E-Health in Albania Evaluation of care pathways for chronic patients

Various international researches have shown that raising the standard levels of quality and efficiency associated with the provision of health services through intelligent technologies can have major repercussions at the socio-economic level, leading to more efficient spending and better care for the patient. The work proposed firstly collected and analyzed INSTAT data to get the picture of health in Albania in recent years. Building a system for measuring and evaluating the state of health of chronic patients through the collection, storage and sharing of data can generate guidelines to improve the quality of life of the patient. For the sustainability of healthcare today, the patient/citizen must regain their central role and worldwide efforts are focused on a Value Based Health Care model, in order to improve the patient's health conditions optimizing resources and eliminating waste and downtime. Having a clear picture of the dynamics by age, type of disease, two fundamental objectives are achieved: Achieve a degree of effectiveness with respect to the service provided thanks to the improvement of the quality of life of the chronic patient and reach new frontiers of efficiency from the point of view of reducing costs incurred for the health service by investing only in therapies that serve to increase the level of quality of life. In our work we used appropriate self-assessment questionnaires(SF-36 and SF- 12) of mental and physical health status administered to chronic patients, to implement standard indicators of patient well-being and guidelines for remote assistance.