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Collaboration, dissemination, sharing of knowledge, and added value. These are words and concepts that describe the general aims of liaison in many projects. This blog post seeks to provide a broader understanding of what liaison means and why it is important for projects in general and for the IMA project specifically, along with how IMA has gone about this activity.
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Closing in on the end of the ImpleMentAll project, it is time to reflect upon some of the communication tools used during the course of the project. Why does a project like IMA have a Twitter account? How is that helpful and advantageous? How is it used and promoted? This blog post will give insight into the thoughts and reflections on the specific communication style of social media and explain how a project like IMA can benefit from social media promotion.
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Let’s take a step back from the organisational and international objectives of ImpleMentAll and try to get an understanding of the individual people that IMA in the end is going to affect. Sometimes, with such a complex and comprehensive project as IMA, it can be greatly inspiring to consider the perspectives of tangible people who, hopefully, in the end will benefit from the changes that the project will entail.
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Complex projects like ImpleMentAll force complex and well thought-out solutions sometimes. During the first three ImpleMentAll years, we faced a number of challenges on the way to better and more effective implementation of iCBT. This blogpost aims to show you three examples.
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What is dissemination and implementation (D&I) research and why do we do it? This is the title of the first video in a curriculum developed by the Mayo Clinic Dissemination and Implementation research Methods Working InTereSt group (DIMwits).
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As ImpleMentAll has embarked on its final year, we are reflecting more and more on the end goals of our project. What will be remembered when this big implementation project officially ends? What is it that we really want to achieve? Well, two things, mainly. And with this blog post we will take you on a journey to the end goals of ImpleMentAll.
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We talk a lot about implementation science, because it is at the core of the ImpleMentAll project. But, what is implementation science, why is it important to study, who are the stakeholders, and which outcomes do we predict will come from this line of studying? In this blog post, we will demystify implementation science from an ImpleMentAll perspective, so you can understand the scientific field as well as IMA a little better.
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In IMA, we have chosen to focus on the implementation of internet-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (iCBT) - but what is iCBT really, what is it used for, and why is it relevant to our project? We have tried to answer these questions in this blog post by drawing on the expertise in the consortium.
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We, in IMA, are doing a lot of research! Most of it revolves around the core of the project; developing the ItFits-toolkit, evaluating it, etc. However, the consortium partners also do other research more loosely related to IMA, and this often results in publications. In this blog post, we will take a closer look on the IMA Publication Committee to understand their purpose in the project, who they are, and why they are so important.
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Much like the Eurovision Song Contest, IMA’s consortium consists of a number of European partners, and then a couple from Australia. We, in IMA, are extremely happy with our diverse consortium, but what is the reason for Australian organisations to join an EU project, and what can those partners, or even the Australian healthcare system, gain from such a project? We set out to find the answers to these questions.
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There is a big difference between the mental healthcare systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) compared to high-income countries. Therefore the IMA consortium finds it highly interesting to have two LMICs in our consortium and part of the trial. For this blog post, we wanted to find out if and how IMA has made an impact in these countries, so we asked our partners in Albania and Kosovo.
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This year’s conference of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) took place in Auckland, New Zealand on 12-15 February 2019. Despite the long travel distance to be taken by most of its consortium members, ImpleMentAll was pleased to have organised two symposia.
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As most of our readers will know, ImpleMentAll is a fairly large and complex project with aims tapping into implementation science as well as psychology and the provision of mental health care. The many processes going on at once further complicate the project, which leads us to the theme of this blog; the management of IMA and what it takes to keep a complex project successful.
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The translations of the NoMAD and ORIC questionnaires are two of ImpleMentAll’s most significant outcomes so far. They were published here on the website a few months ago, but have you wondered how and why these translations were made? Well, you are about to learn!
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In ImpleMentAll, our ultimate goal is to develop a toolkit for tailored eHealth implementation, the ItFits-toolkit. Our assessment of the ItFits-toolkit as a potentially valuable innovation will be based on several frameworks. The “Model for Assessment of Telemedicine” (MAST) is one of them.
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Have you ever wondered how to make a strong consortium? It must be able to complete the tasks given and thereby ensure that ambitious goals are obtained as well as achieving the expected impact. This blog post will account for some of the thoughts we had when establishing the ImpleMentAll consortium making sure that the necessary knowledge, expertise, and resources were present in the project.
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ImpleMentAll’s aim is to make the normalisation process easier and more effective for healthcare innovations in the future. Thus, normalisation is a key part of our work with this project, and therefore crucial to understand in order to understand ImpleMentAll.
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One of the great aims of the Horizon 2020 programme and any project funded by it, is to tackle the current challenges faced by society. We wouldn’t have started ImpleMentAll if we didn’t believe in our own contribution to this mission. This means that the project was born out of challenges in the healthcare sector that need solving in order to better the treatment of (mental) health issues, especially internet-based and innovative treatments.
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IMA’s study protocol is confidential, thus it cannot be shared, but for those of you interested in the project and our methods, this blog post gives a glimpse of the research methods we use in our work with IMA.
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What constitutes a well-balanced advisory board, what does the process of creating it contain, and what are the ideas and thoughts that ar necessary for completing this task? Take a closer look at the IMA advisory board and learn more about how we created it.
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Some of you might be familiar with the MasterMind project. It is a finished project, but because it focused on implementing eMental health initiatives across Europe, its themes and findings are closely tied to the ImpleMentAll project.
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"We build too many walls and not enough bridges". These words by Isaac Newton formed the opening of the seminar titled “Breaking walls, building bridges”, which presented the IMA project and provided a much needed insight on mental healthcare in Central and Eastern Europe - an area of the world that has largely been overlooked in global mental health, despite the scarcity of resources in the region.
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No matter where you look in the world, the experience with eHealth implementation is that it is a time-demanding and difficult process that often fails. eHealth solutions, no matter how brilliant, simply don’t make it into routine care before they become obsolete. This applies to large roll-out projects such as implementation of national infrastructures or EMRs as well as smaller, more specialised initiatives, e.g. implementing apps or video conference for specific purposes.
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Our very first blog post introducing what we expect to do with the blog and where we expect it to take us in terms of topics.
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