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project info
Start date: 1 May 2018
End date: 31 October 2021
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 1 360 246,46 €
EU contribution: 673 200,75 € (50%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2020
Managing authority: Tillväxtverket
European Commission Topic

E-health innovation

For 4 years, the SICAHT project has been conducted in Blekinge to stimulate growth and employment in the field of e-health. The business has built on a need-driven innovation methodology. The project has succeeded with the project goal; to implement 25 innovation processes, where companies have invested resources in starting development work in a new product or service aimed at the field of e-health. Experience from the project shows that the exchange of these efforts would have been even higher if innovation in both the private and public sector had been better and thus created a higher value in each individual process. The reason for a new project is that more small and medium-sized companies in the region will have the opportunity to participate in value-creating innovation processes with publicly funded e-health activities, based on these experiences. By developing expertise in both private and public health and care activities in the area of innovation and innovation procurement, the project provides opportunities for pilots in the field according to a structured process from need to implementation of finished results. This provides the opportunity for the regional business sector to achieve the assignments in the public sector and an increased growth potential. In parallel with the pilots, the guidance initiated in SICAHT is being developed into a digital tool, which will be able to be offered both private and public actors as a support in innovation and collaboration processes. At the end of the project, the region has developed its innovation capacity in the field of e-health through enhanced collaboration and increased competence in the area.

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