The Swedish-based consortium marks its win for CRANE to establish a European Health Data Space based on digital wallets

The consortium consisting of Combitech, Nordic Health Innovation and iGrant.io, proudly announces that it has qualified for the first procurement round of CRANE, a Horizon 2020 pre-commercial procurement (PCP) project that aims to develop an integrated self-management model to improve chronic patient well-being based on digital wallets.

An ageing population and a rising number of people with complex care need to call for a healthcare delivery system that can bring together a range of professionals, skills and health data from the entire ecosystem in a patient-centric manner. The fundamental problem these stakeholders face is not a lack of data but access to relevant data, often locked in organisational silos due to legal, technical or cultural challenges. The CRANE health data space solution with digital wallets addresses these issues and brings in the following benefits:

• For patients, it provides a self-management solution and empowers them to control and share their primary and secondary data. Treatments can be personalised by collecting data from multiple sources and sharing insights with the caregiver without compromising privacy and digital rights concerns.
• For organisations, the CRANE health data space makes endpoints and services discoverable via the data marketplace, powered by data intermediaries as per the EU Data Governance Act, while addressing critical data regulations in a scalable manner. Once discovered, they can dynamically enter into data-sharing agreements to share and reuse personal data across organisational boundaries.

Fredrik Tengel, sales director at Combitech, says, “We started the company with a vision to democratise healthcare in rural areas. This is an important milestone for achieving that”.

”We started the company with a vision to use technology to contribute to good quality, local health care, originally developed for the sparsely populated areas designed for scaling. Democracy through digitalisation and cooperation,” says Jonas Berggren, CEO and Co-founder of NH

“CRANE is a fantastic opportunity for us to validate our data intermediation service in the context of creating the first European Health Dataspace as well as introducing our digital wallet technology in healthcare”, says Lotta Lundin, CEO and co-founder of iGrant.io.

About Combitech

We at Combitech are accelerating the development of a smarter, more sustainable and more resilient society. Combining our solid experience within the defence- and industry sectors, we contribute to society by enabling the industry, total defence and communities to withstand the challenges of tomorrow. As a Nordic tech solution and consulting partner with 2100 passionate, highly skilled experts at our core, we partner with our customers to push the boundaries of technology and make a difference.

About Nordic Health Innovation

Nordic Health Innovation AB is a Swedish company founded in 2014 and based in Tärnaby. The company's vision is to develop tomorrow's systems for health care based on democracy and proximity to the individual. By starting from sparsely populated areas, systems can be created that work in urban environments, not necessarily the opposite way. NHI today delivers under the brand name Healfy a platform for distributed healthcare in various packages such as Virtual Health Rooms, Mini Health Centers, Home Monitoring and Mobile Health Rooms.