Innovation in European healthcare – what can Sweden learn? - LIF

The public renewal fund is meant to support Innovative
solutions in regard to the new Hospitals
• The 100 million DKK public renewal fund
has been established in connection to
innovative healthcare solutions on the new
super hospitals.
• “The Hospital Partnership” administers the
100 million DKK fund.
• The fund is meant to support the Public-
Private cooperation and innovation
projects. The partnership can choose to
support innovation projects where private
enterprises in cooperation with the
hospitals and other relevant partners, can
develop commercial concepts or
prototypes, which has relevance for the
new Super Hospitals.
• The criteria for granting the funds, has to
live up to criteria such as growth,
employment, effect on welfare, news
value, user driven innovation and
commercial affiliation.
The fund is supporting projects, dealing with concrete
evolving problems on the hospitals. During the last
couple of years, there has been a dramatic increase in
intestinal bacteria obtained by inpatients. Further the
council for better hygiene; estimate that bad hygiene
causes 3000 deaths each year, some of these on
Danish hospitals. The fund is therefore especially
encouraging innovative solutions, targeting this
problem.
The public renewal fund has initiated an initiative
regarding innovative public procurement where
hospitals can get support for the use of “functional
tender” (funktionsudbud) in the demand process of new
innovative solutions. Instead of setting demands for the
activities leading to the delivery of services,
Funktionsudbud put demands to the function of the
delivered good or service.
An analysis carried out by the tender-council shows,
that Funktionsudbud can contribute in fostering
innovation and enhancing the quality and flexibility in
the solutions of public tender.
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