Establishing the value and business model for sustainable eHealth services in Europe
VALUeHEALTH will demonstrate how interoperability of health information can consistently create, deliver, and capture value for all stakeholders, in order to justify sustainable investments in scaling up interoperability across Europe.
This project is being undertaken in the context of many years of activity in standardisation, many hundreds of millions of Euros invested in national eHealth programs, which have not yet delivered enough benefit to have become sustainable, and have to some extent called into question whether historic promises have been too bold. The second important context is substantial investment in Europe through the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) in establishing a pan-European digital services infrastructure covering multiple public sectors. This investment provides a unique opportunity and momentum to define and deliver a more strategically sound, value driven, business plan to realize sustainable eHealth interoperability. The CEF will offer a time window of European funding in generic services, and for some specialised eHealth specific services, that eHealth can take advantage of. CEF (public) funding is not a long-term solution, but an important enabler. The permanent solution is to construct a value chain that maintains a perpetual cycle of investments in interoperability, that become embedded within the larger ecosystem of the health care delivery and health ICT sectors, and indeed bring sufficient benefit to enhance those sectors. VALUeHEALTH will demonstrate how this critical value chain can be constructed and optimised by developing an evidence-based business plan for sustainable pan-European services.
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