HUMAN

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. Healthcare 5.0, with the right strategies in place, aims for a world where healthcare is affordable, accessible and equitable.

Aware of this, HUMAN brings together a well-balanced partnership in terms of expertise, geographical distribution and level of development. Along with its extensive network of relevant stakeholders, the HUMAN partnership cooperates to improve 8 policy instruments aiming a transformation towards a more efficient, targeted and universal healthcare.

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.