All posts under ‘WP2 - eHealth’

Workshop 8.12. in Copenhagen on Public Procurement and Innovation within the Health Sector / Nordic countries

As an initiative of the Nordic Council of Ministers and Nordic Innovation a workshop was organized 8.12. 2011  in Copenhagen.

The aim of this joint initiative is to speed up and facilitate Nordic cooperation within the Innovative public procurement field, with specific emphasis on the Health sector. Another positive impact is hopefully alignment with EU initiatives as advocated in the Horizon 2020 strategy and upcoming EU work programmes.

The presentations from the workshop, including one on Preco-project findings,  can be found on the links to SlideShare from the news article below:

http://www.nordicinnovation.org/news/public-procurement-within-health-care-on-the-agenda-in-copenhagen/

High level event on Innovation / PCP / eHealth in Helsinki 13.10.2011

This Medi-Evening event was organized by key organizations of the Finnish eHealth Innovation scene  in collaboration with the Preco coordinator. The aim was to introduce PCP to wider audiences, which were mostly not familiar with PCP as an instrument. The keynote speech was delivered by Mr. Brian Winn from NHS National innovation Center. The subsequent discussion was supported by the Preco coordinator.

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The first PCP call for tender in Italy: a pilot project in South Tyrol

In October 2011, the Autonomous Province of Bolzano / Bozen, Italy, also known as South Tyrol, launched their first PCP “Closed Loop” call for tender to get radiotherapy appliances developed and supplied.

One of the first examples of true pre-commercial procurement call for tender to be set up in the European Union, the PCP call can be downloaded from the Bolzano Province official website www.bandi-altoadige.it along with all the relevant documents, forms and guidelines for participation. Available both in Italian and German, the call for tender has been set up according to the specific point of view of the local administrators and shared with the DG Information Society and Media  of the European Commission.

eChallenges e-2011 Conference and Exhibition

PreCo themes eHealth and co-creation/ Living labs among the conference issues at : eChallenges e-2011 Conference & Exhibition taking place in Florence, Italy, 26 – 28 October.  

http://www.echallenges.org/e2011/default.asp

Smart Personal Health -project

Project web pages: http://sph.continuaalliance.org/index.html

Belfast workshop June 2010 - Enabling Integrated Care:

Procuring personal health systems

http://sph.continuaalliance.org/eventsBelfast.html

ePractice workshop: “Procurement of eHealth solutions”, Brussels 7.10.2010

The European Commission DG INFSO eHealth unit workshop programme

http://www.epractice.eu/en/workshops/ehealth

with presentations from two PreCo -partners Suzan Ikävalko http://www.epractice.eu/files/E-health%20procurement%20-%20Suzan%20Ikavalko.pdf

and Max Rolfstam http://www.epractice.eu/files/13%20-%20Rolfstam_ehealthsol_bru_2010.ppt

 Any comments mostly wellcome!

Smart Personal Health, workshop on “Procuring personal health systems”, 17th June 2010 in Belfast

A background paper on how to advance integrated and personal patient care through procurement taking into accout issues such as interoperability. Procurers have to consider requirements of and benefits for a wide range of stakeholders; patients, clinicians, administration, insurance companies and the authorities.  Procurers can play a key role in driving market development towards standards based interoperability and deployment of more innovative eHealth solutions.

Can Pre-Commercial Public Procurement (PCP) address these questions in a more innovative, cost-effective  and end-user friendly way? Please provide input and share your experience  with us on this subject.

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European Connected Leadership Summit 2010 in Belfast

PreCo eHealth presentation:

ECH Summit Slides Ikävalko June2010

For more information on European Connecetd Health Campus (ECHC),  including the complete Summit programme, speakers and presentations:

www.echcampus.com

Conference on Health Economics in Copenhagen 14 April 2010

A paper on pre-commercial procurement presented at the conference on Health Economics in Copenhagen organised by Danish Institute for Health Services Research

Max Rolfstam: Public Procurement of Innovation and Health in Denmark Max_ Rolfstam_2010

Innovative Public Procurement in the domain of eHealth

Vinnova Conference September 2009: Can public procurement spur innovations in health care? http://www.vinnova.se/en/Press/Calendar/2009/091013-Public-Procurement-of-Innovation/

PPI report HealthVinnova

NHS National Innovation centre M Wilkinson

The use of PPI in the UK