Project: European eHealth care model for rare neurodegenerative diseases

Acronym	HEALTHE-RND (Reference Number: HESOCARE-329-039)
Duration	01/01/2019 - 31/12/2022
Project Topic	Rare neurodegenerative disorders (RND) like Huntington’s Disease (HD) require multidisciplinary care teams which are in short supply. Given the devastating consequences of RNDs for the individual patient and their families there is an urgent need to develop innovative ways to ensure access to best practices and established care pathways, less constrained by the randomness of the place of residence of the patients. HEALTHE-RND strives to contribute to achieving the aspirational goal: ‘not the patient has to travel, the knowledge does’. Our multi-national and multi-disciplinary consortium will harness the power of e-health care models for rare neurodegenerative diseases, will engage in the co-development of needbased patient value (PV) assessments and will conduct an exploratory proof of concept study in HD serving as pilot project for e-health care interventions for RNDs. In module 1 we will develop for patients and companions/caregivers disease-specific, patient-centric assessments using the needs-based conceptual model aiming at valid, unidimensional indices of outcome allowing to assess the impact of social and educational services provided along with the impact of medical interventions and their side effects. In parallel, in module 2 we will develop, implement and test for feasibility a multidisciplinary, multilingual multicultural e-health care model. In module 3 we will then evaluate the impact and value of the e-health care model by conducting an exploratory proof of concept (POC), randomized controlled trial using needs-based PV measurements as the primary outcomes. Overall, the project is expected to provide a model for the improvement and optimization of existing health care strategies for RND across Europe and may hasten the development of new health care approaches.
Network	JPCOFUND2
Call	Multinational research projects on Health and Social Care for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	Charles University in Prague	Coordinator	Czech Republic
2	University Clinic Ulm & European Huntington's Disease Network	Partner	Germany
3	Bloomfield Hospital	Partner	Ireland
4	IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Research Institute	Partner	Italy
5	Topaz Huntington Center Overduin	Partner	Netherlands
6	Leiden University Medical Centre	Partner	Netherlands
7	Galen Research	Partner	United Kingdom