Project description
Fostering collaboration among Digital Innovation Hubs in the area of P4 medicine
Digital technologies have the potential to speed up the transformation of the healthcare sector into predictive, preventive, personalised and participatory (P4) services. These technologies are already advancing capabilities for early detection, diagnosis, treatment, patient management, precision medicine and more. One of the key pillars of the European Commission’s Digitise European Industry effort is the development of a network of Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs). The EU-funded DIHsP4_Medicine project will identify key priority areas for application of advanced technologies in the field of P4 medicine and outline action plans to foster long-term collaboration among regional DIHs focused on these priorities. These objectives will help to enhance the competitiveness of European Health sector while improving the quality of life of its citizens.
Objective
DIHs are one-stop-shops that help companies to become more competitive with regard to their business and production processes, products or services using digital technologies. DIHs have the mission of helping companies to betteDIHs are one-stop-shops that help companies to become more competitive with regard to their business and production processes, products or services using digital technologies. DIHs have the mission of helping companies (mainly start-ups, SMEs and mid-caps) to better understand and experiment on how digital technologies can improve their efficiency, effectiveness and product quality – in other words, their competitiveness.
DIHs should have strong linkages with service providers outside of their own region in order to support companies in those services and technologies where regional DIHs do not have the requested in-house resources to provide services based on specific technologies sought by users.
In recent decades, health-related activities have evolved from a reactive approach (curing diseases) to an approach based on the P4 medicine paradigm: Predictive, Preventive, Personalised and Participatory. In this new paradigm, the use of digital technologies is key. Thanks to digital technologies such as AI or HPC and the massive generation of medical and other health-related data, traditional methods for early detection, diagnosis, treatment, patient management, precision medicine, drug development, genomics, or medical image analysis are being transformed.
DIHsP4_MEDICINE project aims to unleash the potential that exists around the collaboration among DIHs focused in health-related activities. The lessons to be learned from the activities carried out within the framework of the project will make possible to take advantage this experience for the implementation of joint long-term and stable programmes to fostering collaboration among DIHs, as well as exploring the opportunity to articulate stable Hub corridors to shape these collaborations.
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
28049 Madrid
Spain