Background information: DigitalHealthEurope twinning
About DigitalHealthEurope project
Digital Health Europe is funded under the Horizon 2020
Programme and it aims at supporting large-scale deployment of digital solutions
for person-centered integrated care. This will be achieved by identifying,
analyzing and facilitating the replication of impactful best practices, twining
schemes and mobilization of stakeholders, thanks to the consortium’s exceptional
expertise. Moreover, the project will facilitate the forming of collaboration
platforms on key aspects of the digital transformation of health and care
priorities of the Digital Single Market. Partners have engaged to work on
several Digital Transformation of Health and Care priorities, starting from the
citizens secure access to European Health Records and sharing their health data,
better data to advance research, improvement of digital tools for citizen
empowerment and person-centered integrated care interaction between patients and
healthcare providers.
The CEI Executive Secretariat will participate in the
identification of European digital services for person-centered integrated care,
and of funding support service for person-centered integrated care initiatives,
in elaboration and promotion of building blocks and finally in bringing together
national and regional initiatives on citizens’ access and management of their
health data. Last but not least, thanks to its Member Countries, the CEI
provides a very suitable framework for policy dialogue, knowledge sharing and
cross-fertilization. Hence, the CEI will also ensure outreach to its
well-established networks in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
https://digitalhealtheurope.eu
What exactly are twinnings?
Twinnings are a mechanism for facilitating the transfer and
implementation of digitally-enabled innovative practices from one region to
another. The approach has been successfully applied in a number of EU projects
and studies, including the ScaleAHA study, which funded 20 twinnings.
The region/country with the innovative practice is called
Twinning Originator, and the implementing region/country is referred to as
Twinning Adopter. There can be more than one Twinning Adopter per twinning. In
some cases, third parties may be involved, e.g. as an external facilitator or as
tenderer/Twinning Contractor.
Interested organisations and individuals will first exchange
ideas on twinning solutions which they can offer or would like to adopt. A
twinning marketplace is set up by DigitalHealthEurope to facilitate the
matchmaking process. Potential Twinning Originators can post about their
available twinning solutions, and those wishing to be Twinning Adopters can
specify their twinning solution requirements.
Twinning Activities may include, for example, hosting meetings,
technical groups, travelling, acquiring licenses, paying fees for professional
services, etc. Twinnings typically last up to one year, depending on complexity
and Twinning Type.
More details about these twinnings are available at:
https://digitalhealtheurope.eu/twinnings/about-twinnings.html
https://digitalhealtheurope.eu/twinnings.html
What is the funding?
DigitalHealthEurope will fund more than 45 twinnings. The
total budget for all twinnings to be funded in this call is €932,000. Depending
on the type and ambition, the budget per twinning may range from €5,000
for
knowledge exchange & training up to €43,000 for full adoption of the digital
solution.
What types of twinnings are being funded?
Twinnings range from knowledge exchange to adaptation or adoption of the
transferred solution and can be grouped into four types: knowledge exchange and
training, adaptation, partial adoption, and full adoption/acquisition.
Details about these types are available at
https://digitalhealtheurope.eu/twinnings/twinning-types.html
What can a twinning solution look like?
Twinnings can focus on different Twinning Solutions. Examples
of possible Twinning Solutions and topics are provided below.
Priority 1: Citizens’ secure access to and sharing of health data across borders
► Citizens’ secure access to their health data - e.g., via secure online portal,
citizen’ access to electronic health records, personal health records, shared
with health professionals
► Interoperable electronic health records deployed at national and regional
level enabling citizens' secure access to and sharing of health data
► General Data Protection Regulation-compliant, secure health data exchange
► Citizen-enabled sharing of health data across borders: patient summary and/or
ePrescription, discharge letter, medical images, lab results
Priority 2: Better data to promote research, disease prevention and personalised
health and care
► ICT infrastructure for personalised medicine, -omics databanks, biomedical
infrastructures
► National/regional genomics strategy (incl. digital genomics)
► Whole genome sequencing
► Use of real-world data (RWD)
► Health data analytics (Artificial Intelligence, algorithm development and
calibration, machine learning, risk stratification tools, etc.)
Priority 3: Digital tools for citizen empowerment and for person-centred care
Citizen/patient-focused solutions:
► ICT support to health education, digital health literacy
► Digital tools supporting proactive prevention
► mHealth systems, wearable devices for monitoring and prevention, alerts &
reminders
► Digital tools for patient feedback and reporting of outcomes
Professionals’ solutions:
► Advanced ICT for Integrated Care, incl. integration of health and social care
services
► Interoperable digital solutions for person-centred care
► Regional and national Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems and ePrescription
solutions enabling person-centred care
► Digital shared care plan (e.g., support to multi-disciplinary team)
Where can I find a suitable twinning partner?
To facilitate the forming of twinnings, DigitalHealthEurope offers an
online
twinning marketplace where Twinning Originators can post about their available
Twinning Solutions, and Twinning Adopters can specify their requirements. This
will enable matchmaking and preparation of a twinning tender.
The twinning marketplace can be accessed via
https://digitalhealtheurope.eu/twinnings/twinning-marketplace.html
Participation in the marketplace is not a prerequisite for participation in this
call.
What else is there to know?
A twinning schedule is provided below. If you want to participate and
find out
more about twinnings, visit the
DigitalHealthEurope website or contact the
project at
https://digitalhealtheurope.eu/contact.html.
Date |
Activity |
11.06.2019 |
Publication of the Call for Twinning Tenders documents on
digitalhealtheurope.eu/ |
14.06.2019 |
Webinar 1 for tenderers (expected date) |
25.06.2019 |
Webinar 2 for tenderers (expected date) |
07.08.2019 |
Deadline for submission of twinning tenders |
16.09.2019 |
Award decision and notification |
14.10.2019 |
Start of twinning activities
for all twinning types (= M1) |