Innovation Adoption in the Catalan Healthcare System Program
The Subcommittee on Innovation Adoption in Healthcare, coordinated by Biocat at the behest of the Catalan Ministry of Health, presented its Operating Plan in September with pathways and mechanisms for getting innovations into the Catalan Health System and to the people.
Catalan Minister of Health Manel Balcells i Díaz kicked off the session to present the Subcommittee on Innovation Adoption in Healthcare Operating Plan to 150 professionals from the sector who gathered at Palau Robert in Barcelona.
During the event, Coordinator of the Subcommittee on Innovation Adoption in Healthcare and Biocat CEO Robert Fabregat, CatSalut Director of Healthcare Services Ignasi Carrasco, AQuAS Director Sandra Garcia and Strategic Chair of the Ministry Innovation Commission Ramon Maspons announced the five priority actions that will be developed and rolled out progressively to improve how innovation reaches the healthcare system.
- Institutional governance and leadership
- Needs and priorities of the healthcare system
- Distributed, coordinated assessment capacity
- Identification of the innovation ecosystem
- Innovation guidance and assessment unit
Biocat was commissioned by the Catalan Ministry of Health to set up and coordinate the Subcommittee on Innovation Adoption in Healthcare, a transversal, multidisciplinary team that is bringing together the main stakeholders in the ecosystem from all phases of innovation for the first time. It is part of the Ministry of Health Commission on Innovation and Transformation of the Healthcare System, established in October 2022.
