Summary of project objectives. Against the background of the European Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing, BeyondSilos aims to define a common set of standard functional specifications for an open ICT platform enabling the delivery of integrated care to older European citizens. A total of seven regions and their key stakeholders will define a comprehensive set of integration building blocks around the challenges of data sharing, coordination and communication. The deployment sites will pilot integrated health & social services to combat a range of threats to independent living commonly faced by older people, while the others will prepare for early adoption. In a rigorous evaluation approach, the pilots will produce and document much needed evidence on the impact of integrated care, developing a common framework suitable for other regions in Europe. Guidelines and specifications for procuring, organising and implementing the service building blocks will be delivered. The organisational and legal ramifications of integrated care will be analysed to support long-term sustainability and up-scaling of the services. BeyondSilos services will provide full support for self-care, empowerment of care recipients and carers, as well as cooperative delivery of care, integrating these resources across organisational silos. Fundamentally, the Project aims to integrate formal with informal care in a better way. They will adopt essential coordination tools such as shared data access, care pathway design and execution, as well as real time communication support for care teams, and multi-organisation access to home platforms. The services build on advanced ICT already deployed in the pilot regions, including a high penetration of telecare and telemonitoring home platforms. System integration will be based, whenever possible, on open standards, and multivendor interoperability will be strongly encouraged. The common services will allow efficient cooperative care delivery, and empower all older people according to their mental faculties to take part in effective management of their health, wellness, and chronic conditions, and maintain their independence despite increasing frailty.
Summary of project objectives. This Project has six specific objectives: • to evaluate whether the ongoing operation of a high-quality EMS, third party certified to the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) 14001 EMS standard, can achieve Superior Environmental Performance in both regulated and non-regulated areas and drive environmental management toward continuous improvement; • to identify in practice and demonstrate by example the characteristics of a high- quality environmental management system that achieves superior performance; • to integrate, over time, agencies into the EMS process of identifying Significant Environmental Aspects, and setting Objectives and Targets, identifying models for the most efficient use of agency staff resources; • to test various concepts (see Exhibit C) and develop and demonstrate indicators to measure the performance of a high-quality EMS over the long term; • to identify and implement regulatory flexibility demonstration projects which arise in the normal course of the operation of a high-quality EMS, and which will lead to environmental performance that is superior to what would be achieved through compliance with current or reasonably anticipated future regulations and will model environmental regulatory approaches which are “cleaner, cheaper and smarter”; and, • to identify over the five year period of this Agreement whether and how a high- quality EMS can be the basis for an integrated approach, embodied in a single document, governing environmental management in all media at Microelectronics. In addition, this pilot project will help determine whether use of a high-quality EMS will create a more efficient, more transparent, more easily understandable, and more flexible system which not only meets the requirements of existing statutes and regulations but achieves superior environmental performance.
