Authors:
Vincenzo De Luca
1
;
Strahil Birov
2
;
Ozan Beyhan
3
;
Simon Robinson
2
;
Gorka Sanchez-Nanclares
4
;
Maria Del Pilar López Acuña
5
;
Adriano Fernandes
6
;
Reinhard Hammerschmidt
2
;
Giovanni Annuzzi
1
;
Guido Iaccarino
1
and
Maddalena Illario
7
Affiliations:
1
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Federico II, via S. Pansini 5, Naples and Italy
;
2
empirica Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Technologieforschung mbH, Oxfordstr. 2, Bonn and Germany
;
3
Ministry of Health Turkey, Üniversiteler Mah. 6001. Cad. No. 9, Ankara and Turkey
;
4
Servicio Murciano de Salud, Central, 7 Edificio “Habitamia”- 5ª, 30100 Murcia and Spain
;
5
FFIS, Luis Fontes Pagán, 9. 1ª, 30003 Murcia and Spain
;
6
Misericordia of Amadora, Innovation Department, Estrada da Portela - Quinta das Torres, Amadora and Portugal
;
7
UOD Programmazione e Potenziamento Programmi di Health Innovation, Regione Campania, Centro Direzionale Isola C3, Naples and Italy
Keyword(s):
Pre-Commercial Procurement, ICT, Technical Specifications, Diabetes Mellitus, Management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Analytics
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
Decision Support Systems
;
Decision Support Systems, Remote Data Analysis
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Current demographic changes require a paradigm shift in the delivery of health and social services. Wide-scale implementation of validated ICT support to clinicians and patients is essential to ensure the quality of services to future generations of citizens. Healthcare providers from four European regions – Turkey, Portugal, Campania and Murcia– have joined forces to procure an innovative ICT solution for patient empowerment and self-management for patients with diabetes mellitus. The procurement is in the form of a joint pre-commercial procurement (PCP) of Research & Development, with participation by EU industry in competitive phases of development. The PCP is part of the EU-funded project ProEmpower, which is currently in the prototype testing phase. The challenge faced by the procurers was to jointly define specifications for the envisioned solution that reflect the needs of all four regions. After an intensive year of consultations with procurers’ experts – clinicians, IT staff
, procurement specialists – ProEmpower launched a call for tender with the defined specifications, which reflect the unmet needs across the procuring regions with regards to improving management of diabetes mellitus supported by ICT. This paper presents the ProEmpower specifications, which can be easily adapted to the local conditions of any procuring region in Europe and beyond. The specifications thus represent a valuable source for any new development of ICT-supported diabetes management.
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