The TIQUE Buyers Group of healthcare providers from Spain, Italy and Sweden have identified a common need for the transformation of health and care services for patients with advanced heart failure and co-existing chronic conditions, frail or at risk of becoming frail. They invite potentially interested bidders to participate in the open market consultation of their upcoming pre-commercial procurement that aims to develop and test integrated care approaches to treatment for those patients. The consultation takes place in the form of online meetings between 7 October and 4 November 2021.

A group of healthcare buyers from Sweden, Norway and Spain invites potentially interested bidders to participate in the open market consultation for their upcoming Carematrix pre-commercial procurement. Objective is to trigger testing and development of new solutions to anticipate and address the needs of people suffering from multimorbititiy, by ensuring timely service access, co-managed care journeys and transitions between specialties and sectors. The open market consultation takes place as a combination of an RFI, questionnaire and webinars between November-December 2021.

The new technical specification on a quality label for health and wellness apps has been published by ISO, CEN and IEC. It brings together and builds on guidelines and requirements for apps, by many local and national health organizations around the world to ensure they are safe, reliable and effective.

In 2017-2020, Tech4Care developed and tested a virtual reality (VR) based system for stroke rehabilitation for a pre-commercial procurement led by healthcare organisations in Northern Ireland and Italy. This accelerated the internal R&D activity, boosted the company's growth and sustained the development of further digital health products, now available in the market.

Healthcare buyers from Sweden, Spain, Denmark and Norway are joining forces in the CRANE buyers group to implement together a pre-commercial procurement. Aim is to trigger innovation across Europe to improve the comprehensive treatment of chronic diseases in rural areas. The Horizon 2020 funded CRANE project has just started beginning of June.

The European mHealth Hub has launched an online survey to assess what are the demand-driven services that the Hub could offer to its potential customers. Stakeholders of all types are encouraged to take part in the survey as potential users to help the Hub partners better understand and define the Hub’s future service portfolio. The survey also aims to capture what features of the proposed Hub are most attractive and likely to be most useful to different stakeholder groups, and to discover what in-kind or financial contributions might be acceptable. The survey consists of 13 short questions.

At the virtual High-Level Conference "Digital Health 2020 - EU on the Move", the Commission and Germany's Presidency of the Council of the EU announced their intention to work closely together on a secure and patient-oriented use of health data for Europe, and EU-wide collaboration in this area, through a European Health Data Space for better healthcare, better research and better health policy making.

The EU funding program COSME provides EUR 5 million funding for transnational consortia with minimum 2 public buyers to implement public procurement of innovation solutions (PPI). The call is open to proposals that are interested to deploy innovative solutions for any domain of public sector activity (health, digital, climate, transport, education, energy etc.). The deadline for submission of proposals for the 1st and 2nd stage of the evaluation process is 19/01/2021 and 08/06/2021 respectively.