Our understanding of Innovation Procruement: Healthcare & Innovation Procurement refers to the purchase of cutting-edge products, services, or processes that improve healthcare delivery and outcomes. It aims to accelerate the adoption of innovation in healthcare, reduce time to market for suppliers, and drive better value for patients and providers.
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InnoProc: Innovating the Future of Procurement
It supports:
Faster adoption of promising innovations
Early market engagement for suppliers, startups, and SMEs
More efficient, cost-effective systems
Collaborative innovation between hospitals, industry, and academia
Real-world testing and market access opportunities
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InnoHSupport
InnoHSupport is dedicated to enhancing the ability of healthcare procurers to adopt innovative and sustainable solutions. Through the creation of the Innovation Procurement Agora, the project fosters collaboration between public and private stakeholders, helping them tackle challenges like rising healthcare costs, ageing populations, and environmental sustainability.
PROCURE
Procure’s goal is to make current healthcare procurement practices more resilient and efficient across the European Union, and to ensure that public health and care procurement systems can respond to future emergency crises & pandemics.
Health Innovation Support Services
HIPSS is a hands-on initiative, supported by the EU, with the main goal of developing a cross-border platform that streamlines healthcare innovation procurement by offering comprehensive support services to public procurers, innovators, and stakeholders across Europe.
Public Buyers Community
Big Buyers Working Together is a European Commission initiative that brings together major public buyers across Europe to drive strategic, sustainable, and innovative public procurement. While the initiative spans multiple sectors, it also includes two dedicated Communities of Practice focused on healthcare - one for Healthcare Efficiency and the other for Healthcare Sustainability. These communities enable healthcare buyers to collaborate, share best practices, and engage with the market to improve outcomes while reducing environmental impact and increasing value for money.
Health Innofacilitator
InnoBuyer
InnoBuyer is a coordination and support action, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, with a total budget of 2 million euros. It aims to become a testing ground and benchmark towards the implementation of a demand-driven methodology that brings together Challengers (public and private organisations) and Solvers (notably European Innovation Council-supported SMEs), to jointly co-create innovative solutions, and speed-up the process leading to a concrete innovation procurement.
InnoMatch
InnoMatch aims to help public and private buyers find innovative, tailored solutions by funding pilot testing.
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Innovation procurement is more than a process it's a strategic enabler for modernizing healthcare. When implemented effectively, it empowers organizations to anticipate challenges, deliver high-quality outcomes, and support a vibrant, sustainable innovation ecosystem.
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