Digital Practice Platform for Post-Infectious Long-Term Care, Seeking DISEASE-03 Consortium Partners

Too many people with post-infectious long-term conditions cannot access the psychosocial support they need. They live in rural areas. They are bedridden and cannot travel to a clinic. They may need text-based communication because speaking is too exhausting. Reasons can be plenty, they may be young, part of marginalised communities, have a low socio economic status or income, or simply live in a country where no trained practitioner exists for what they are going through and others.

We believe this is a matching problem, a training problem, and a research problem, and that it takes a consortium to address as many factors as possible.

BYOM is a Norwegian company developing a digital platform designed to connect people who need counselling or coaching with practitioners who can help, across borders, languages, and delivery modes. The platform is being built from inside the counselling profession by its founder.

What we could bring into a consortium:

→ Technology and implementation capability for practitioner-patient matching at European scale video, chat, asynchronous text, designed around what each patient can manage
→ A professional development module: sensitisation training for counsellors working with post-infectious exhaustion, adapted to each country's professional requirements, which we as a consortium could develop
→ Multi-country, multi-language architecture from day one
→ Norwegian EEA eligibility (fully eligible as Horizon Europe Associated Country
What we would like to explore together:

→ Which therapeutic and coaching approaches have the greatest impact for post-infectious patients  and how to measure outcomes across different delivery modes
→ How low-barrier digital access changes care outcomes for underserved populations: rural communities, young people, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with severe functional limitations
→ How to train counselling professionals at scale for conditions they were never taught about in their original education
→ How care pathways can work across national borders within the EU/EEA

If your consortium needs a partner who thinks from both the patient's and the practitioner's perspective, or wants to work towards the same goals, with different ideas, we would like to hear from you.

BYOM · Askim, Norway