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At a Glance

Project description

Like many initiatives, healthcare is a sector that will benefit from Europe having a digital strategy that is more cross-sectoral than in the past.

DEI is about Digitising European Industry. The focus of OPEN DEI was therefore on openness.

OPEN DEI was a collaborative and support action which contributed to the objective to help make every industry in Europe benefit fully from digital innovations.

OPEN DEI’s three main foci were Open Source, Platforms and Pilots.

• OPEN DEI advocated the use of the Open Source Solutions Reference Implementation and Data-Information-Knowledge Exchange sharing mechanisms across domains.
• OPEN DEI supported the implementation of next-generation digital platforms in four sectors: manufacturing, agriculture, energy, and health.
• OPEN DEI created synergies between Large-Scale Pilots across different domains. It evaluated important and valuable pilot projects on digital transformation, and compare their methodologies, implementations, and results.

OPEN DEI used several Digital Maturity assessment methods and tools to evaluate four areas of work: processes, monitoring and control, technologies, and organisation.

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Creating open and interoperable data spaces remains key to the emergence of ubiquitous, cross-sectoral, data-driven ecosystems.

The OPEN DEI project was ambitious in helping to forge a new eco-system which:

• Initiated a cross-domain Innovation and Collaboration Platform.
• Established an interoperable network between the four industrial sectors.
• Developed communities’ digital skills in the domain of Digital Platforms.

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As a coordination and support action, the project’s focus was on identifying relevant state-of-the-art cross-domain content that could be appropriate to the four sectors of manufacturing, agriculture, energy, and health.

In each sector, an ambassador was responsible for liaising with the person’s own sector or community. Each sector was represented by a number of large-scale pilots that were funded by the European Commission.

- This is EHTEL’s OPEN DEI webpage 

EHTEL's role

EHTEL was OPEN DEI’s ambassador for the health sector.

EHTEL’s own members are particularly interested in the identification of new cross-domain content and processes.

EHTEL’s role was to act as a  two-way bridge between the healthcare sector and the other three industrial sectors.

EHTEL was instrumental in liaising with a set of working groups. These groups hadbeen set up to create synergies between seven innovative healthcare large-scale pilots funded by the European Commission. The working groups dealt with dissemination, use cases, key performance indicators, architecture, and the implications of the 2018 General Data Protection Regulation. 

Health data needs increasingly to be communicated, and communicate with organisations that are external to the field of health and care. Examples include in such areas as patients and their smartphones; Internet of Things infrastructure(s); and data produced by other sectors of the economy.

These new data contents and processes are needed to support:

• research and innovation
• the development of advanced clinical use cases that increasingly rely on artificial intelligence.

Of particular interest to EHTEL members is the identification of new cross-domain content and processes.

- To see what OPEN DEI did especially in relation to the health sector, see these Useful materials.

 

Useful materials

 

Position paper: An analysis of drivers and barriers for the uptake of digital platforms in Europe

 

• Position Paper: Design Principles for Data Spaces

• Reference architectures and interoperability in digital platforms

• Reference architecture for cross-domain digital transformation

 

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