Linkcare is a Patient Centric, Case Management Oriented Open Health Care Model. Linkcare’s open source platform provides interconnectivity between home curators, nurses, physiotherapists, general practitioners, and medical specialists and their patients. Linkcare protocols are designed by prestigious committees in the areas of Chronic Disease, Fragility, End of Life Care, Wellness, Reproduction & Neonatology, and Clinical Research, to be shared and improved by the Linkcare community. Linkcare provides connector for most Electronic Health Record (EHR), Primary Care I (PCIS), Hospital (HIS) and Enterprise Resource Programming (ERP) Information Systems under an Open Source Creative Commons license. Participating patients may help to improve integrated care protocols by voluntarily endorsing an anonymous clinical data donation program.

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2. Today’s Health Care Systems were designed in the XXth century to
provide acute relief to wars, infections, injuries and alike….

3. As approaching the end of the century Health Care Services
conditions improved to provide a better environment for patients

4. According to WHO chronic disease will affect 30% of population by 2050,
Chronic patients will not just live in a “more comfortable hospital”.

5. Tomorrow’s senior patients will be able to enjoy life despite
their chronic disease

6. Is a Patient Centric
Case Management Oriented
Open Health Care Model

7. In today’s health model, patients arrange separate appointments
with several specialist an primary care practitioners

8. To avoid this. LinkCare invites prestigious health care specialists of
different countries and create clinical committees.

9. Rather than thinking in a specific individual, those doctors are
asked to focus on an imaginary patient

10. This imaginary patient has an associated list of personal antecedents and
personal profile (i.e. weigh, work situation, level of physical activity…)

11. He has some medical problems, called the problem list, and the
current situation or patient conditions

12. All this information associated to the imaginary patient is
called the patient profile

13. Based on their own specialty expertise the clinical committee
members agree on specific care plan

14. This care plan associated to a certain patient profile becomes
an integrated care protocol

15. The clinical committee submits the approved protocol to
Linkcare. Once accepted, it is included in the Linkcare library

16. Now primary care practitioners can select one of the protocols
matching his patient profile based on his own adoption criteria

17. Protocol is inserted into the EHR (electronic health record), an
participants (specialists, nurses, home care personnel) are reported
through their respective HIS (hospital information system) or PCIS
(primary care information system), and activities are scheduled.

18. The patient himself may perform some of the activities from the assigned
care program such as self exploration and report (internet or phone)

19. Linkcare also supports 3G, ANT+ and Wi-Fi medical device connectivity.
Collecting data from telemedicine devices form different platforms

20. Integrated care services may call the patient periodically to
follow him up and provide psychological and medical support.

21. In case an anomaly is detected (automatic alert), the remote nurse
calls the practitioner “on call” to check for treatment review.

22. If one specialist has concerns, he may have a second opinion through the
EXCHANGE system (sharing patient information on anonymous basis)

23. Patient visits to the hospital or the general practitioner decrease.
Explorations are scheduled for a better patient convenience

24. As he is confident that someone is taking care of him he doesn’t need to go
to the urgency room, being afraid his health may be getting worse.

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1,250 907 4,520 2,630 279
60 50 164 147 15
LinkCare provides immediate feedback on the number of health
service providers and patients that adopted each clinical protocol

26. Patients may participate in the improvement of new protocols ,
“donating” their anonymous clinical data

27. Developed countries can help other economies with “medical
advice” donations. Giving back some of the talent they attract

28. We now believe that our true goal is not just to live as long as
possible. But we want also to enjoy life as much as possible

29. The Linkcare model can be applied to other situations beyond
chronic disease. Such as pregnancy an early childhood

30. Linkcare shortens hospital stay by addressing fragility after a
hospital surgery or acute episodes

31. Linkcare can also helps people to have better dietary or exercise
lifestyles to reduce the risk of developing earlier chronic diseases

32. Our goal: To give 5 more minutes of enjoying life to 7,000 M people
A total of 2.283 years of happines

34. In memoriam of Quim, my beloved father, who
was found a bladder cancer at the age of 50 and
survived to bladder surgery until the age of 78
affected by Parkinson’s disease
He learned skiing at the age of 52, an deeply
enjoyed living until his last year of live
Jim Roldan, CEO

35. Many thanks to generous Greek artist Petros Sagoridis