Acronym
ECHO
Network website
The ECHO project - European Collaboration for Healthcare Optimization
http://www.echo-health.eu
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)
Free keywords
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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