The document discusses the DECIPHER project and AQuAS, an agency in Catalonia. AQuAS works to improve the quality and sustainability of the Catalan healthcare system by analyzing structured information and identifying best practices. Its innovation unit works on procurement projects at both the regional and European level, including DECIPHER, which aims to develop a distributed European patient healthcare record. The document provides information on AQuAS and its role in innovation procurement projects like DECIPHER.
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DECIPHER
Distributed European Community Individual
Patient Healthcare Electronic Record
Rossana Alessandrello
Agència de Qualitat i Avaluaciò Sanitàries de Catalunya
ralessandrello@gencat.cat
decipher.aquas@gencat.cat
Co-funded
by the European Union1
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The agency has the mission to
contribute to the improvement of
the quality, safety and
sustainability of the Catalan
Healthcare System by means of the
generation of relevant knowledge
fruit of the analysis of structured
information, benchmarking definition,
identification of best practices and
impact assessment.
MISSION
A public company that
generates knowledge from
the assessment of the
healthcare system useful to
the main stakeholders of the
public Catalan Health
System (policy makers,
health care managers,
professionals and citizens)
AQuAS – Who we are
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AQuAS Innovation unit is responsible to
strengthen the innovation culture
within the DoH and is actively working
in the development and adoption of
the two procurement instruments:
PPI and PCP. AQuAS is a reference
in Innovation Procurement in Spain
thanks to the experience gained at
regional level (e.g.: drug storage and
dispenser, mental health genetic-
pharmacological service, etc) and at
European level (DECIPHER, INSPIRE,
etc)
Innovation
AQuAS – Who we are
Catalan
Health
System
Observ
atory
ICT
Assess
ment
Innova
tion
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