Selfie 2020

SELFIE is a Horizon2020 EU project that will contribute to the current state of knowledge and provide applicable policy advice on integrated care for persons with multi-morbidity. Currently, over 50 million persons in Europe have more than one chronic disease, and this number will only increase dramatically in the near future. As a consequence, health care spending will increase to a staggering 20% of GDP. Multi-morbidity will become the number one threat to population health and economic sustainability of health care systems. New models of care for multi-morbid patients are thus needed. SELFIE aims to improve patient-centered care for patients with multi-morbidity by proposing evidence-based, economically sustainable, integrated chronic care models that stimulate cooperation across health and social care sectors. These models must also be supported by appropriate financing/payment schemes. There are three main strands of research in the SELFIE project: 1.Cross-country comparative descriptive research of Integrated Chronic Care (ICC) models for patients with multi-morbidity, including a list of financial/payment schemes that support these models; 2.Intra-country evaluations of financing/payment schemes of ICC models, and Multi-Criteria Decision Analyses (MCDA) of the 16 most promising ICC models; 3.Synthesis, implementation, and transferability of the ICC models, specific focus also on Central and Eastern European Countries.