Deadline: 15-Mar-23
The European Commission (EC) has launched the proposals for Combining hospital interventional approaches to improve patient outcomes and increase hospital efficiency.
Scope
- Patients admitted to hospital to undergo elective or non-elective procedures typically require recovery and rehabilitation to get back to normal life. New treatment approaches such as minimally invasive surgical approaches, locoregional interventions, novel imaging and diagnostic techniques, clinical decision support systems, and robotics have the potential to reduce complications, facilitate faster recovery, and help increase hospital efficiencies. However, due to limitations in interoperability, reliable evidence and suitable guidelines, these innovative approaches, treatment options and clinical decision support systems are not being optimally combined to provide the best patient care.
- Projects funded under this topic should address this challenge by showcasing how existing hospital interventions, treatment approaches and technologies can be optimally combined to improve patient outcomes, enhance patient pathways, generate efficiency gains, reduce hospital staffing challenges, help to lower costs, and decrease societal burden.
Funding Information
The check will normally be done for the coordinator if the requested grant amount is equal to or greater than EUR 500 000, except for:
- public bodies (entities established as a public body under national law, including local, regional or national authorities) or international organisations; and
- cases where the individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000 (lowvalue grant).
Expected Outcomes
Research and innovation (R&I) actions (projects) to be supported under this topic should aim to deliver results that contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Patients will be offered improved, evidence-based, innovative hospital treatment combinations that lead to better outcomes.
- Healthcare professionals will have access to improved clinical decision support systems that will recommend personalised treatments using patient-specific datasets collected in the hospital setting.
- Healthcare systems will have better evidence on cost-effective combinations of interventions and how these combinations can increase hospital efficiency.
- Researchers will have improved information on treatment combinations to facilitate the development of improved interventions.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions;
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States;
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eligible non-EU countries:
- countries associated to Horizon Europe;
- low- and middle-income countries.
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