To make sure that BigMedilytics concepts scale across Europe, the project is composed of 12 pilots that are distributed over three themes which have the greatest impact on the sector: Population Health and Chronic Disease Management, Oncology and Industrialization of Healthcare Services.
The first two themes together cover 78% of all deaths in from non-communicable diseases (non-infectious or non-transmissible) in Europe. All the pilots in these two themes collectively cover the entire Health Continuum. The third theme focuses on optimizing workflows in a hospital. This theme represents hospital operations and equipment cost, thus covering around 33% of the total cost of healthcare spending.
The learnings captured from the pilots are used to define a Blueprint (known as BigMedilyticsBigMatrix) which describes the best practices that need to be followed both from a technology and health policy perspective when rolling out big data solutions for the Healthcare sector in Europe.
1 Source: Luengo-Fernandez, R., Leal, J., Gray, A., & Sullivan, R. (2013). Economic burden of cancer across the European Union: a population-based cost analysis. The Lancet Oncology, 14(12), 1165–1174.