The European HealthChain I3 project

The European project HealthChain I3 (Interregional Innovation Investment) promotes the deployment of innovative digital solutions in healthcare, addressing market needs, addressing the challenges perceived by healthcare organisations and involving private companies in developing digital solutions through a new cascading financing instrument.

The project’s ultimate goal is to improve the delivery of healthcare services and accelerate the market uptake of digital solutions.

HealthChain brings together the knowledge and experience of five regional ecosystems to foster co-creation and collaboration between different stakeholders in the digitalisation of healthcare.

It creates value chains between local and international stakeholders, thus stimulating investment and positively impacting European companies and SMEs more competitive in the global market. 

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Connecting mirror regions

Creating an effective health environment that works for all stakeholders depends on the strength of the value chains established within health systems.

The circularity of the healthcare system dictates that the proposed solution models are interdependent.

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Healthcare organisations, internal staff and external users of healthcare services, SMEs/IT companies, regional ecosystem supporters, and supporters of healthcare companies in local and international regions work in a coordinated way to create appropriate solutions in collaboration with external users.

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5 ecosystem regions are involved in the project

• Murcia, Spain

• Centro, Portugal

• Western Slovenia

• Croatia, Primorska

• Goranska Region

• Eastern Netherland

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​Easier entry into the healthcare ecosystem

Why?

• Rationalisation of time and financial investments

• Collaborative innovation

• Impact on tendering processes

• Connecting regional and European stakeholders

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​Slovenian challenge: Reducing the length of hospitalization for hip replacement surgery

Within the umbrella project, Slovenian partners are addressing a challenge focusing on reducing the length of hospitalization for hip replacement surgery (2 days instead of 7 days) in older people. This maintains the efficiency, safety and quality of the current level of care while allowing patients to enjoy a better quality of life. 

The project aims to address the needs, complexities and limitations of the current healthcare system.  The aim is to improve patient care and treatment outcomes and ensure health services’ sustainability and efficiency in the context of an ageing population.

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Company ZenLab d.o.o. is Leading SME in HIPRO: Improving patients’ safety and empowerment after fast-tracking hip surgery Challenge.

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Regional Partners:

Surgical Centre Rožna Dolina (KSRD)

ZenLab

Biromatik

Slovensko inovacijsko stičišče (SIS EGIZ)

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Solution: MobileCare+: Enhancing Post-Op Resilience in Fast-Track Hip Surgery

MobileCare+ is designed to revolutionize post-operative care for elderly patients following fast-track hip surgery (FTHS). This solution demonstrates significant potential in enhancing the integration of new knowledge by leveraging advanced technologies and methodologies. The main characteristics and components of MobileCare+ include a patient-centric mobile app, an HL7 FHIR big data infrastructure, a user interface for clinicians, a robust privacy and security pillar, and an advanced Language Model (LLM) pipeline for the collection of Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs). Languages supported: English and Slovenian.

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