GATEKEEPER OPEN CALL

Deadline: Feb 28, 2021  
CALL EXPIRED

1.1 Overview of the Gatekeeper project

Our healthcare systems are detecting conditions and risks when it is too late and once detected, they are not managed properly. The gaps between i) cases diagnosed and cured, ii) diseases and frailty conditions prevented or delayed, is astonishingly high. This means that, as a society, we are currently losing VALUE between what the healthcare system is caring and curing and what the citizens really need.

In this context, innovations could bring support to achieve better diagnosis, treatment and management of citizens across the continuum of care and prevention. However, despite the exponential advances in medical technologies1 developed and tested on an ongoing basis around Europe, a large proportion are not implemented and never reach citizens. Nowadays, the European Commission is working to provide its citizens access to safe and top quality digital services in health and care, and this process has recently been accelerated by the Digital Single Market initiative, the recent Communication on Digital Transformation of Health and Care in the Digital Single Market, which identified as priorities Citizens' secure access to health data, Personalised medicine through shared European data infrastructure, Citizen empowerment with digital tools for user feedback and person-centred care.

In this sense born Gatekeeper, as an European Multi Centric Large-Scale Pilot on Smart Living Environments which the main objective is enabling the creation of a platform that connects healthcare providers, businesses, entrepreneurs, and elderly citizens and the communities they live in, in order to originate an open, trust-based arena for matching ideas, technologies, user needs and processes, aimed at ensuring healthier independent lives for the ageing populations.

The scope of GATEKEEPER is the application of advanced Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to tackle the challenge of improving the quality of life of citizens while demonstrating its significant efficiency gains in health and care delivery across Europe.

The technological platform that will be created in GATEKEEPER for managing all the data and applying digital innovations actions will be crucial. By 2022, GATEKEEPER will be embodied in an open source, European, standard-based, interoperable and secure framework available to all developers, for creating combined digital solutions for personalised early detection and interventions that harness the next generation of healthcare and wellness innovations; cover the whole care continuum for elderly citizens, including primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, chronic diseases and co-morbidities;consu

straightforwardly fit “by design” with European regulations, on data protection, consumer protection and patient protection; are subjected to trustable certification processes; support value generation through the deployment of advanced business models based on the Value Based Health Care (VBHC) paradigm.

1.2 Reference use case

GATEKEEPER will demonstrate its value by scaling up, during a 42-months work plan, towards the deployment of solutions that will involve ca 40.000 elderly citizens, supply and demand side (authorities, institutions, companies, associations, academies) in 8 regional communities, from 7 EU member states.

GATEKEEPER Large Scale Pilots (LSP) will establish and consolidate the different Use Cases through Europe enabling the deployment of digital solutions for early detection and intervention and support the risk stratification models. They ensure that GATEKEEPER users’ and medical requirements for early detection and intervention are correctly deployed in a coordinated way in all pilot sites.

The Use Cases that will be implemented in the different Pilot Sites will cover: Figure 1. Pilot and reference use case mapping

(TRUNCATED)