eHealth procurement is also an important topic to bear in mind when talking about eHealth development and implementation. This week, the different speakers have been talking about the importance of interoperability with the different European countries, and they all agree that to make it possible a common healthcare model of action, including eHealth procurement, has to be developed.
Different projects around Europe have been exposed to show how they are using technologies and incorporating them in the workplace. Nowadays, these projects are local, but they all aim at making a global project to improve the systems, get better quality and try to decrease costs.
The following real cases of best practices can be taken as methodological references in the procurement of innovative eHealth solutions. Visit these sites to get more information:
Andalusia: http://bit.ly/a2w1Rt
Veneto: http://bit.ly/ctYipU
Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona: http://bit.ly/bolae2
If the institutions normalize and rationalize their purchases, in the short run patients will be benefited through a more agile administration of waiting lists and surgery schedulings.
The fact that public institutions are the slowest actors in innovation procurement, surely due to bureaucracy, should estimulate providers to focus mostly on small and midsize private health organizations.
