Deadline: 30-Jun-23
Leading healthcare company MSD, with the support of Digital Health Academy, announces the third fully European edition of the Patient Digital Health Awards (PDHA), an international strategic initiative that is designed to recognize the development and implementation of digital health solutions that improve care and quality of life for patients and their caregivers.
European PDHA 2023 intends to directly involve patients and patient advocacy associations in an auditing process that highlights their needs and capitalizes on their experiences as drivers of digital health thinking. As such, it integrates patient insights and gathers diverse experiences that trigger innovation; interact with patient advocacy organizations; create a positive synergy with the community; inspire policymakers by providing data and measurable insights that promote conversations about digital health needs, perspectives, and gaps, with the goal of connecting patients and innovators.
Award Categories
- With this in mind, they have created three main award categories, which are as follows:
- Digital Prevention and Diagnostics
- includes digital solutions that are focused on disease prevention, remote diagnostics tools, and the generation of patient data that can be used for early identification of disease risk and earlier diagnosis of existing conditions.
- New Ways of Interacting with Healthcare Teams and Providers, Mental Health and Social Support
- encompasses new interaction models, knowledge sharing, event management, learning, and doctor-patient communication. Also aims at digital tools for improving patients’ mental health, social support and solutions for developing healthier habits to improve clinical outcomes and quality of care and life.
- Disease Monitoring and Therapeutics
- focuses on innovative solutions for monitoring patients and tracking disease progression and treatment effectiveness (short- mid-, and long-term), and new algorithms that could predict the onset of acute events in chronic diseases. Such solutions include devices and innovative engineering, as well as systems that ensure safety and quality of care for both patients and healthcare professionals.
- Digital Prevention and Diagnostics
Award Details
- Winners will be awarded according to the category as follows:
- Digital Prevention and Diagnostics
- € 2.000
- New Ways of Interacting with Healthcare Teams and Providers, Mental Health and Social Support
- € 2.000
- Disease Monitoring and Therapeutics
- € 2.000
- Digital Prevention and Diagnostics
Digital Health Tools
- Digital health tools include, but are not limited to:
- Apps and telemedicine platforms
- Digital therapeutics projects or products
- Artificial Intelligence and IoT products
- Wearable technologies and sensors
- Virtual and Augmented Reality tools
- Big Data/blockchain-based solutions
- Social media solutions
- Instant messaging systems or platforms
- Digital health and narrative medicine projects
Eligibility Criteria
- European PDHA’s Call for Applications is open to individuals, patient associations, healthcare providers, scientific foundations, public or private universities and educational institutions, services companies, IT companies, and startups that are located within any of the following countries:
- All European Union Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
- All EFTA Members: Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, Switzerland
- The Balkans: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia
- The United Kingdom.
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