The Innovation Procurement Policies and the Development of e‑health in the EU Member States: What Can Be Learnt?

Marcin Kautsch; Mateusz Lichoń; Natalia Matuszak

doi:10.18778/0208-6018.337.14

Authors

Marcin Kautsch Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Public Health
Mateusz Lichoń Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Sociology
Natalia Matuszak Independent researcher

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/0208-6018.337.14

Keywords:

e‑health, public procurement, innovation, European Union

Abstract

The article presents findings of research on e‑health development in four European Union (EU) Member States in the context of public procurement of innovation (PPI). EU policies attempt to make public procurement leverage for innovation by introducing a number of new tender procedures. Policies and practices in PPI, including e‑health, were investigated for Denmark, Great Britain, Spain and Poland. For various reasons, all four countries struggle with the introduction of the European PPI procedures, and with making a transition to outcome‑based tenders. Though they all introduced policies implementing these procedures, Denmark and Great Britain seem to have achieved better results, having well‑established public‑private collaboration. This correlates with a more efficient adoption of e‑health solutions in those countries. With some minor successes, Spain, and particularly Poland, display attachment to traditional procedures despite changes in the public procurement regulations.

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Author Biography

Marcin Kautsch, Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Public Health

Marcin Kautsch M.Sc. Ph.D., a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University Medical College (IPH JU MC). He is also the president of the Transition Countries Network affiliated at EHMA (European Health Management Association) and the EHMA Board Member. He represents Poland in two COST actions “European Network for the Joint Evaluation of Connected Health Technology” and “European Network for cost containment and improved quality of health care”. He also is also an evaluator at the European Commission of the proposals submitted in the Horizon 2020 programme. In the past Marcin Kautsch participated as a lecturer, a project author and a project leader in many training, research and consultancy programmes including, among others: the Harvard & Jagiellonian Consortium for Health, the “LEPHIE: Leaders for European Public Health project”, led by the Maastricht University, the Leonardo da Vinci DELTAH Project (Developing European Leadership Through Action-learning in Healthcare). He was the project coordinator (Poland) of the projects co-funded by European Commission in the area of innovation and energy efficiency. He has extensive research experience and also worked as a consultant and a facilitator for a number of health care units and local authorities in the field of public health and health care management.

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