Healthcare 5.0 supporting the transformative shift of regions
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the critical role of digital health in attaining universal health coverage and in supporting efforts to make health care more efficient, accessible and effective is now clearly recognized. At the same time, the pressures resulting from COVID-19 have shown important disparities in the capacity that countries and regions have to digitally transform their healthcare systems. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that the focus on digital approaches, may inadvertently widen existing regional inequities in health if known inequalities in access, use and engagement with digital technology are not properly considered and addressed.
The emerging idea of Industry 5.0 in the healthcare sector, also known as Healthcare 5.0 makes use of cutting-edge technologies to revolutionise healthcare delivery, improve patient outcomes and improve the healthcare experience as a whole.
The project focuses on those fields of application where regional and local policies can play a role, namely: telehealth, human-centric care, accessibility, digital health literacy and digital inclusion.
HUMAN’s overall objective is the provision of more affordable, accessible, equitable and resilient healthcare services through the introduction of Healthcare 5.0 solutions resulting from improved policy instruments in 8 European regions.
Specific objectives are:
1) Build the capacity of regional policymakers and other stakeholders to harness the potential that Healthcare 5.0 has towards a more user-centric, sustainable and resilient healthcare delivery.
2) Bridge the gap towards a more universal healthcare services by equipping professionals, patients and users with the required digital tools and skills to make the most of these solutions.
3) Enhance the patient and user’s experience by adopting a human-centric approach for digital technologies that support improved and more sustainable healthcare services.
Project website: https://www.interregeurope.eu/human
