The NRH – one of 12 European partners in ROSIA Project – latest news

More than 40 companies express interest in participating in the design of a telerehabilitation system for remote areas in Europe

Project ROSIA’s procurement will be channelled through a Pre-Commercial Instrument (PCP) and will invest € 9 million

ROSIA will enable, from 12 July to 3 September, an online tool to help organisations find potential partnerships in meeting the tender

Zaragoza, 7 July, 2021.- A total of 42 companies have expressed interest in participating in the design of the telerehabilitation services Europe wants to set up for remote or sparsely populated areas; organisations involved in patient care platforms, tele-rehabilitation services, virtual reality, sensors and monitoring software, have presented their solutions at some of the four information events that ROSIA has organised during the month of June.

These organisations have been the first to showcase their solutions for a system that is expected to revolutionise healthcare in areas where low population density and the advanced age of residents mean it is very difficult to offer a face-to-face rehabilitation services.

ROSIA’s informative events are a preparatory step for the tender it will be launching spring 2022, co-funded by the European Commission’s H2020 programme, and where € 3.9 million will be invested. The events have been useful in identifying the technologies that are being developed in the market, and have allowed their promoters to form alliances that will help them meet the requirements of next year’s tender.

ROSIA is working on tools to help the various interested organisations design their proposals. To this end, the preliminary market consultation will be launched 12 July, and from then until 3 September, interested organisations will be able to access information on the requirements of the tender as well as an online tool that helps in the search for potential partners.  All of this information and more will be available on ROSIA’s website: https://rosia-pcp.eu/

The aim is to involve organisations developing applications and devices that can become part of ROSIA’s catalogue of telerehabilitation services, as well as organisations that provide open platforms to enable the connection of these applications. ROSIA is also interested in projects specialising in the management of socio-community services related to telerehabilitation or that have experience in monitoring and motivating patients.

 ABOUT ROSIA

Three public procurers form ROSIA’s buyers’ group: Servicio Aragonés de Salud (Spain), National Rehabilitation Hospital (Ireland) and the Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (Portugal). They plan to acquire, through a Public Procurement of Innovation instrument (PPI), the design of the future’s tele-rehabilitation services for remote areas.

The project focuses on the development of an intelligent platform for tele-rehabilitation services designed for patients in remote areas. Applications and devices from ROSIA’s Catalogue will be connected to this platform, allowing community supported and supervised self-care services to be integrated into patients’ care plans. ROSIA’s value-based model of integrated care can also open the door to rethinking new business models and incentives for providers, improve equity in access to rehabilitation resources and contribute to improving the sustainability of these services.

ROSIA is a project funded by the European research and development programme Horizon2020 under GA 101017606.

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Supported by the Hospital Board and Executive Committee, NRH colleagues will deliver project benefits for patients across Ireland; engaging with staff from the Brain Injury and Spinal Cord System of Care Programmes and driving innovation across four areas:

• • • Integrated model of care to provide care continuity for patients
    • High-tech tele-rehabilitation devices and services
    • Improved patient experience
    • Sustainable business modelling

As part of ROSIA’s ‘Open Tender’ process contracts will be awarded to industry partners to advance a comprehensive, integrated solution(s) for European care providers; identifying innovative technologies validated in real life and patient engagement exercises.

As one of three procurers¹, the NRH will take a leading role in programme delivery of a remote rehabilitation model and ROSIA’s innovation ecosystem development through a stakeholders and user analysis framework. Care provision will focus on seven pathologies – chronic spinal cord injury, acquired brain injury, pneumology, arthroplasty, cardio-vascular disease, hip fracture and COVID-19.

[1] ROSIA’s additional procurers include: Aragón – Spain, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra – Portugal

Promoting the ROSIA programme delivery, engagement by the NRH will:

• • • advance patient-led engagements and co-design, with care providers and industry partners, the development of tele-rehabilitation and disruptive technologies solutions to patients
    • enable patients to receive increased rehabilitation periods – particularly in isolated and rural areas; and through extensive technological advancements, together with supervision-support

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July 2021  –  Kick-starting with the Open Market Consultation

The overview below is taken from the Rosia Open Market Consultation (OMC) Document

The Open Market Consultation was launched on 12^th July with four online events, organised, respectively, by the buyers in this project (Sanidad Aragón, National Rehabilitation Hospital, Ireland, and Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Coimbra).

How will be ROSIA Project be kick-started?

“We use a PPI, a Public Procurement of Innovative solutions, an instrument to convoke intelligent solutions to problems citizens face; solutions that the market does not currently provide.  This has been used in Europe for a few years now, and it is also sometimes known as pre-commercial procurement (PCP). In a PCP, the state is involved in the co-creation process, together with private bidders, and in competition with them. The process will inspire a good number of new solutions and prototypes and the most interesting among them are going to be implemented and tested with live subjects in those European regions participating in ROSIA (Portugal, Ireland and Spain)”.

With all this, we hope to accomplish a triple victory: Patients, Healthcare and Entrepreneurship. Patients in rural areas will be empowered; they will be able to work through their rehabilitation programs from home. The healthcare system will be empowered; it will be able to meet its patients’ needs without requiring them to travel long distances. And the European business community will be empowered; it will have a chance to invest in new ideas and, above all, to find a way to market them.

What kinds of solutions are ROSIA looking for?

“We are thinking of disruptive technologies in the field of rehabilitation incorporating virtual reality, depth cameras, sensors, artificial intelligence, and so on. But there are also solutions related to integration of social and health services, municipal in most cases, with community resources. A fitness hour in the municipal sports centre, for instance, or a swimming class at the local pool may be included in a patient’s rehabilitation file and followed up by the rehabilitation specialist at the central healthcare facility. Still other solutions may be more closely related to motivating the individual to carry out prescribed exercises and programmes at home”.

Press Releases 

Press Releases issued by ROSIA to date:

* * * Press Release – 7th July 2021 * * *

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