About Empattics

Multi-faceted challenges like coping with a chronic disease require multi-faceted solutions. The biggest disease burden in the EU is coming from the chronic ones, affecting millions of people.In the pursuit of finding a holistic solution that will make the lives of chronic patients better, five European public Buyers have joined efforts for a project called EMPATTICS.

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Much of the time of consultations at a primary health centre is destined to chronic patients. It’s almost mechanical tracking, something routine to adjust medications or special diets. For a patient, especially elderly ones, there’s a disorder provoked by the continuous dependency linked to the disease’s tracking, added to the disease itself.

Diabetes requires an exhaustive control, not only on diets and medication, but also because of the medical tracking to adjust the treatment. I’m talking about a minimum of 8 visits to the doctor in a year. For us, as his parents, it’s complicated to combine it with our jobs and daily routine and now that Markel has started school, the situation is much more complicated for him.