Health eProcurement:Cross-border eCollaboration

in the eRegion

ICT, economical, and organitational issues for e-health integration in the enlarged Europe

University of Trieste & University of Primorska Spring School in Koper, May 22 & 23, 2014

Jože GričarProfessor Emeritus of the University of Maribor

Gricar@FOV.Uni-Mb.si Program Coordinator

http://eLivingLab.org/CrossBordereRegion/InterMunicipality

eRegion

In the eRegion business & government

organizations, as well as individuals,

extensively use eTechnologies

in order to support their work

eRegion - various perspectives

From a small business perspective, eRegion is an area

of about 100 kilometers around the company’s location.

From a large company’s perspective, eRegion is an area

of some 200-500 kilometers around the company’s location.

From the Knowledge Village perspective, eRegion is the area

of about 5 hours air-flight to/from Dubai, Arab Emirates.

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EU Strategy for the Danube Regionhttp://Danube-Region.eu

Priorities of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region

http://Danube-Region.eu/pages/priorities

The Danube Region

TheBaltic

Region

Slovenia’s competitive advantage:Location Location Location

Inter-Municipality Initiative in Slovenia: Cross-border eCollaboration in the Danube eRegion

http://elivinglab.org/CrossBordereRegion/InterMunicipality%20./#Participants(as per May 2014)

• Town Municipalities • Neighboring Municipalities • Tourist Organizations • Regional Chambers of Commerce & Craft and Small Business• Development Centres • Companies• Health Institutions• Prehospital Emergency Medical Services • Insurance• Organizers of Major International Events • IT Providers • Supporters – National Administrations• National Assembly Deputies• Organizations of Slovenes Abroad • National Self-governing Communities • Diplomats • Institutes• Universities

Objectives of eSolutions and eServices for a Cross-border eCollaboration

• Innovativeness• User-centricity• Open innovation• Simplicity• Low-cost accessibility• Web sites connectivity• Multi lingual eSolutions & eServices• Openness to the organizations in Slovenia and other

countries• eServices engagement (cloud computing)• Prototyping - Experimenting in the Living Lab Environment

A missing link in innovation

Innovation “no man’s

land”

Research push Market pull

Phase 1 Solution proposal

Phase 2 Prototype

Phase 3 Pre-commercial product/service

Phase 4 Commercial

product/service

Phase 0 Research

Presented by Veli-Pekka Niitamo, NOKIA & ENoLL, Bled eConference June 5, 2007

Prototype

A prototype is

an early sample or model

built to test a concept or process

or to act as a thing to be replicated

or learned from.Wikipedia

A prototype is a basis for a development

of a pilot.

Prototype Types

• Technology prototype – a new operational eSolution or eService.

• Organizational prototype – a new operational eSolution or eService in an organizational setting, or an already proven eSolution or eService in a new organizational setting.

A basis of a prototype development

is a problem

for which the stakeholders

have interest in solving it.

Open Innovation Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and

should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology.

The boundaries between a firm and its environment have become more permeable; innovations can easily transfer inward and outward.

The central idea behind open innovation is that in a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or license processes or inventions (i.e. patents) from other companies.

Wikipedia

Living Lab

A Living Lab is an environment in which researchers, developers and users

cooperate with the common objective of delivering a tested product, solution or

service respecting the users’ requirements in a shortest time possible.

The environment may be

a city, a region within a country, an industry, a supply chain or a whole country.

eHealth Prototype ProposalsItaly-Slovenia Cross-border eCollaboration Workshop, April 17, 2013

http://elivinglab.org/CrossBordereRegion/InterMunicipality/Prototypes_17.%20April%202013.htm

Regional Cross-Border Exchange of eInvoices in Healthcare

Dr. Christian Kittl, Managing Director, Evolaris next level GmbH & Mobile Living Lab, Austria

e-collaboration against rheumatic diseases 

Mag. Katja Oven, Project Manager, Geodetic Institute of Slovenia

A system of geospatial health indicators for health care managementDr. Dalibor Radovan, Manager of Development sector, Geodetic Institute of Slovenia

Real time insight into free healthcare capacity of cross-border hospitals in a case of epidemic disease outbreak or a major disaster

Mag. Egon Milanič, Project Manager, Ineor Ltd., Ljubljana, Slovenia

Cross Border EHR (Electronic Health Record)

Alberto Steindler, CEO, Insiel Mercato SpA, Trieste, Italy

Telerehabilitation using multimedia educational contents 

Dr. Drago Rudel, Director, MKS Electronic Systems Ltd., Ljubljana, Slovenia

Management of drug related problems

Jani Recer, Assistant Director for Informatics, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia

eHealth Prototype Proposals Cont.Italy-Slovenia Cross-border eCollaboration Workshop, April 17, 2013

http://elivinglab.org/CrossBordereRegion/InterMunicipality/Prototypes_17.%20April%202013.htm

Multitouch open source radiological station  A DICOM archive (PACS, Picture Archiving & Communication in Medicine) for anotomopathology images

Andrea Poli, CEO, O3 Enterprise, Trieste, Italy

Cross-border e-Discharge Letter  Cross-border ePrescription  

Dr. Brane Leskošek, Assistant Professor, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Information system for expert help with the research proposals involving live organisms 

Dr. Jure Dimec, Assistant Professor, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Regional arthroplasty register

Dr. Ingrid Milošev, Director assistant for scientific research and educational area, Valdoltra Orthopaedic Hospital  & Head of the Department of Physical and Organic Chemistry, Institute "Jozef Stefan" Ljubljana, Slovenia 

 

eHealth Prototype Proposals Cont.3rd Danube eRegion Conference – DeRC 2013:

Cross-border eSolutions & eServices Prototypes Developmenthttp://elivinglab.org/CrossBordereRegion/DeRC2013/Prototypes.htm

Real time insight into healthcare capacity key resources

Egon Milanič, Project Director, Ineor d.o.o., Slovenia

Up-to-date ICT supported holistic assessment of initial and program-based progress tracking of health readiness

Alenka Ribič, Project Office Manager, RC-IKTS Savinja Žalec, Slovenia

TeleMed System: Better quality of Life at lower cost

Graziano de’ Petris, Head & Research Unit in Telemedicine, University Hospital Trieste, Italy 

 Drug Event Reporting with Mobile Information Solutions – DERMIS

Dr. Christian Kittl, Managing Director, evolaris next level, Graz, Austria & Mobile Living Lab 

Regional arthroplasty register

Ingrid Milošev, Assistant Director, Valdoltra Orthopedic Hospital, Slovenia 

Innovation take-up in Europe is too slow

It is important to note that Europe is traditionally stronger in research output and weaker in innovation take-up (i.e., adoption). To improve adoption rates, the new EU Horizon 2O2O programme stresses a more holistic perspective for Research, Development, and Innovation (RD&I) and this is another step in the right direction. This programme should

encourage more Europeans to take measured risks and reap the benefits of new higher-expectation businesses.

Curley & Salmelin (2013) Open Innovation 2.0: A New Paradigm

Related Conferences in the Danube Region

Danube Region Business Forum 2013:

ICT – New Developments in Information and Communication Technology

Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, Vienna, November 14 & 15 http://b2match.eu/danuberegionbusinessforum2013

4th Danube eRegion Conference – DeRC 2014: Cross-border eSolutions & eServices Prototypes Development

Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, Ljubljana, September 22-23, 2014,

http://eLivingLab.org/CrossBordereRegion/DeRC2014

The Ambassadors of Austria, Hungary, Serbia and Slovakia Sharing Interest in a Cross-border eCollaboration

in the Danube eRegion3rd Danube eRegion Conference – DeRC 2013, September 23

http://elivinglab.org/CrossBordereRegion/DeRC2013/DeRC2013%20Ambassadors%20Panel.pdf

• The EU Strategy for the Danube Region (http://Danube-Region.eu) has opened many interesting opportunities for the intensified cooperation of the countries in the region.

• The e-government development has provided a solid basis for numerous services to the administration and to the citizens.

• Awareness creation and preconditions provision of eCollaboration by building bridges between academia and the government are needed for in-time EU project proposals submission.

• The municipalities have major interest in a cross-border collaboration, for example in the areas of tourism and culture.

The Ambassadors of Austria, Hungary, Serbia and Slovakia Sharing Interest in a Cross-border eCollaboration

in the Danube eRegion3rd Danube eRegion Conference – DeRC 2013, September 23

cont.

• The eGovernment efforts have to re-focus from being administration oriented to being population oriented (user-demand driven systems).

• Regions development (B2B, G2C, G2G) has to be accelerated.

• The digital divide, although still noticeable, is not an obstacle.

• There are too many protocols not “talking” to each other (single-window approach needed).

• Numerous websites accessible are in national language only (various language requirements have to be accommodated based on a common basis in English).

Refences

OECD Council Recommendation on Principles for Internet Policy Making (2011). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 13 December 2011, pp 10,

http://www.oecd.org/sti/ieconomy/49258588.pdf

Curley, Martin & Salmelin, Bror (2013): Open Innovation 2.0: A New Paradigm. OISPG – Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group, pp 12, http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/open-innovation-20-%E2%80%93-new-paradigm-and-foundation-sustainable-europe

Digital Economy, Innovation and Services. Conclusions. European Council. Brussels, October 25, 2013,

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/ec/139197.pdf

Opportunities in Open Innovation Experience Sharing in the eRegions

• Which components, solutions, or operations successful in one eRegion could be copied, which could be followed, and which are not applicable at all in another eRegion?

• Can some guidelines for successful copying be defined and generalized for better understanding of the potential of the open innovation as a concept and as a practice in an eRegion?

• How relevant are the outstanding business, government, and academic leaders to the eRegions awareness creation, policy making, or solutions implementation?

Invitationto a Cross-border

eCollaboration• eMunicipalities without borders

eCollaboration• Inter-eRegions eCollaboration• eMobility• eBusiness for SMEs • Cross-border supply chains• eInvoicing & eProcurement• eHealth & eInclusion• eTourism & eHeritage• eParticipation & eDemocracy• eResponse in Disaster • eGeografic Applications• eCrime