DigitalHealthEurope will provide comprehensive, centralised support to the digital transformation of health and care (DTHC) priorities of the Digital Single Market. The partners bring a broad range of collective knowledge and expertise, originating from the longstanding leadership and engagement in the whole spectrum of activities, from interoperability and standards to health service innovation and from the technical to the policy level. The project will support large-scale deployment of digital solutions for person-centred integrated care by identifying, analysing, and facilitating the replication of highly impactful best practices, utilising the consortium’s exceptional expertise on knowledge management and impact assessment (EIP on AHA repository of innovative practices, MAFEIP), twinning schemes, and mobilisation of stakeholders. A marketplace will enable organisations to find suitable partnerships. At least 46 twinnings ranging from adaptation of impactful best practices to full adoption will be carried out. A funding advice service and capacity building framework will be provided to further stimulate deployment and scale up. Building on the unique composition of the consortium, the project will establish and manage 3 collaboration platforms to align all efforts of ongoing and future initiatives supporting the 3 DTHC priorities. The partners will utilise their vast network of more than 1,100 members representing national, regional, and EU-wide stakeholders. The collaborative work will lead to common strategic agendas and commitments for action that will boost innovation and progress in the respective topics. A Board of Associated Experts with proven high-level competence on all key fields will support the delivery of an actionable strategic vision and recommendations for EU policy beyond 2020.

xShare envisions everyone sharing their health data in EEHRxF with a click-of-a-button. The xShare button to be featured across health portals and patient apps and allow people to exercise their data portability rights under GDPR. Hence, the European EHRxF will be the driver for research and innovation in EHDS. xShare will establish the European EHRxF Standards and Policy Hub, the “Hub” partnership of six standards developing organizations (CEN/TC251, HL7 Europe, IHE Europe, SNOMED, CDISC, IEEE) market actors (DIGITAL Europe, MedTech-Europe and EUCROF), supported by competence centers, nationals and regional authorities and European SMEs. xShare will develop: 1) Harmonized common specifications, create and maintain xBundles i.e., collection of common data specifications including FHIR implementation guides, tools and data sets, and educational support for key EHRxF health information domains as noted in the EHDS draft regulation Annex 1. 2) A set of common elements across EHRxF health information domains applicable across EHDS-1 (JA-9), public/population health (EHDS-2), and clinical research. 3) Extended harmonized IPS specification to include care plans and making it fit for the purpose of clinical research use cases i.e. clinical trial eligibility, real world data, patient reported outcomes, and returning clinical research data to patients. 4) xShare feature the xShare Button in 8 adoption settings in Hospital network (Italy), National portal (Greece, Ireland, Cyprus), regional network with emphasis in medical tourism and the connection of the public to the private sector (Catalunya and Madeira), entry of digital health applications to the myHealthSpace ecosystem in France. Care plans will be demonstrated in Denmark. xShare investigate the feasibility and value of the EU xShare Industry label as a vehicle towards implementing the draft EHDS regulation. Lastly open calls at the last year of the project aim to onboard with EHRxF almost 100 settings across Europe.

The project aims enhancing cross-sector, international and interdisciplinary collaboration in the area of social robotics technology for care. Are robots ready for society, and is society ready for robots? How can social robots can be included in people’s lives? Robots are increasingly being used in the healthcare sector as a potential solution to the current and future challenges faced by the healthcare sector. Due to the global population ageing, by 2035 the world is projected to lack 12.9 million healthcare professionals (WHO: 2013). Social robots may benefit the quality life and wellbeing of patients, their families and healthcare professionals. Evidence and much of the needed knowledge are still lacking. Strong interdisciplinarity and cross-sectorial research and innovation activity is needed. A knowledge hub for social robotics will be created with a threefold aim: (1) To enhance the competencies of involved staff members, refining and focusing their skills; (2) To build a tri-sectoral network involving academia, industry and users of technology, and (3) to create an enduring network that will outlive the grant funding. The core of the project includes some of the strongest actors in international research, SMEs and user organisations, focusing on three activity lines: technological, sociological, care-and-welfare. To be able to understand the impact of introducing social robots in care, the three areas that will be affected by this technical evolution will be researched: (1) care provided as medical practice; this is the care given to patients in hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centres and other medical facilities. (2) residential care - this area refers to all care institutions accepting patient/clients as residents: elderly homes, nursing homes, special needs schools for children or adults, etc. (3) family care, investigating how social robots can be implemented in the home, and as a part of domestic life.

EQUICARES supports access to innovative and sustainable mental health and care services by people in vulnerable situations through a blend of research, co-creation and policy solutions. The project uses innovative methodologies, such as an advanced application of Levesque framework for evaluation of mental health services; the deployment of Computational Social Sciences to increase access for hard-to-reach populations in vulnerable situations and collect accurate quantitative and qualitative data on inequalities in mental healthcare services; and the combination of complementary cost-analysis techniques. To unlock the design of innovative solutions, the project maps, through digital ethnography, existing innovative solutions, analyses for accessible mental health services and links them with different parts of the mental health system. Such informative insights are visualised and offered to policy makers through a dedicated Atlas. EQUICARES pilots innovative solutions in 8 areas from 7 countries, which represent diverse socioeconomic settings and cover all major categories of vulnerable groups, while informing various strategic frameworks of EU. Through “Smart Health Labs”, the project engages vulnerable groups at the community level to co-design, implement and assess innovative solutions based on the principles of social economy and user innovation. At the individual level, the project provides awareness raising and capacity-building and pilots a novel AI-based Assistant, making advancements in the landscape of AI-generated mental health ecosystem, and fostering mental health and digital literacy of users. EQUICARES tests the value of its innovative solutions and applies novel cost analysis techniques to provide solid evidence on the negative impact on not taking measures. Finally,the project replicates its outcomes in 4 additional cases and develops the Inclusive Mental Health and Care Policy Dashboard towards the sustainability and policy uptake of its results.