Pilots

Smart Health/ Personalised Medicine

About the Pilot

Personalised Medicine (PM) is strongly technological driven and will induce a transformation of how health and well-being are approached, and medicine is being implemented The convergence of knowledge on what determines health and disease or how the process of ageing is determined, with digital technologies and access to data opens a huge potential to develop new applications to improve general health secure the sustainability of our healthcare systems.
PM developments are impacting virtually all domains of modern medicine. Approaches building on the latest insights on the biological functioning of single cells is currently among the most promising areas. One of the key factors for the successful implementation of PM is the availability of standardised, accessible, processed data, which also enables the re-use of publicly available data for exploring multidisciplinary research goals. Next to access to and gathering data, the availability of a highly qualified biomedical and healthcare workforce to generate, analyze and process PM data to translate data into new products and applications is an essential requirement.

Activities & Long Term Goals

The pilot aims at realising the potential of personalised medicine as part of the S3 platforms on Industrial Modernisation. This pilot will bring the agenda to implement personalised medicine to the next level while transforming the connected European industrial value chains. The partner regions already established solid ecosystems combining biomedical, technological and data-driven expertise. By bringing these ecosystems together, a higher added value will be reached and boost the implementation of personalised medicine; it will realise an innovative approach for health and care in Europe.

The pilot is active in the four phases of the methodology. After the initial scoping, the network has been established as a learning- and co-creation community, which exchanges knowledge on a regular basis by organising tailormade workshops and connecting the different regional stakeholders in events or digital seminars. This connection is based on the quadruple helix; involving stakeholders from research & innovation, businesses and field labs, regional and local governments, hospitals and healthcare centers as well as clients and citizens. Demo-cases will be brought forth by partner regions. After an initial presentation of the demo-case proposal, complementary expertise will be assessed. A GAP- and SWOT-analysis will highlight the knowledge that needs to be added to the project and identify the pilot partners best suited to take up the role in question. The demonstration phase will entail the operation of large-scale interregional pilots based on the four objectives. This implementation in the regions will enable the last phase of commercialisation of new products and services by the private sector

Co-Leading Regions
East Netherlands
Flanders
South-Netherlands
Pilot Contacts
Kathleen D'Hondt

Policy Analyst

Participating Regions
Autonomous Province of Trento / Trentino
East and North Finland
Emilia-Romagna
Piemonte
Slovenia
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Demo Cases

SAPHIRe final conference & Smart Health Pilot event

On the afternoon of the 26 of April, the Smart Health Pilot organised its first physical ple

Progress update from the Smart Health Pilot

RegMed XB to become the fifth demo case of the Smart Health Pilot RegMed XB “Towards industrial-scale organoid-based tissue manufacturing”

Science meets Regions - Launch event

On 3 March took place the launch event of the Vanguard Initiative Innovation Networking Initiative (VI INI) series ov events organised in the framework of the Science meets Regions program

hospital, indoors, medicine
Progress update from the Smart Health Pilot

Second Plenary Smart Health pilot meeting held on 20 October On the 20 of October 2021, the second Plenary Smart Health pilot meeting was organised.

Vanguard Initiative workshop at the European Week of Regions and Cities (EWRC): Connecting Regional Innovation Ecosystems:

The Vanguard Initiative (VI) workshop organised in the framework of the EWRC, provided a valuable opportunity to discuss how European

EWRC - East Netherlands' Workshop: 'Regions shaping Europe’s digital future'

Th!nk East Netherlands is organising the workshop Regions shaping Europe’s digital future as part of the European Week of Regions and Cities 2021 on 12  

SMR East Netherlands

Please find below the documents shared during the event:

Science meets Regions - Launch event presentation

Please find below the presentations shared during the event:

action plan 2021: Smart Health

The Smart Health pilot project has the ambition to transform the connected European value chains on personalised medicine and smart health, by combining

SAPHIRe

The Consortium for Securing the Adoption of Personalised Health in Regions (SAPHIRe), aims to structure the application of personalised health at regional level which will drive the transition towards sustainable healthcare and personalised health. On the website you can find an observatory with regional policies related to personalised health.

Smart Health Kick-off meeting 14 April 2021