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The perspective of the industry on identifying and addressing unmet needs in health care.

Thursday, 15 April 2021, 11am – 12pm CET

Program

• Welcome by Martina Ahlberg, Coordinator of the PiPPi-project
• Introduction of the 4th webinar by Kristina Groth, PiPPi-project member
• Presentation by Menno Kok, Director of EIT-Health Belgium & The Netherlands
• Presentation by Paul van Dun, Director of KU Leuven Research and Development
• Panel discussion with the speakers and all participants

Speakers and Panel Members

Martina Ahlberg, Innovation Program Manager, Karolinska University Hospital.

Martina Ahlberg is Innovation Program Manager at the Center for Innovation of Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. Her background is in med tech with management positions within business development and change management.

Kristina Groth, Innovation Manager, Karolinska University Hospital.

Kristina Groth is a teacher and former Adjunct Professor in Human-Computer Interaction and an expert in telemedicine and user centered/service design. As Innovation Manager at the Center for Innovation of Karolinska University Hospital, she is responsible for the Innovation Program Healthcare at a Distance.

Menno Kok, Director of Belgium & The Netherlands, EIT-Health.

Menno Kok is Director of EIT-Health Belgium & The Netherlands. He has been the executive director of Medical Delta, an initiative in the South-West of the Netherlands that promotes the development and application of life-science and medical technology solutions in health care and industry.

Paul van Dun, Director of Research and Development, KU Leuven.

Paul van Dun is Director of KU Leuven Research and Development where his portfolio includes Intellectual Property and the development and fostering of Entrepreneurship at a research intensive university.

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Continuous monitoring and engagement of patients along the specialized or highly specialized care path – within as well as outside of the hospital.

How can this challenge be addressed by the multi-stakeholder approach of PiPPi?

Thursday, 18 March 2021, 11am – 12pm CET

Program

• Introduction of the identified unmet need and digital challenge: "Continuous monitoring and engagement of patients along the specialized or highly specialized care path – within as well as outside of the hospital", by Jan Hazelzet, PiPPi-project member
• Presentations by medical professionals who have been involved in identifying the challenge:
• Frieder Braunschweig, Director of the Cardiology Department, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
• Ricard Ferrer, Head of the Intensive Care Department, Vall d'Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
• Panel discussion with the speakers and panel members:
• Christina Åkerman, Chair of EIT Health High Value Care Forum
• Axel Verstrael, Member of the European Society of Cardiology Patient Forum
• Q & A's with all participants

Speakers and Panel Members

Jan Hazelzet, Professor in Health Care Quality and Outcome, Erasmus MC.

Jan Hazelzet is Professor in Health Care Quality & Outcome at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He has a long clinical experience as Pediatric Intensivist and Associate-Professor in Pediatrics. He has gradually moved to the field of information and quality, first in the position of Chief Medical Information Officer, later as Professor in Health Care Quality & Outcome. He was the Clinical Lead of the Value-Based Health Care Program at Erasmus MC and the shift towards more Patient-Centered Care. He is active in several (inter-)national consortia, such as EUHA.

Frieder Braunschweig, Director of the Cardiology Department, Karolinska University Hospital.

Ricard Ferrer, Head of the Intensive Care Department, Vall d'Hebron Hospital.

Ricard Ferrer is Head of the Intensive Care Department at Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain. He has published a number of articles, and contributed to book chapters in the field of sepsis and severe infections. He holds several positions at intensive care societies and is President of the Spanish Society of Intensive Care (SEMICYUC) and Member of the steering committee of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign.

Christina Åkerman, Senior Advisor and Chair of EIT Health High Value Care Forum, EIT Health.

Christina Åkerman is Senior Advisor at EIT Health and Chair of EIT Health High Value Care Forum. She is a member of the Advisory Board and Affiliate Faculty at Dell Medical School, University of Texas, Austin, US. Until August 2018, she was the President of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM). She was the Director General for the Medical Products Agency in Sweden, Member of the Board of the European Medicines Agency and President of AstraZeneca, Philippines.

Axel Verstrael, Co-founder and Frontman, Streetwaves.

Axel Verstrael is Co-founder & Frontman of Streetwaves, where mobility meets everyday life. He is a volunteer as Patient Ambassador at the Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Belgium, Member of the European Society of Cardiology Patient Forum and Member of the European Society of Cardiology Digital Committee.

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Thursday, 18 February 2021, 11am – 12pm CET

Speakers:

Martina Ahlberg, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, project coordinator.

Martina Ahlberg is Innovation Program Manager at the Center for Innovation of Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. Her background is in med tech with management positions within business development and change management. During the past eight years Martina has been involved in a large number of PCPs (Pre-Commercial Procurement) and PPIs (Public Procurement of Innovation Solutions).

Andy Bleaden, Director Ecosystems and Membership, European Connected Health Alliance.

Andy Bleaden has a career in funding and social care of over 25 years and is currently working in Greater Manchester at Stockport, specialized in Adult Social Care, Robotics, Telehealth and Telemedicine, Regeneration and Dementia. He formed alliances with pan-European groups, such as the EIP-AHA, Coral and Covenant for Demographic Change. He has been working as an External Expert for the EC, EIT and the new Urban Innovation Actions.

Panel Members:

Jan Hazelzet, Pediatric Intensivist and Professor in Health Care Quality & Outcome, Erasmus MC.

Jan A. Hazelzet, has a long clinical experience as Pediatric Intensivist and Associate-Professor in Pediatrics. He has gradually moved to the field of information and quality, first in the position of Chief Medical Information Officer, later as Professor in Health Care Quality & Outcome. He was the Clinical Lead of the Value-Based Health Care Program at Erasmus MC and the shift towards more Patient-Centered Care. He is active in several (inter-)national consortia, such as EUHA.

Tanja Stamm, Head of the Institute for Outcomes Research, Medical University of Vienna.

Tanja Stamm is Head of the Institute for Outcomes Research and Deputy Director of the Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems at the Medical University of Vienna. She combines clinical expertise with advanced research skills in data science. She has pioneered work in various medical fields, including rheumatology and musculoskeletal health, rehabilitation, diabetes, dietary, public health and oral health. Since October 2020, Tanja Stamm coordinates the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Health Outcomes Observatories H2O Project.

Ramon Maspons, Chief Innovation Officer, AQuAS.

Ramon Maspons is Chief  Innovation Officer at  AQuAS - Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia. In the last nine years  he has been leading programs of procurement of innovation and value based procurement. He has over twenty years of experience in hospital and medical innovation and internationally funded (EU) research projects. He has hold strategic and management positions at EIT-KIC Health, Biocat, Granollers City Council, and IALE Tecnologia, a spin-off company of Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC).

The webinar presented the PiPPi project in more detail. Who are its partners and stakeholders? Which unmet needs in healthcare have PiPPi and its stakeholders identified so far? What is a CoP and how is PiPPi going to build one? How could you participate? As an example of a successful CoP, the European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance) was presented.

Program

• Introduction of PiPPi, by Martina Ahlberg

• Presentation of ECHAlliance, by Andy Bleaden

• Q & A and panel discussion with all participants and speakers

This webinar was the second in a series organized by the Platform for Innovation of Procurement and Procurement of Innovation (PiPPi).

PiPPi aims to capture unmet needs of university hospitals and to identify opportunities for innovation in digital health and care services. In order to do so PiPPi, is building a Community of Practice that involves all critical stakeholders: patients, medical professionals, researchers, policymakers, innovators, entrepreneurs and industrial representatives.

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Thursday 21 January 2021, 11am – 12pm CET

Speakers:

Martina Ahlberg, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, project coordinator.

Martina Ahlberg is Innovation Program Manager at the Center for Innovation of Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. Her background is in med tech with management positions within business development and change management. During the past eight years Martina has been involved in a large number of PCPs (Pre-Commercial Procurement) and PPIs (Public Procurement of Innovation Solutions).

Lasse Lehtonen, Strategic Development Director, Helsinki University Hospital.

Lasse Lehtonen is Professor of Health law at the University of Helsinki and Director of Diagnostic services in Helsinki University Hospital (HUS), Finland. These diagnostic services cover a population of 2 million people in Southern Finland. He has been a member in several Finnish and international expert groups including the EXPH expert panel of the European Commission. As an expert of healthcare and law he has taught procurement law for several years.

Francesco Gardenal, Product Owner at VORTAL, Milan.

Francesco Gardenal is an expert in public procurement and e-procurement with 12+ years of activity working in the public sector and for leading e-procurement solution providers. During his career he provided consultancy on procurement issues to over 500 contracting authorities in Italy. He regularly researches on the topics of public procurement performance optimization, digital transformation and change management, with publications cited in scholarly articles. Francesco is an active member of the International Public Procurement Conference network.

René Dullaart, Manager Procurement and Facilities, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam.

René Dullaart is responsible for strategic and operational procurement at Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Formerly, he has worked as the global head of sourcing at a large medical device distributor, mainly driving the sourcing of own brand medical devices. This gave him the unique opportunity to gain insights in all steps of the full supply chain of medical devices. His experience has proven to be valuable during the Covid-19 crisis, when local market players got cut off from their supplies.

One year ago the SARS-CoV-2 virus emerged, that since then has distorted economies and healthcare systems worldwide. In most countries, the first and second wave of infections and cases of Covid-19 have posed enormous challenges, not only for epidemiological models, test capacities, public health policies and clinical treatment, but also for rapid and effective procurement of medical equipment.

During the crisis all actors have learned valuable lessons. Experience and research results gained in the first wave have provided insights that can be deployed for prevention and to fight the second. At the same time new challenges occur, also in the field of healthcare procurement. For example the procurement of patient monitoring and allocation software, improved (rapid) tests and vaccines.

After a short introduction of the PiPPi-project, speakers involved in the procurement of medical equipment and technology for university hospitals in Europe will share their experiences. They will look back at the turmoil of the first months of the crisis, present their lessons learned and look forward to the challenges ahead. After their presentations there will be time for Q and A’s.

This webinar is the first in a series organized by the Platform for Innovation of Procurement and Procurement of Innovation (PiPPi).

PiPPi aims to capture unmet needs of university hospitals and to identify opportunities for innovation in digital health and care services. In order to do so PiPPi, is building a Community of Practice that involves all critical stakeholders: patients, medical professionals, researchers, policymakers, innovators, entrepreneurs and industrial representatives.