Background
NEXTCARE is an innovation project belonging to the Healthcare Ris3Cat community lead by Biocat which officially starts on October 2016 with a 4.5 years duration (2016-2021). The project focuses on integrated care services for chronic patients with a personalized medicine foundation, has 3 main objectives:
- Regional deployment of services;
- Catalan test-bed for international leadership as 4-star EIP-AHA reference site;
- Transfer and exploitation of new products and services which generate return value to the strategic healthcare Ris3Cat sector;

Nextcare Strategic Actions:
- A1: Clinical risk stratification and prediction;
- A2: Self-management and promotion of healthy lifestyles;
- A3: Chronic complex patients’ management: monitoring and prevention of exacerbations;
- A4: Transfer of specialized diagnostic tools to primary care; and,
- A5: Digital Health Framework to achieve interoperability.