Demonstrating the in-service use of the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EEHRxF) in healthcare settings
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Programme Name
Programme Description
Digital Europe Programme is the first EU programme that aims to accelerate the recovery and drive the digital transformation of Europe.
Worth €7.6 billion (in current prices), the Programme is a part of the next long-term EU budget, (the Multiannual Financial Framework), and it covers 2021 to 2027. It will provide funding for projects in five crucial areas: supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills, and ensuring the wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society.
The Programme is fine-tuned to fill the gap between the research of digital technologies and their deployment, and to bring the results of research to the market – for the benefit of Europe’s citizens and businesses, and in particular SMEs. Investments under the Digital Europe programme supports the Union’s twin objectives of a green transition and digital transformation and strengthens the Union’s resilience and strategic autonomy.
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Call
Summary
The objective of this action is to showcase in-service, sustainable implementation of the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EEHRxF) in healthcare settings. In particular, it will aim at demonstrating that the EEHRxF brings value, without introducing undue burden on health professionals and health systems. The result of this action will be real-world demonstrators of the EEHRxF that will guide other stakeholders to adopt the EEHRxF, reduce the costs for its adoption and produce lessons learned.
Detailed Call Description
The scope of proposal(s) covers real-world, reference, mature (TRL-9 or equivalent) and complete implementation of EEHRxF demonstrators in operational healthcare settings that fully support collection and exchange of health data in priority categories for the EHDS. Examples of data categories in these demonstrators include ePrescriptions, eDispensations, patient summaries, medical images and imaging reports, laboratory results and hospital discharge reports. The project, or projects, selected as part of this call should go beyond analysis and design and shall focus on the longer-term deployment, operation and use of the EEHRxF.
The specific activities covered by this action are to:
- Collect information on technical and non-technical challenges in EEHRxF adoption and data entry tools, including those using free text analysis by health professionals;
- Design, implement and deploy user-friendly EEHRxF demonstrators and data entry tools in operational clinical settings across multiple sites, considering expansion and sustainability;
- Through real-world implementations, demonstrate the added value of the use of the EEHRxF and its user friendliness for health professionals and cost effectiveness for health systems, by:
- increasing the availability of high-quality and structured health data;
- increasing interoperability of health data for healthcare services at local, regional, national and European level;
- increasing quality and completeness of health data included in electronic health records for use at national level and across borders through MyHealth@EU;
- increasing the accessibility for patients to their health data using the EEHRxF;
- increasing the cost-effectiveness and sustainability for health systems.
- Provide guidelines for the implementation of the EEHRxF, following the lessons learnt from the demonstrators, including technical and non-technical aspects.
The active participation of data providers and users from the project’s inception is highly recommended since it will ensure that the action is designed and structured to meet their needs, making the action more relevant and leading to increased adoption rates and a stronger sense of ownership of data providers and users by the end of the project’s runtime.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
50%
Maximum grant amount per project: €4.000.000
Thematic Categories
- Health
- Information Technology
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Large Enterprises
- Legal Entities
- Local Authorities
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- non-EU countries:
- EEA countries (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein)
- other countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme (list of participating countries)
Targeted stakeholders: The consortium can include public and private entities such as (but not limited to): public administrations and Member State authorities (e.g. digital health authorities, national contact points for eHealth in MyHealth@EU), hospitals, medical centres, end users (such as patients’ and healthcare professionals’ organisations), not-for-profit organisations, industry (particularly, electronic health record systems manufacturers) and SMEs.
All stakeholders shall be able to demonstrate a good understanding of analysis, including cost-benefit analysis, and assessment of implementation of tools in clinical settings, and writing recommendations. Stakeholders should also be able to demonstrate a good understanding of healthcare system and practical experience of ICT implementation, user friendliness etc.
Consortium composition – Proposals must be submitted by:
minimum 5 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 5 different eligible countries.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy
Directorate of Research and Innovation
Eleana Gabriel
Telephone: +357 22 691918
Email: egabriel@dmrid.gov.cy
EU Contact Point
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