Programme: COSME
Project Status: ONGOING
What aims and scope
To improve healthcare efficiency, quality and environmental sustainability through innovation procurement. Furthermore, the project will work towards achieving the following:
- Connecting EU-supported research and development to procurement outcomes
- Improving the use of innovation potential in SMEs to support healthcare outcomes
- Strengthening market demand for innovation by enhancing the capability of hospitals to engage in multilateral and collaborative actions
- Seeking options and opportunities for joint procurement when feasible and if they add value in terms of outcomes and innovation
How it will become possible
The European-funded project will execute four primary actions to reach the aforementioned goals, including:
- Implementing five leader-led innovation procurement (PPI) projects within the healthcare sector in important challenge areas that have good potential for aggregation of demand and wider replication
- Undertaking market engagement actions to catalyse interest from potential solution providers including innovative SMEs and EU-funded project beneficiaries
- Developing and testing mechanisms for collaborative and joint procurement actions within the consortium and with third-party buyers throughout the innovation procurement life cycle
- Building and enabling buyer groups that extend beyond the country, or region, of the leading hospital for each of the leader-led projects
Where EHMA will deliver