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Acronym
ECHO
Is the Research network active
Yes
Reason
End of project
Internal contact
Topics
Health systems » Health system performance » Quality » Care
Health systems » Health system performance » Costs/expenditure
Health systems » Health system performance » Access
Health status » Mortality » Age- and cause-specific mortality » Non-communicable diseases (excluding cancer)
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Benchmarking
Delivery of Health Care
hospital in-patient data
Indicator set
Aim of the Research Network

ECHO aimed at building a common knowledge infrastructure based on existing datasets, which ultimately allowed international healthcare performance comparisons.
Conceived as a pilot study, ECHO set about the task of bringing together patient-level data from Denmark, England, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain, and contextual information -demographic, socioeconomic, and healthcare supply data.
This knowledge infrastructure allows evaluating more than 40 performance indicators, carefully developed to avoid inappropriate cross-country comparisons.
The ECHO knowledge infrastructure allows the study of several performance dimensions (equity, effectiveness, safety and efficiency) at the international, national, regional, and even provider level.

Start date: 01/03/2010
Leading institute
INSTITUTO ARAGONES DE CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD (IACS)
Principal investigator
Enrique Bernal-Delgado
INSTITUTO ARAGONES DE CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD (IACS)
Participating Institutions
7 countries :
Institution Country Website
INSTITUTO ARAGONES DE CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD (IACS) Spain Institute for Health Sciences in Aragon (IACS) website
University of Southern Denmark (SDU) Denmark University of Sourther Denmark - Statens Institut of Folkesundhed (National Ins…
Escola Nacional de Saude Publica Portugal Escola Nacional de Saude Publica - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Universität für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Medizinische Informatik und Technik (UMIT) Austria UMIT - The health and Life Sciences University
University of York United Kingdom University of York - Health Services and Policy Research Group
Nacionalni Inštitut za Javno Zdravje (NIJZ) Slovenia Nacionalni Inštitut za Javno Zdravje (NIJZ) - National Institute of Public Heal…
European Health Management Association (EHMA) International European Health Management Association (EHMA)
Method for gathering data from partners
Partners send data in a certain format (e.g. CSV, xml)
Method for transferring data from partners
Via mail
Data security for data transfer
Data encryption
Data security for data access
Data encryption
Do you perform any activities related to COVID-19? (Data collection, analysis, Capacity Building, policy making)
No
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Updated on 26 May 2021