We address Europe’s health challenges with collaboration and digital enhancement
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Regional Challenges And
Opportunities
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Equity and access
Improved digital and health literacy, along with creative public-private partnerships, could help close the gaps in healthcare access across Europe.
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Disease prevention
Europe could save lives and reduce costs, by prioritizing personalized care and disease prevention.
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Data and digital infrastructures
Expanding Europe’s digital infrastructure and cross-border data networks could lead to new solutions and dramatically improve healthcare.
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Collaboration
Greater collaboration between health stakeholders could help governments better implement the health innovation strategies needed to enhance patient care.
Our Story
Recent advances in healthcare have improved life expectancy and quality for most Europeans in recent decades, but healthcare is still out of reach for many. Aging populations are also bringing with them increased healthcare needs and spending.
To overcome these challenges, Europe must change how healthcare is organized, practiced and accessed, to ensure we deliver better health outcomes for everyone. Achieving equal access to quality healthcare must be made a priority.
Algeria
In Algeria, the expert panel has prioritized three areas of focus: digitisation, care provision and financing. In 2023, an innovation challenge was held to look for tested, scalable solutions in these areas. This led to Movement Health Partnering with Roche Algeria to Modernize Healthcare in this region.
Ghana
In Ghana, as a first step, the local expert panel is coming together to identify and prioritize the country’s greatest health system challenges. Movement Health is then collaborating with pharmacy regulators to solve the identified problems and challenges using the National e-Pharmacy Platform (NEPP).
South-Africa
In South Africa, the expert panel has decided to focus on women-centered care to reduce gender inequalities and improve health and well-being for women. The experts are placing a particular focus on cervical and breast cancer care. The solution comprises two main parts, which are: screening and awareness-raising, along with a mobile-friendly Progressive Web App.
Bulgaria
Bulgaria faces issues posed by outmoded norms, which persist despite efforts for digitization. Movement Health and Digital Health Village (DHV) have partnered in Bulgaria to introduce DHV’s “My Path” module, which provides patients with accurate treatment information. Long-term care and the screening and prevention of non-communicable diseases are the main topics of this module.
Chile
Waiting times in Chile increased by an astounding 365% during the COVID-19 pandemic, placing tremendous strain on the healthcare system and lowering the standard of patient care. Third-level care occupancy was made worse by fragmented decision-making across levels and the lack of consistent and standardized prioritization criteria. Waiting times were made even longer and care effectiveness was hampered by institutional absenteeism and operational inefficiency. With 3,969 new cases of lung cancer reported in 2020 alone, patients with this disease notably suffered the most from these lengthy waiting lists. Sensing the urgency, Movimiento Salud stressed that in order to improve the treatment decision-making processes, patient journeys must be accelerated, patient-hospital interfaces must be streamlined, and interactions between hospitals and healthcare providers must be optimized.
Colombia
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in Colombia. Three out of every 10 citizens also suffer from diabetes, while 1.6% of the population has been diagnosed with epilepsy. The challenge is to improve access to services, continuity of care, interconnection between healthcare providers and the collection of patient data, enabling the use of digital technologies and interoperability to increase citizen empowerment over its own health management. In 2021, Movement Health responded by launching a nationwide open innovation challenge that drew 47 digital health businesses. “Salud 360,” a digital solution designed to enhance prompt access to healthcare, was created by four carefully chosen collaborators and effectively deployed at Hospital de Baranoa, Atlantico, from July to November 2022.
Mexico
According to the 2020 census, 70.9% of Mexicans are covered by public healthcare, with 2.3% of the population insured through the private sector. This leaves 32 million Mexicans (26.5%) with no access to any form of healthcare, a situation exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. There is also a shortage of medical professionals, with just 1.95 doctors per 100,000 people. Infant mortality is the highest in the OECD, and the country also struggles with high rates of obesity (32.4%) and diabetes (15.9%). The solution came in the form of a Dynamic Digital Dashboard for Data Visualization to improve decision-making for preventive healthcare in Mexico.
Peru
In Peru there were over 4,000 new cervical cancer cases in 2023, ranking as the second most frequent cancer among women aged 15 to 44, with mortality exceeding 2,000 cases annually (ICO/IARC, 2023). The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted surveillance efforts, resulting in a decrease of up to 76% of cervical cancer screening tests. This project aims to increase early diagnosis, improve wait times and the user experience to reduce preventable morbidity and mortality among female cancer patients. https://movement-health.org/region-explore/latin-america/
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Tõnu Esko
Vice Director of Development and head of Estonian Biobank Innovation Center at Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu
