Health Innovation Netherlands is a multi-stakeholder infrastructure where patients, doctors, health care-providers, methodologists, CE-experts, entrepreneurs, insurers, investors and regulatory authorities all contribute to deliver better medical devices, faster.
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About HI-NL
Health Innovation Netherlands (HI-NL) aims at evaluating, implementing, and upscaling impactful innovations that match societal needs in order to help design a sustainable healthcare system – using fit-for-purpose evaluation processes:
- Earlier. Engaging at an early stage all important stakeholders involved in the use, evaluation, decision-making, implementation, reimbursement, and upscaling of innovations
- Faster. Ensuring a more rapid process via customization and proven ‘fit-for-innovation’ guidance
- More effective. Ultimately, we hope to contribute to the improved implementation of promising innovations, and termination or substitution of non-promising innovations.
HI-NL aims to become a leading public-private partnership, the go-to partner in the Netherlands, and a portal towards the rest of Europe and North America, whenever support is required for the evaluation and implementation of medical innovations.
HI-NL also aims to create a joint research agenda, which prioritizes the activities that can best improve healthcare and the innovation process. Much will also change when the new European regulation (MDR) takes effect in May 2020. This requires us to respond, but also provides us with a valuable opportunity to improve the current evaluation and decision-making process around non-pharmaceutical innovations.
HI-NL is supported by the Dutch Ministry of Health and is fully aligned with its mission on Health and Care.
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Project updates
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Interview Murray Sheldon
Dr. Murray Sheldon is Associate Director of Technology and Innovation at the FDA and leads the Medical Device Payer Communication Task Force. Before joining the FDA in 2013, he worked in several roles developing Medical Devices and providing expert consultancy services to innovators.
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Happy Birthday, HI-NL!
On 29 January 2020 Health Innovation Netherlands (HI-NL) was launched at the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in The Hague. Together with our partners we are looking back at a successful first year in which we set up our Round Table service to help valuable innovations reach patients faster. In the coming years we will further strengthen the HI-NL infrastructure to create even more impact in the Netherlands and abroad.
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"E-Novatie assessment" - article by HI-NL ambassadors published by ICT&Health
Recently an article by HI-NL ambassadors Erik Buskens and Manuela Joore was published by the magazine ICT&Health.
In the ICT&Health Article, they discuss the need for a wider scope of Health Technology Assessment to improve the benefit of health innovations. The reason for this is that health innovations increasingly require a wide range of adaptations in the healthcare system to be effective. The full article is available for download here (pdf file, in Dutch).