“One Health” Approach for Health Innovation and Active Aging in Campania (Italy)

Abstract

This article describes how innovations are exploited in Campania (Italy) to improve health outcomes, quality of life, and sustainability of social and healthcare services. Campania's strategy for digitalization of health and care and for healthy aging is based on a person-centered, life-course, “One Health” approach, where demographic change is considered capable of stimulating a growth dynamic linked to the opportunities of combining the “Silver Economy” with local assets and the specific health needs of the population. The end-users (citizens, patients, and professionals) contribute to the co-creation of products and services, being involved in the identification of unmet needs and test-bed activity. The Campania Reference Site of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging is a flexible regional ecosystem to address the challenge of an aging population with a life-course approach. The good practices, developed in the context of research and innovation projects and innovative procurements by local stakeholders and collaborations with international networks, have been allowing the transfer of innovative solutions, knowledge, and skills to the stakeholders of such a multi-sectoral ecosystem for health.

Investigación sobre la producción científica en relación con la silver economy

“…Respecto a cuestiones relacionadas con la salud, hay estudios para aplicar innovaciones, como el enfoque centrado en la persona, con el objetivo de mejorar los resultados sanitarios, la calidad de vida y la sostenibilidad de los servicios sociales y sanitarios (De Luca et al, 2021). Del mismo modo, se alude a la tecnología digital para aumentar la eficacia de los servicios sanitarios (Erceg et al, 2021;Hofman et al, 2019); o a la importancia de mejorar la calidad, en términos de diseño de los productos sanitarios (Guo et al, 2018).…”

Artificial Intelligence in Hypertension Management: An Ace up Your Sleeve

“…In this scenario, the possibility of collecting, storing, and analyzing multiple pieces of information from a single patient in the form of electronic health records (EHRs) requires revising the conventional healthcare model of AH management using new technologies or monitoring techniques [ 11 , 12 ]. In this context, artificial intelligence (AI) is a technological method that has been in development in recent years [ 13 , 14 , 15 ], and, if used appropriately, it could have surprising results in developing predictive models of AH, formulating the diagnosis, stratifying patients, and identifying the most effective therapy ( Table 1 ).…”

A European arena for joint innovation in healthcare: The Platform for Innovation of Procurement and Procurement of Innovation (PiPPi)

“…Although it is clear that a concerted public policy effort has gone into stimulating innovation performance in the EU, there remains a gap in the actual knowledge and usage of the PCP and PPI tools. A small number of successful models, such as Campania's regional “One Health” approach ( 29 ), and isolated examples can be found, primarily of projects funded through the Horizon 2020 program ( 30 ), but innovative procurement still remains the exception. This is especially true when considering a subpopulation of university hospitals.…”