Coalition Next's expectations are detailed in the « applicant guide ».
Coalition Next's main ambition is to accelerate the implementation of digital health solutions in belgian hospitals and home care organisations to benefit patients and healthcare professionals. Thus, Coalition Next expects projects:
• To be implementation ready
• To be open to collaborating with other stakeholders
• To present a real added value in health
Coalition Next aims to accelerate the implementation of digital innovations in the Belgian healthcare systems. When multiple members are interested in implementing a specific digital solution, all parties are gathered together to determine the needs and objectives of that implementation. During these meetings, it will be discussed what resources are required to realise an implementation. The private companies interested in your solution could eventually help fund the necessary resources for implementation. It's important to note that companies that support implementation are not entitled to equity.
The primary funding structures within the Coalition Next initiative are the health industry companies like, for example, pharmaceutical companies. Thus, all costs are eligible, provided they are justified and attributable to the project presented to the Coalition. Health manufacturers will check this aspect before any financial commitment on their part.
All founding members involved in Coalition Next are engaged to accelerate the widespread implementation of digital health solutions in the Belgian healthcare setting. To achieve this implementation, the commercial members can help fund the implementation. But funding depends on the interest in a specific solution. And the amount of funding depends on the money needed to implement that solution.
An innovative non-Belgian company can apply as much as a Belgian company. Coalition Next will review each applicant against the eligibility and selection criteria similarly.
The innovative companies eligible to apply are the following:
• Companies
• Foundations
• Associations
The main ambition of Coalition Next is to deploy solutions in hospitals and home care organisations as quickly as possible. Therefore we require solutions to have reached a certain level of maturity. Projects under development can be considered for a first "real-life" pilot, if the members are keen on embarking on that project. But as Coalition Next is all about implementation, more often than not, it is a solution that is already technically mature that can impact healthcare stakeholders immediately.
As we are looking to solve concrete needs, it is crucial to be as concrete as possible in your dossier. What need can one (or more) of your solutions solve concretely? Be pragmatic in your answer. Therefore, you might need to choose the most concrete one. But rest assured, success with the quick implementation of the first solution might also bring success with other solutions afterwards.
Different founding members of Coalition Next might have slightly different interests. Therefore it is interesting to indicate if your solution is disease agnostic. But it is also interesting to know whether your solution can achieve remarkable things in particular diseases. In this case, we can recommend indicating both scenarios.
