The European project HealthChain I3 (Interregional Innovation Investment) promotes the deployment of innovative digital solutions in healthcare, addressing market needs, addressing the challenges perceived by healthcare organisations and involving private companies in developing digital solutions through a new cascading financing instrument.
The project’s ultimate goal is to improve the delivery of healthcare services and accelerate the market uptake of digital solutions.
HealthChain brings together the knowledge and experience of five regional ecosystems to foster co-creation and collaboration between different stakeholders in the digitalisation of healthcare.
It creates value chains between local and international stakeholders, thus stimulating investment and positively impacting European companies and SMEs more competitive in the global market.
Connecting mirror regions
Creating an effective health environment that works for all stakeholders depends on the strength of the value chains established within health systems.
The circularity of the healthcare system dictates that the proposed solution models are interdependent.
Healthcare organisations, internal staff and external users of healthcare services, SMEs/IT companies, regional ecosystem supporters, and supporters of healthcare companies in local and international regions work in a coordinated way to create appropriate solutions in collaboration with external users.
5 ecosystem regions are involved in the project
- Murcia, Spain
- Centro, Portugal
- Western Slovenia
- Croatia, Primorska
- Goranska Region
- Eastern Netherlands
Easier entry into the healthcare ecosystem
Why?
- Rationalisation of time and financial investments
- Collaborative innovation
- Impact on tendering processes
- Connecting regional and European stakeholders
Slovenian challenge: Reducing the length of hospitalisation for hip replacement surgery
Within the umbrella project, Slovenian partners are addressing a challenge focusing on reducing the length of hospitalisation for hip replacement surgery (2 days instead of 7 days) in older people. This maintains the efficiency, safety and quality of the current level of care while allowing patients to enjoy a better quality of life.
The project aims to address the needs, complexities and limitations of the current healthcare system. The aim is to improve patient care and treatment outcomes and ensure health services’ sustainability and efficiency in the context of an ageing population.
The Slovenian partners are
Regional C&D Manager – Slovenian Innovation Hub (SIS EGIZ)
Participants – Surgical Senatorium Rožna Dolina
Participant – Health Lord
Participants – Parsek
Background of the challenge
Modern society is facing the challenges of an ageing population, with consequent evolving health problems, leading to an increasing number of patients requiring hip replacement surgery, with associated chronic diseases.
Healthcare organisations are faced with service and infrastructure capacity, while at the same time needing to provide high-quality services. Inadequate information management and poor responsiveness to therapies result in worsening long-term conditions.
The current practice of relatively long hospital stays for hip replacement procedures is unsustainable. Research supports the need to create strategies for faster and more effective rehabilitation outside institutional care, which requires different approaches using innovative ICT solutions.
The aim is to achieve integrated, patient-centred care using integrated, out-of-hospital care and tailored interventions. By improving productivity, communication and collaboration in ICT integration, the project aims to improve treatment outcomes and, consequently the quality of life of patients.
Purpose or aim of the challenge
The challenge aims to reduce the hospitalisation time for hip replacement procedures from an average of 7 days to 2 days without compromising patient safety.
To this end, developing and implementing innovative psychosocial and technical approaches that contribute to the reliability of the services and reduce psychosocial challenges for patients is essential.
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