Abstract
By 2000 the European Union (EU) had recognized that its innovation capacity was underperforming in comparison to similar competitors and trading partners. Although the EU has made an effort to stimulate public research and development (R&D) through policy tools like Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) and Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI), starting with the 2000 Lisbon strategy and continuing through the 2021 updated Guidance on Innovation Procurement, there has remained a gap in knowledge of and use of these tools, in particular within healthcare. The past decades have seen an explosion in the number and use of digital technologies across the entire spectrum of healthcare. Demand-driven R&D has lagged here, while new digital health R&D has largely been driven by the supply side in a linear fashion, which can have disappointing results. PCP and PPI could have big impacts on the development and uptake of innovative health technology. The Platform for Innovation of Procurement and Procurement of Innovation (PiPPi) project was a Horizon 2020-funded project that ran from December 2018 to May 2022 with a consortium including seven of Europe's premier research hospitals and the Catalan Agency for Health Information. To promote PCP and PPI, PiPPi established a virtual Community of Practice (CoP) that brings together all stakeholder groups to share and innovate around unmet healthcare needs. This perspective presents a brief history of PCP and PPI in Europe with a focus on digital innovation in healthcare before introducing the PiPPi project and its value proposition.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 1000590 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Public Health |
| Volume | 10 |
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| Publication status | Published - 12 Jan 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The Platform for Innovation of Procurement and Procurement of Innovation (PiPPi) was an international consortium project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research framework program that ran from December 2018 to May 2022. The project consortium included Karolinska University Hospital (Sweden), Erasmus MC (the Netherlands), King's College London NHS Foundation Trust (UK), Vall d'Hebron University Hospital (Spain), San Raffaele Hospital (Italy), the Catalan Agency for Health Information, Assessment and Quality (Spain), Helsinki University Hospital (Finland), and the Medical University of Vienna (Austria). The overarching goal of the project was to capture unmet needs of university hospitals and to identify opportunities for innovation in digital health and care services.
Funding Information:
This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 826157.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2023 Andrews, Long, Ahlberg, Balvert, Alessandrello, Lazzari, Timmermann, Nouri Janian, Rantaniska, Spence, Söderman, Valls-Comamala and Stamm.
UN SDGs
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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