and Social Policies coordinates the pilot of one of the seven developed in different regions of the European Union, is co -financed by the Program of Competitiveness and Innovation of the European Commission, andIt aims to assume the control of their own health care, in collaboration with the specialist, through the use of telemedicine tools.

On June 23, the Final Conference of the project will be held in Brussels under the title 'Empowerment of patients through E-Salud: European evidence'.In addition to the conclusions and results of the experiences developed in the 'Palante' project, the event will have a space in which initiatives will be accommodated with content related to the empowerment of the patient, health services through the network and access toThe digital medical history.

In this sense, those interested in publicizing their experiences in this forum will register their communications, until the end of May and for free, in the following link: Link the registered candidacies, a maximum of six projects will be selected, which will have the opportunity to carry out an intervention of a maximum fifteen minutes in the section delimited for it.

The 'Palante' project, through the application that supports it, pursues control and exhaustive monitoring of people with diabetes, greater communication between patient and professional, the reduction of the number of visits to both primary care centers and hospitals, the decrease in the number of hospital admissions and obtain a faster response from the health professional to the user.It also means for Andalusian public health the optimization of resources and the improvement of the quality of assistance to people with diabetes.