Horizon Europe (2021 - 2027)

Expanding the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format to Improve Interoperability Within the European Health Data Space

Last update: Jan 17, 2024 Last update: 17 Jan, 2024

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Location:EU 27EU 27
Contracting Authority Type:Development Institution
Status:Awarded
Budget:EUR 8,000,000
Award ceiling:EUR 5,000,000
Award floor:EUR 3,000,000
Sector:Health, Information & Communication Technology
Languages:English
Eligible applicants:Unrestricted / Unspecified
Eligible nationalities:Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, A ... See moreAfghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dem. Rep. Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Commonwealth of, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini (Swaziland), Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Polynesia, French Southern Territory, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine / West Bank & Gaza, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Date posted:08 Dec, 2022

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Call Update 

Aug 9, 2023 4:10:42 PM

Call HORIZON-HLTH-2023-IND-06

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 17

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 1

Number of above-threshold proposals: 8

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 50,650,760.


 

Apr 13, 2023 6:45:07 PM

Call HORIZON-HLTH-2023-IND-06 closed on 13 April 2023. 17 proposals were submitted. The breakdown per topic is:

HORIZON-HLTH-2023-IND-06-02: 3 proposals

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated on Friday 04 August 2023 at the earliest.


Update: 12 January 2023

The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-HLTH-2023-IND-06-02(HORIZON-RIA)


Expanding the European Electronic Health Record exchange Format to improve interoperability within the European Health Data Space

TOPIC ID: HORIZON-HLTH-2023-IND-06-02

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: A competitive health-related industry (Single stage - 2023) (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-IND-06)
Type of action: HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Type of MGA: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned opening date: 12 January 2023
Deadline date: 13 April 2023 17:00:00 Brussels time

Topic description
 
ExpectedOutcome:

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to one or several expected impacts of destination 6 “Maintaining an innovative, sustainable and globally competitive health industry”. More specifically, this topic aims at supporting activities that are contributing to the following impact area: “High quality digital services for all.” To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed, tailored towards and contributing to all of the following expected outcomes, and provide appropriate qualitative and quantitative indicators to measure their progress and specific impact:

  • European Health Record (EHR) stakeholders (e.g. developers, suppliers, integrators, and operators) have at their disposal and use fit-for-purpose standards, guidelines, and toolsets for prioritised health information domains to address interoperability of EHRs in line with the principles set in the EEHRxF Recommendation[1], contributing also to security and privacy.
  • Stakeholders have at their disposal better quality and better integrated health datasets within the European Health Data Space,[2] to foster innovations in the health sector and leverage the potential of new analytics solutions such as AI and big data, get new insights and detect trends from aggregated data, including for cross-border health threats.
  • Citizens are provided with an expanded access to their health data, also across borders, and innovative digital services for high-quality health and care across the EU.
Scope:

EHR interoperability has yet to become a reality in a number of use cases and health information domains. It is a complex, multi-dimensional challenge. EHRs across the Member States are diverse; so are languages, cultures, and practices in the health sector. Different technical specifications, technologies and clinical terminologies are used, involving a range of stakeholders, within and across care settings.

Proposals should address all of the following:

  • Research, develop and validate harmonised interoperability formats for sharing data in specific priority health information domains that should be selected with reference to the EU policies and priorities. The output formats should enable EHR interoperability across the Member States and address cross-border health data exchange by design and in line with the principles set in the EEHRxF Recommendation.
  • Leverage and scale up the potential of EHR through enhanced interoperability to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of patient care, enforce patients' right to data portability, enhance care coordination, guide crisis planning, reduce medical errors, and lower costs. For example, based on the lessons learnt from COVID-19, enable incorporating EHR data into the early stages of clinical crisis planning and leveraging it to identify potential cross-border health threats based on analysis of patients’ data trends.
  • Address semantic interoperability for prioritised information domains so that the transmitted health record contains standardised coded data.
  • Maximise synergies with relevant initiatives, activities and programmes, building upon previous and linking to on-going actions[3].
  • Closely coordinate and collaborate with various stakeholders, from patients and healthcare professionals to EHR providers, healthcare industry (including SMEs), policymakers and legislators to progress towards a more comprehensive EHR interoperability.

Applicants envisaging to include clinical studies should provide details of their clinical studies in the dedicated annex using the template provided in the submission system. See definition of clinical studies in the introduction to this work programme part.

[1] Commission Recommendation on a European Electronic Health Record exchange Format (EEHRxF) (C(219)800)

[2]https://ec.europa.eu/health/ehealth-digital-health-and-care/european-health-data-space_en

[3]Such as “Support for European eHealth Interoperability roadmap for deployment” 

https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/sc1-hcc-07-2020;

“Prototyping a European interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) exchange” 

https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/sc1-dth-08-2018;

“Setting up a European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EEHRxF) Ecosystem” 

https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-hlth-2022-ind-13-05

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