The project will operate with five approaches:

A. Supporting Puglia Region and the Hospitals in the Greek eligible area to purchase the personal protective equipment and/or medical equipment (ventilators, beds, monitors, etc.).

B. Sharing know-how with the Greek hospitals and the Greek Ministry of Health about the “COReHealth” platform of telemedicine/clinical remote assistance that is already implemented and running for the Puglia Region. This is an innovative system that allows the monitoring of patients forced to quarantine for Covid-19, in order to avoid the hospitals costs, and to give a possibility of "normal life" to the population not severely affected.

C. Realize a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Greek Ministry and Puglia Region in order to develop a specific plan for the future aiming to homogenise the health activities in the eligible area and create a common interoperability standard for the home care.

D. Development from the Greek Ministry of Health of the new telemedicine eHealthPass platform, the mHealth application & web collaboration platform to support digital health services, collaboration and exchange of best practices on issues related to step-by-step procedures for infection control at points of care.

E. Capacity building & training sessions of the staff of the project partners, the experts & health professionals from Greece and Italy.

Work Packages

The project work breakdown structure is represented by the following WPs.

• WP1 – Project Management (led by LB Puglia Region): Management Activities, Technical & financial administration, Coordination activities (Project Steering Committee meetings);
• WP2 - Communication activities (led by LB and with the involvement of all the Greek beneficiaries): Dissemination of the project activities, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Greek Hospitals for the home care for the Covid-19, press conference, advertising on social media;
• WP3 - Health Equipment (all the beneficiaries involved): Purchasing of the personal protective and medical equipment;
• WP4 - Research and implementation of HCASA Platform (led by LB with the University of Bari): The Regional Health and Social Agency – Italy (PB11) will share the HCASA platform with the Greek hospitals and the Greek Ministry of Health. The Greek Ministry will realize the mHealth application & web collaboration platform as a support tool to the professionals, to make quick consultations, facilitating decision making at the point of assistance.