SmartCARE

SmartCARE - smart Card Application improving canceR survivors quality of lifE

The SmartCARE project aims to develop an EU-level Cancer Survivor Smart Card to improve the quality of life and health status of cancer survivors. The mobile and web app will provide new support to under-met needs related to the medical and psycho-social aspects of cancer survivorship. The project will deliver an interoperable smart card solution that is readily available to survivors and their families, with the patient voice in mind. This will involve working with different categories of survivors and their caregivers to shape the specifications of the app.

SmartCARE’s technical proof of concept and ‘minimum viable product’ will help create an interoperable smartcard solution, which can be used across a variety of healthcare infrastructures and is readily available to survivors and their families. Working alongside an app developer consortium, smartCARE will bring forward the patients' voice to ensure the app delivers on three core attributes of ‘patient-centred’ care: 

• consideration of patients’ needs, perspectives, and individual experiences; 
• provision of opportunities to patients to participate in their care (‘self-management’); 
• enhancement of the patient-clinician-nursing relationship.

SmartCARE marks a commitment by the EU, as highlighted in Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, to help all countries meet the challenge of cancer survivorship together, and give tangible support to all those undergoing life after treatment.