In the past years, hospitals were the main health care providers, also in terms of health expenditure , accounting for 50% of the NHS costs in EU countries. Today hospitals are called to improve their efficiency and increase their productivity while increasing quality and safety. However, this cannot be an untaught linear cut. For instance, in Europe, the number of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds per million of habitants was cut from 10,000 beds in 1990 to less than 4k in 2020. Although this responded to the unneglectable need to invest on territorial care in response to democratic challenges, this left EU Hospital completely unprepared to the current COVID-19 pandemics. Hospital cuts should be accompanied (if not preceded) by substantial organizational restructuring, leveraging on innovative technologies. Several efforts have been already made to improve patients’ satisfaction and to increase the efficiency of care, by re-organizing health and care structures as well as providing better treatments.
ODIN is a European multi-centre pilot study focused on the enhancement of hospital safety, productivity and quality. This project will contribute to the implementation of the European Smart Hospitals of the Future.
The main objective is to deliver an open digital platform, supporting a suite of services and Key Enabling Resources (KERs) empowered by robotics, Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and specialized AI. These resources will be implemented in three Reference Areas of Hospital Interventions: workers, robots and medical locations and will be tested through seven Clinical User Cases in leading hospitals of six European countries: Spain, France, Germany, Poland Netherlands and Italy.
The platform will gather information and data from the participating hospitals and through high levels of AI, it will enable Problem Perception, Cognitive Reasoning and Knowledge Optimization. The utilization of the resulting data will translate into an optimized management and innovative products and services, enabling Value-Based Healthcare and fostering an open innovation approach between hospital partners and industrial partners to collaborate with research institutions, academia and regulatory experts, bridging the gap between healthcare suppliers and providers.
This overall objective will be supported by the following specific objectives:
O1 To deliver an open and secure decentralized platform, supporting a suite of federated services and KEY ENABLING RESOURCES (KERs) empowered by robotic solutions, augmented by IoT environments, and enhanced by extensible specialized AI.
O2 To build a dynamic and collaborative co-creation mechanism for Innovative Procurement Journey - IPJ between healthcare suppliers and providers, identifying, understanding and specifying health care challenges and needs in terms of functional requirements, to guarantee the delivery and scale-up of innovative services that are accepted, safe, trusted and compliant with current standards and rules, according to national and European legal frameworks.
O3 To implement a federated multi-centre longitudinal cohort study demonstrating the safety, effectiveness, and the cost-effectiveness of the ODIN Key Enabling Resources and platform, while assessing the impact, scalability, interoperability and innovation potential for other domains.
O4 To set up a communication and dissemination program and an exploitation strategy to reach a critical mass of users and business partners to allow the ODIN solutions to be delivered, DURING and AFTER the project lifetime
