Computerised coordinated care system in the RISE project.

It is a fact that elderly peoples' life is characterized by problems such as deteriorating health and physical condition, feelings of loneliness, isolation, and of being dependent on others, in many aspects of their everyday lives. The objective of the RISE project is to provide an efficient vehicle for Health Care Professionals for improving Health Care, quality of life and integration of the elderly and disabled people with society by implementing Information technology applications. In particular, RISE project aims in developing a distributed network of service providers across the European Union, which will provide integrated types of services to the elderly and disabled population. The purpose of this paper is to present the impact of this project concerning the Health Informatics sector. It will describe the issues regarding, the needs for education and training of the professionals that arise by the introduction of this concept, and, the possible ways that such a concept forms an efficient vehicle for Health Professionals in assisting these particular groups of users. The longer perspective seeks to redefine and reshape the Health Care services' larger purpose, i.e. to make those comport with elementary individual needs of the elderly and disabled by introducing new methods of efficient health service provision. To achieve this there is an increased need for the training of the professionals. The outcome of RISE will be a set of specialised software components, tools and training methodologies designed to assist the Health Professionals achieving the aforementioned tasks.