ROSIA organizes co-creation sessions

ROSIA organizes co-creation sessions

ROSIA organizes co-creation sessions

ROSIA organizes co-creation sessions with stakeholders related to the project: procurers, patients, developers and healthcare professionals.

ROSIA is organizing four co-creation sessions with stakeholders

The sessions will consist of webinars addressed to different stakeholder groups related to the project: procurers, patients, developers and healthcare professionals. The aim is to present the project and the pilots being developed to these groups, so that they can provide their feedback, proposing improvements from the patients’ point of view, or discussing commercialization / exploitation alternatives. This activity will help to better adjust the solutions developed to the needs of each of the groups.

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ROSIA CO-CREATION SESSIONS

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Tele-rehabilitation for Healthcare Professionals

June 5  –  2025

11:00 AM – 1:30 PM (CET)

Patients, Families, and Communities

June 26  –  2025

3:00 PM – 5:30 PM (CET)

Application Developers

September 4  –  2025

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (CET)

Buyers Group, Demand-Side, and Multipliers

September 25  –  2025

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (CET)

ROSIA PCP Project enters the Final Pilot Phase

ROSIA PCP Project enters the Final Pilot Phase

ROSIA PCP Project enters the Final Pilot Phase

ROSIA PCP Project enters the Final Pilot Phase

ROSIA PCP Project enters the Final Pilot Phase to bring Telerehabilitation to Rural Areas across Europe.

      • ROSIA aims to create an innovative telerehabilitation open platform for remote and rural areas. It is a pre-commercial public procurement initiative funded by the European Commission with 5 million euros. Of this amount, 3.9 million euros are allocated as the budget for the tendering of participating companies, divided into three competitive phases. ROSIA is more than just a public procurement initiative—it is creating an open innovation platform that will integrate digital rehabilitation solutions into healthcare ecosystems.
      • Health systems from Spain, Portugal, and Ireland are leading the initiative, with pilot testing underway until July 2025.
      • The project will conclude in December 2025, paving the way for European healthcare systems to adopt the ROSIA platform.

The ROSIA project has reached a critical milestone towards the future of digital rehabilitation with the start of its pilot phase across health systems in Spain, Portugal, and Ireland. This pioneering initiative aims to bridge the gap in rehabilitation services for patients living in rural and remote regions by developing the infrastructure and procedures that enable smart telerehabilitation solutions to be offered in an integrated care pathway. ROSIA opens the door to advances in the development of telerehabilitation for inclusion in clinical practice and provides real-time supervision, support and information management for patients undergoing rehabilitation for certain conditions.

A Crucial Phase: Pilot Testing Until July 2025

In 2024, two consortia were selected after a rigorous evaluation process to develop and test the prototypes during the final phase of the project. Fundació Eurecat (Spain) and Ethniko Kentro – CERTH (Greece) are leading the pilot testing of their respective solutions- Rehabilify and Raise–  with patient groups, in collaboration with health and social care professionals. This phase will run until July 2025, with a final demonstration planned for after the summer.

The results will provide essential insights for the large-scale implementation of the ROSIA platform in healthcare systems across Europe, enabling improved access to high-quality rehabilitation services in rural and remote areas.

An International Collaboration

ROSIA is a collaborative effort involving numerous institutions and partners from five European countries. The project is coordinated by Instituto Aragones de Ciencias de la Salud (IACS, Spain) and driven by three public healthcare systems: Servicio Aragones de Salud (SALUD, Spain), Unidade Local de Saúde de Coimbra (ULS, Portugal), and the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH, Ireland). Other key partners include VALDE Innova (Spain), the Instituto Pedro Nunes (Portugal), The International Foundation for Integrated Care (The Netherlands), The Decision Group(The Netherlands), el Instituto para la Experiencia del Paciente (Spain), PPCN.xyz Aps (Denmark) and the municipalities of Penela and Soure in Portugal.

This pioneering platform aims to lower the barriers for SMEs developing apps, services, and medical devices to enter national and regional healthcare markets, where integration challenges have traditionally slowed innovation. By opening access to a structured ecosystem, one of the ROSIA’s goals is to empower health-tech startups and developers to collaborate with healthcare providers, ensuring that cutting-edge rehabilitation technologies reach patients faster.

    The Solutions: Rehabilify and Raise

    REHABILIFY is the solution developed by a Spanish Consortium Led by the Spanish technology centre Fundació Eurecat, which also involves two other Spanish entities, the SME Doole Health, and the Germans Trias i Pujol research Centre (IGTP).

    RAISE has been developed by an international consortium Led by the Greek entity CERTH (Centre For Research And Technology Hellas, Ethniko Kentro), which also integrates the Spanish TELEVES, IBV and Vidavo, the Greek Research Committee University Ioannina (UoI) and the Portuguese INESCTEC.

    Both solutions aim to improve the sustainability of rehabilitation programs, enhance equity in access to services, and open up new business models and incentives for service providers across Europe.

      Towards a New Era of Telerehabilitation in Europe

      The insights gained and lessons learned during the pilot phase will be key in shaping the future of telerehabilitation in Europe. The ROSIA platform aims to allow healthcare systems to easily integrate telerehabilitation into their existing services, providing patients with improved care while reducing geographical barriers and enhancing resource efficiency.

      ROSIA reaches the final phase with two contractors

      ROSIA reaches the final phase with two contractors

      ROSIA reaches the final phase with two contractors

      ROSIA reaches the final phase with two contractors

      ROSIA, the European pre-commercial public procurement project for telerehabilitation in remote areas, has successfully entered the third and final phase of the R&D competition with two contractors awarded.

      Zaragoza, 20June 2024. ROSIA (Remote Rehabilitation  Service for Isolated Areas) has successfully awarded the third phase of the R&D competition for the field testing of two solutions to be validated by three public procurers: Servicio Aragonés de Saluin Spain, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra in Portugal, and the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Ireland.

      Rehabilitation in remote areas creates many difficulties for patients and families, is often insufficient, and this situation reduces the quality of life of patients in the long term and may even lead to avoidable disabilities. Existing technologies may be of help, but their integration into the procedures and infrastructure of public health systems makes them impractical. ROSIA targets this unmet need. Through an open platform, that includes a catalogue of apps and services, the contractors are creating an ecosystem of developers to address this need. ROSIA also addresses the organisational change required for the adoption of telerehabilitation, facilitating the implementation of integrated care models.

      The awarded solutions to be tested in Phase 3 are:

      REHABILIFY is the proposal of a Spanish Consortium Led by the Spanish technology centre Fundació Eurecat, which also involves two other Spanish entities, the SME Doole Health, and the Germans Trias i Pujol research centre (IGTP)

      RAISE will be developed by an international consortium Led by the Greek entity CERTH (Centre For Research And Technology Hellas, Ethniko Kentro), which also integrates the Spanish TELEVES, IBV and Vidavo, the Greek Research Committee University Ioannina (UoI) and the Portuguese INESCTEC.

      The total budget for this Phase 3 will be €2.367.940,96 (including 21% VAT) to be shared between both contractors.

      – Pre-commercial public procurement is a phased R&D competition in which several public administrations define a common unmet need that is not yet covered by the market.

      – Phase 1 focused on the detailed design of the solution, phase 2 on the development of the prototype and phase 3 on the validation of the complete solution. The total budget to be distributed between contractors in the three phases was €3.9 million

      – Project ROSIA PCP was launched in January 2021 and involves 12 partners across 5 countries:

      The project is coordinated by IACS (Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud) and supported by eight other entities with complementary profiles: VALDE (Spain), Instituto Pedro Nunes – IPN (Portugal), The International Foundation for Integrated Care – IFIC (The Netherlands), The Decision Group (The Netherlands), Instituto para la Experiencia del Paciente – IEXP (Spain), PPCN Aps (Denmark) and the Municipalities Penela and Soure in Portugal. The three public procurers are: Servicio Aragonés de Saluin Spain, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra in Portugal, and the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Ireland.

      Contractors Newsletter

      Contractors Newsletter

      Contractors Newsletter

      Contractors Newsletter

      We are pleased to share with you the Contractors Newsletter, in which all participants in Phase 2 Implementation provide information about their project, the opportunity to participate in ROSIA and the challenges that ROSIA will try to overcome.

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      Contractors Newsletter

      The second Phase is in progress

      The second Phase is in progress

      Press Note awarded Phase 2 Final, ROSIA-PCP

      The second Phase of the European Pre-Commercial Public Procurement process of the ROSIA project has started with three awarded contractors.

          • Pre-commercial public procurement is a phased R&D competition in which several public administrations define a common need not covered by the market.
          • ROSIA aims to unlock the telerehabilitation market through the development of an innovation ecosystem that enables the integration of public health services with patient self-care and self-management tools and community services.
          • Phase 1 aimed at the detailed design of the solution, phase 2 will consist of the development of the prototype and phase 3 the validation of the complete solution. The total funding is €3.9M.

       

      Zaragoza, 26 June 2023. ROSIA has successfully awarded the second phase of the research competition for the development of three prototypes which will be co-created with the three buyers’ organisations.

      Project ROSIA PCP was launched in January 2021 and involves 12 partners across 5 countries. The project’s three public procurers are: Servicio Aragonés de Saluin Spain, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra in Portugal, and the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Ireland.

      The project is coordinated by IACS (Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud) and supported by eight other entities with complementary profiles: VALDE (Spain), Instituto Pedro Nunes (Portugal), The International Foundation for Integrated Care (The Netherlands), The Decision Group (The Netherlands), Instituto para la Experiencia del Paciente (Spain), PPCN.xyz Aps (Denmark) and the Municipalities Penela and Soure in Portugal.

      The potential of tele-rehabilitation in improving the quality of healthcare services is well recognised and substantiated. However, barriers to its adoption remain unresolved. ROSIA aims to develop solutions to overcome these barriers.

      The results obtained and the lessons learned during the ROSIA project execution will help the deployment of a telerehabilitation solutions platform, easily integrated into any health service in Europe. The applications and devices of the ROSIA Catalogue will be connected to this platform, allowing the integration of community and supervised self-care services into the care plan of each patient. The ROSIA model of integrated value-based care can also open the door to rethinking new business models and incentives for providers, improve equity in access to rehabilitation resources and contribute to improving the sustainability of these services.

      The awarded contractors are:

      PROHAB is the proposal of a Spanish consortium led by the Research Center Fundació EURECAT in cooperation with the SME Doole Health and the Research Institute Germans Trias i Pujol. The PROHAB solution offers a dual-system-based approach. On one side, a patient management center to all the involved professionals, following an integrated-care approach and incorporating a system to support decision-making. On the other hand, a patient with rehabilitation needs will benefit from an application that promotes self-management, behavioral change, and better follow-up. PROHAB will be ready for integration with third-party solutions and devices thanks to an open portal that enables and supports a unique access point for prescription of remote rehabilitation solutions.

      RAISE will be developed by an international consortium led by the Greek Research Institute ETHNIKO and including the Spanish partners Televés, a large company, and the Research Institute Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia, the Greek University Panepistimio Ioanninon and Vidavo, a SME, and the Portuguese Research institute INESCTEC.RAISE initiates an innovative set of tools for an integrated patient tele-rehabilitation pathway, whose main pillars are: an open platform available to patients, their informal caregivers and healthcare professionals, integrating the design of the Shared Care Plan (SCP), prescription recommendation, and social collaboration for the tele-rehabilitation period; a catalogue of devices, services and tools empowering and educating patients towards self- management; and a developers’ layer on which the solutions will be built.

      REHABILITA+ will be developed by the Spanish large company GMV. Rehabilita+ will be an Open Platform to provide rehabilitation services to the healthcare providers under proper regulatory and standards compliance frameworks. The openness of the platform will enable solutions providers to faster develop high-quality solutions and populate a catalogue with apps and solutions for telerehabilitation. Solution providers will be able to easily focus on adding actual value to their apps or platforms built on top of Rehabilita+ and speeding up the creation of new solutions with high impact in telerehabilitation.

      The second phase of the competition will last ten months, with a maximum budget for the second tender of €300,000 VAT included per contractor to develop the prototype of their solution. During this period, a team made up of representatives of the three purchasers will closely follow the evolution, co-creating the solution with the contractors for the alignment of their proposals with the shared needs of the purchasers.

      To access the next phase, these contractors will have to go through a new evaluation of their results, in which only two of the contractors will be selected and will have a budget of €1,450,000 (including 21% VAT) each, to be carried out between March-2024 and May-2025.

      ROSIA Team

      Successful end Phase 1 of the European precommercial public procurement project ROSIA-PCP

      Successful end Phase 1 of the European precommercial public procurement project ROSIA-PCP

      Successful end Phase 1 of the European precommercial public procurement project ROSIA-PCP

      End Phase 1 of the European precommercial public procurement project ROSIA-PCP
      ROSIA-PCP announces the successful and promising closure of Phase 1 of the European precommercial public procurement project ROSIA
      • Pre-commercial public procurement is a phased R&D competition in which several public administrations define a common need not covered by the market.
      • ROSIA aims to unlock the telerehabilitation market through the development of an innovation ecosystem that enables the integration of public health services with patient self-care and self-management tools and community services.
      • Phase 1 aimed at the detailed design of the solution, phase 2 will consist of the development of the prototype and phase 3 the validation of the complete solution. The total funding is €3.9M.
      Zaragoza, 23 February 2023. ROSIA has successfully completed phase 1 of the competition that started on 28 October 2022 with the publication on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) of the five winning bidders from the ‘Open Tender’ process.  All five have successfully completed this stage with proposals based on open platforms, cutting-edge technologies and highly innovative approaches that bring us closer to data-driven health, the use of sensors and the enormous potential of mobile phones. ROSIA (Remote Rehabilitation for Isolated Areas) is a project co-funded by the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation programme under the pre-commercial public procurement (PCP) instrument and agreement GA 101017606. The three public bodies participating in the ROSIA project procurement team are the Aragonese Health Service, the National Rehabilitation Hospital (Ireland) and the Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra.  The Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (IACS) is leading the project and executing the joint procurement procedure on behalf of all three organisations. The five contractors involved in this phase are:

      RAISE is the name of the proposal led by the Greek entity CERTH (Centre For Research And Technology Hellas), which also integrates the Spanish TELEVES, IBV and Vidavo, the Greek Research Committee University Ioannina (UoI) and Trilateral Research, and the Portuguese INESCTEC.

      – The Spanish technology centre Eurecat is leading the PROHAB proposal, which also involves two other Spanish entities, the SME Doole Health, and the Germans Trias i Pujol research centre (IGTP).

      – The Spanish companies Bahia Software and Rehametric are presenting under the ULTREIA proposal, led by the former.

      – The most international consortium is led by the Greek technology centre; Foundation For Research And Technology Hellas (FORTH) and includes the SMEs DyCare (Spain), Konnektable Technologies (Ireland), LifeCharger (Italy), Wellics (UK); the companies PDMFC Group (Portugal) and Uni Systems (Greece).

      – The fifth successful bidder is the Spanish company GMV, which submitted Rehabilita+.

      The first implementation phase lasted three months and each contractor signed a €20,000 contract to develop the design of their proposed solution. During this period, a team made up of representatives of the three purchasers closely followed the evolution, resolving doubts and giving recommendations to the contractors for the alignment of their proposals with the shared needs of the purchasers. To access the next phase, these contractors will have to go through a new evaluation of their proposals, in which only three of the contractors will be selected and will have a budget of €300,000 (including 21% VAT) each, to be carried out between March-April 2023 and February-January 2024. The results obtained and the lessons learned during the project execution will help the deployment of a telerehabilitation solutions platform, easily integrated into any health service in Europe. In the future, the applications and devices of the ROSIA Catalogue will be connected to this platform, allowing the integration of community and supervised self-care services into the care plan of each patient. The ROSIA model of integrated value-based care can also open the door to rethinking new business models and incentives for providers, improve equity in access to rehabilitation resources and contribute to improving the sustainability of these services.
       
      EU co-funded project ROSIA closes its call for tender with 10 bids

      EU co-funded project ROSIA closes its call for tender with 10 bids

      EU co-funded project ROSIA closes its call for tender with 10 bids

      ROSIA closes call for tender
      • A total of 10 bids were received by the 30 June deadline
      • The award report will be published on 29 September

      Zaragoza, 15 July 2022.– H2020 co-funded PCP (Pre-Commercial Procurement) project ROSIA PCP has closed its call for tender with a promising total of 10 bids received. The call remained open from March 31st until June 30th on the Spanish Public Procurement Platform, where the award report will be published on September 29th.

      The formal tender-opening session (Administrative and Technical envelopes) was held confidentially on July 1st. After studying the proposals, confirming that all requirements were met, and clarifying any ambiguities, the total number of 10 bids was formally announced.

      Many of the bids were submitted by consortia formed by an international set of companies. Given the broad scope of the ROSIA’s tender, this is another promising sign.

      The bids will be evaluated during July and August, and on September 9th the Financial envelopes will be opened in an session to which all non-excluded bidders will be invited. The list of awarded proposals will then be published on September 29th, and the signature of contracts for phase 1 will take place on October 19th.

      Following the PCP process, the five awarded consortia in the tender will compete during the design phase of the solution (Phase 1) and the three solutions receiving the highest evaluations by the technical committee will move on to the prototyping phase (Phase 2). Finally, only two prototypes will be selected to enter the pilot phase (Phase 3).

      ROSIA aims to develop an innovative technological ecosystem that enables the development of tele-rehabilitation solutions for rural areas. ROSIA’s ecosystem will be made up of:

      1. ROSIA Open Platform, to manage data and communications, and run shared services & solutions.
      2. ROSIA Developer Layer, to facilitate the collaboration between service providers to either develop, test, and/or deploy services for remote telerehabilitation.
      3. ROSIA Catalogue, to provide a ROSIA-compliant certified list of safe telerehabilitation digital therapeutics apps and smart devices to be “prescribed” to patients for self-care and self-monitoring.
      Project ROSIA PCP was launched in January 2021 and involves 12 partners across 5 countries. The project’s three public procurers are: Servicio Aragonés de Salud in Spain, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra in Portugal, and the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Ireland.

      The project is coordinated by IACS and supported by eight other entities with complementary profiles: VALDE (Spain), Instituto Pedro Nunes (Portugal), The International Foundation for Integrated Care (The Netherlands), The Decision Group (The Netherlands), Instituto para la Experiencia del Paciente (Spain), PPCN.xyz Aps (Denmark) and the Municipalities Panela and Soure in Portugal.

      ROSIA has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No101017606

      Explanatory workshop on ROSIA’s call for tender

      Explanatory workshop on ROSIA’s call for tender

      Explanatory workshop on ROSIA’s call for tender

      Explanatory workshop on ROSIA

      PCP project ROSIA, co-funded by the EU programme Horizon 2020, has officially launched its €3.9m call  for tender, open until 30 June 2022.
      Next week, on 9 May, from 10 to 11:30 am (CEST), the project is holding an Explanatory workshop on ROSIA-PCP call for tender.

      ROSIA aims to provide access to public health services to a suite of disruptive innovations in the telerehabilitation market through an open platform and an innovation ecosystem.

      The platform and ecosystem will be designed to invite and support third party innovative solutions in tele-rehabilitation, while at the same time be accessible to health care professionals, facilitating the medical prescription of these solutions.
      The project is led by the Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de La Salud (IACS), and includes public procurers el Servicio Aragonés de Salud (Spain), National Rehabilitation Hospital (Ireland) and University Hospital of Coimbra (Portugal).
      Companies wishing to bid have until 30 June 2022.

      If you are planning to bid and have any doubts about the scope or requirements of the tender, or about the PCP process, we have developed a workshop just for you.

      Please feel free to register and join us at ZOOM 

      ROSIA Team

      Explanatory workshop on ROSIA-PCP

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