News
An update on project activities
COVID-19 has greatly changed the health care landscape, including procurement of both routine items and innovation. The PIPPI project is committed to delivering its pre-pandemic aims in addition to exploring and including the ways that COVID-19 has changed and will continue to alter the field. After a pause in response to conditions at the local institutions, the project team anticipates close collaboration with stakeholders across health care to envision a strong and responsive innovation procurement system.
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.
