Key success factors of an ECHAlliance Ecosystem

1. Set-up infrastructure and processes to support data sharing between professionals and citizens, interoperability and data analytics capacities;

2. Design and implement innovative solutions for key challenges such as chronic diseases management, remote monitoring, frailty, falls prevention, medicine adherence/optimisation, coordination of care, nutrition, age-friendly environments, dementia, mental health…;

3. Create an enabling environment able to:

• Enhance open innovation between stakeholders;
• Coordinate public policy and private sector;
• Manage change through training & educational programmes and communication plans;
• Support entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs with business services;
• Support the fundraising process with public grants and private investors;
• Develop evaluation capacities to test and assess the models and solutions;
• Create innovative business models and contracts.

What an Ecosystem does

• Regular multi-stakeholders meetings every 3 months (4 per year);
• Presentation of the news and current projects in the ecosystem;
• Keynote of Digital health trends and innovation;
• Challenges-driven sessions: identification of unmet needs and existing issues and presentation by health/social care professionals, policy-makers or insurances/funders (public & private);
• Innovation showcasing sessions: companies, entrepreneurs and researchers present their solutions and technologies
• Project incubation: enhance the implementation capacities thanks to a comprehensive approach with experts (clinical teams, legal advisors, business modelling, innovative deals & contracts, communication, change management).
• Project funding: identification of investment and funding sources such as tenders, calls of projects from public and private entities (Europe, Governments, foundations...) and investors