Innovation procurement as a vehicle to address healthcare challenge

The sixth and final webinar of our procurement series for health managers was dedicated to the role of public procurement of innovation in addressing current health challenges, such as the treatment of patients using or in need of an implantable pacemaker, and effective infection control systems for antimicrobial resistance. This webinar featured Sofía Moreno Pérez, Procurement Coordinator for the RITMOCORE project, and Olman Elizondo, Health Innovation Project Manager at AQuAS (Agency of Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia) and member of the RaDAR Coordination team.

The speakers introduced their respective projects, RITMOCORE and RaDAR, and talked about how innovations procured by healthcare providers can help address existing healthcare challenges and discussed the role of co-creation in public procurement of innovation, stakeholder involvement, outcome-based procedures, impact evaluation, and challenges. Lastly, they explained the differences between joint procurement and collaborative procurement.