The NWE-Chance (Interreg NWE) and the Digital Innovation Hub
Project impact
Supports collaboration and knowledge exchange between SMEs and hospitals
Ensures continuous growth of industry-hospital partnerships
Delivers an Implementation Roadmap to replicate innovations in other regions and initiate similar projects and living labs
The North West Europe Interreg CHANCE Project, completed in May 2022, focused on Hospital at Home innovation for heart failure patients in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. It developed SME capabilities, tested home hospitalisation platforms in three hospitals, and collaborated with DHI to establish global protocols.
The North West Europe Interreg CHANCE Project was completed in May 2022. The project focused on Hospital at Home innovation for heart failure patients with partners in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. The project brought stakeholders together to co-create the knowledge needed to enable innovation in-home care to happen in North-West Europe.
The project contributed to developing SME capabilities and increasing their involvement in cooperative projects in the region.
During the project, two SMEs and one larger company collaborated with three hospitals and two universities to develop and test a home hospitalisation platform. Pilots ran in three different hospitals to test the technical feasibility of the developed technologies and the organisational feasibility of home hospitalisation for heart failure patients.
DHI led the Digital Innovation Hub for Home Hospitalisation (DIH) and collaborated with partners to establish protocols, developments and specifications enabling global collaborations in hospital-at-home activities across industry, health services and academia.
Summary
This Digital Innovation Hub was developed by DHI and was launched to:
• Support the collaboration and knowledge exchange between SMEs and hospitals
• Ensure continuity and growth of the collaboration between industry and hospitals
• Deliver an Implementation Roadmap to multiply the innovations in other regions and initiate similar
projects and living labs
• Develop an infrastructure to enable knowledge sharing and collaboration to be replicable across other
activities such as projects and disease groups of other areas of digital health and care.
Impact & value
The DHI project was completed in May 2022, after which the Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) transitioned into business as usual within DHI. Building on the success of the original project, DIH continues to support wider knowledge sharing across digital health and care communities, projects and engagement activity.
This work has since expanded and now represents a core function of the DHI website. It supports a range of dedicated communities and initiatives, including the Digital Mental Health Innovation Cluster, the Rural Centre of Excellence and the Healthy Ageing Innovation Cluster, helping to connect people, share learning and accelerate innovation across the system.
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