News
An update on project activities
In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, work on the PIPPI project at the partner sites has been slowed and/or paused based on local situations. We look forward to working with you in the future on the procurement of innovation and innovative procurement strategies in health care.
An update on our work to build out capabilities in the PIPPI CoP and identify digital challenges
In our work on building a process for the Community of Practice (CoP), we are facilitating the capability to identify, formulate and prepare to address a cross-border unmet need in the digital health and services area.
We would like to share the progress of our ongoing work with regard to identifying a cross-border digital unmet need. This is an ongoing work and we will continuously update our progress and findings.
- Process mapping -- Each site has mapped their regular approach to identify current unmet needs in their respective organization. The implications of local processes in terms of enabling/disabling HCP to interact with the CoP process is a major concern for the PIPPI CoP.
- Digital challenges -- A short-list of about 20 digital challenges has been identified. Among these, several common grounds have emerged. Initially some of the most significant to be identified are: interoperability, aggregation of data, and patient empowerment.
- Next steps -- The next step forward is to further detail and validate unmet needs with the experts and management in the respective sites, as well as with central stakeholders.
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Horizon 2020 project, PIPPI, advances innovation procurement in health care through participation in expert workshop and international collaboration
EU project shares best practices at Brussels workshop
(Brussels, 17.10.2019) A consortium of seven leading European university hospitals and AQuAS, the Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia, is working to develop and accelerate cross-border procurement of innovation in health care. The project, called "PIPPI" (Platform for Procurement of Innovation and Innovation of Procurement) and funded through the EU Horizon 2020 programme, recently contributed insights to an EU workshop on best practices of innovation procurement.
Coordinator Martina Ahlberg, of Karolinska University Hospital, presented project details to an audience of industry and health care experts. Ahlberg gave an overview of the key components of PIPPI, including the main goal of building an international Community of Practice (CoP) to advance the use of innovation procurement in health care.
"Pre-commercial procurement and public private initiatives will drive digital innovations in health care. Within our PIPPI project, leading European University Hospitals will be able to purchase technology even before it is developed. The EU workshop on innovation procurement was very valuable to have an opportunity to share and gain knowledge, experience and learnings from so many different and EU experts on the core of what PIPPI is building, a CoP that can make available, gather and share innovations in digital health care," said Ahlberg regarding her participation in the workshop.
The workshop, hosted by the European Commission's Directorates-General for Research and Innovation and for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT), focused on cross-border innovation procurement in health. Approximately 100 participants saw presentations on innovation procurement instruments such as Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) and Public Procurement of Innovative solutions (PPI) and new PCP & PPI funding opportunities for 2020. Participants discussed best practices of designing and implementing successful projects and networked with the relevant and representative audience of procurers, potential suppliers, regional or umbrella organisations, and regulators.
"The sharing of knowledge and experience from EU staff as well as PCP and PPI projects across Europe is a great inspiration and shows how shared knowledge can make 1+1 become 3," Ahlberg concluded.
King’s College Hospital hosts biannual PIPPI meeting in London
(London, 25.09.2019) Following face-to-face meetings of the PIPPI consortium in Vienna and Rotterdam, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London had the pleasure of hosting the September PIPPI group meeting.
The meeting saw progress made on several fronts, including work on stakeholder identification and engagement planning as well as collating input from all partner hospitals and synthesizing it into a usable format for the development and establishment of the Community of Practice. Visitors to King’s also heard from Consultant Neurologist Dr. James Teo, who presented on the Cogstack project, which is an innovative solution that uses existing health care data and artificial intelligence to provide insights for clinicians and managers in order to better meet the needs of patients.
Innovations to address clinical challenges
The Pan-European PIPPI project brings together relevant stakeholders, including hospitals and research institutions, industry partners, health professionals and patients, to identify digital health care needs and develop innovative solutions for said needs. The platform combines expertise on digital health care, patient-centred care and supply- and demand-side procurement to jointly address these unmet clinical challenges.
The following institutions are involved in the project: Karolinska University Hospital (Sweden), Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam (Netherlands), San Raffaele Hospital (Italy), Medical University of Vienna (Austria), Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus (Spain), Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (Spain), Helsinki University Hospital (Finland) and King's College Hospital (England).
PIPPI is funded by Horizon2020, the European Union's Research Framework Programme. The project began in December 2018 and runs until 2021.
Contact: martina.ahlberg@sll.se (project coordinator), tanja.stamm@meduniwien.ac.at (project communication lead), margaret.andrews@meduniwien.ac.at (newsletter signup)
PIPPI a Finalist for the Amparo Poch Awards
The PIPPI Project has been selected as a finalist in the I Call for the Amparo Poch Awards for Public Procurement of Health Innovation in the category of: Best public procurement initiative in health innovation 2019!
Team members from Vall d’Hebron will present the project at the II Innovative Public Procurement Congress on 25 October in Zaragoza, Spain.
The winner will be announced on the same day.
More about the Amparo Poch Awards
These awards recognize the efforts of public institutions to implement the use of Public Procurement of Innovation in the field of health care. The aim is to respond to relevant and complex issues such as the epidemiological transition, ageing populations and care in remote areas, while also functioning as an engine for sustainable growth. The awards are intended for unpublished projects that represent a substantial improvement in health or in the care model.
Public institutions related to the health sector may apply for one of two categories:
- Best Public Health Innovation Procurement
- Best initiative for the promotion of Public Procurement of Innovation
The Amparo Poch Awards are endowed with an economic prize. The selected works will be presented on 25 October during the II National Congress of CPI in Health in Zaragoza, organized by the IACS Chair of Public Procurement of Innovation in Health. These works will also be published on the web pages of Public Procurement of Innovation of the Government of Aragon and the Observatory of Public Procurement.
Visit the website (in Spanish)
Swedish Karolinska University Hospital coordinates a consortium of leading European university hospitals to address innovation of procurement in healthcare
(December 13th, 2018) A consortium of seven leading European university hospitals, coordinated by Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden, will join efforts to innovate procurement of digital health and care services. The project will engage all stakeholders, such as hospitals, developers, industrial partners, medical researchers and health professionals as well as patients, in order to address unmet needs in hospital services and develop methods for procurement of innovation. The project is funded by Horizon2020, the European Union research framework program. It kicked-off during the first project meeting in Vienna on December 3rd, 2018, and will run until 2021.
The digital transformation of healthcare asks for the procurement of innovative solutions for which public-private collaborations are essential. Currently, these collaborations are often reactive and not fully connected with healthcare needs and stakeholders’ involvement.
To address this challenge, the Platform for Procurement of Innovation and Innovation of Procurement will create a cross-border Community of Practice of European university hospitals says Nicke Svanvik, Director of Innovation and Development at the Karolinska University Hospital and he continues, the platform brings together expertise on digital healthcare, patient-centered care and procurement from the demand and supply side with the ultimate aim to address shared unsolved clinical challenges.
Platform for Procurement of Innovation and Innovation of Procurement is a Collaboration & Support Action under Horizon2020, funded with a grant of €3 million by the European Commission. Partners in the consortium are Karolinska University Hospital (Sweden), Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam (the Netherlands), San Raffaele Hospital (Italy), Medizinische Universität Wien (Austria), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus (Spain), Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (Spain), Helsinki University Hospital (Finland) and King’s College Hospital (United Kingdom).
