FUNDACIO DE GESTIO SANITARIA DE L'HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU

Their core work

This is the management foundation of Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, one of Barcelona's largest teaching hospitals and a reference centre for cardiology and chronic-disease care. Their H2020 work uses the hospital as a living testbed for digital health solutions — remote cardiac monitoring, AI-supported care pathways, and integrated management of heart failure and frailty. They uniquely combine clinical delivery with innovation procurement, acting as a public buyer that helps SMEs and vendors validate medical technology in real clinical settings.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In 2016-2020 their focus was narrow and device-centred — remote monitoring of arrhythmia patients and using risk-sharing procurement to bring that ICT into routine care (RITMOCORE). From 2021 onwards they have moved up the complexity curve: coordinating TIQUE themselves and broadening scope from a single condition to integrated care for multi-morbid heart-failure and frailty patients, with AI and eHealth at the centre. The trajectory is from "buying a monitoring tool" to "redesigning the care pathway with data".

They are positioning themselves as a coordinating European reference site for AI-driven integrated care in cardiology and frailty — a strong fit for partners with decision-support software, wearables, or care-pathway platforms seeking clinical validation.

How they like to work

They progressed from participant (RITMOCORE) to full coordinator (TIQUE), showing growing confidence in leading European consortia. Both projects were mid-sized groups built around innovation procurement — typically a handful of public buyers plus technology suppliers rather than large academic networks. Expect a pragmatic, clinically-driven partner that prefers structured procurement frameworks over open-ended research collaborations.

Across their two H2020 projects they have worked with 14 distinct partners in 6 countries, a focused European network rather than a sprawling one. The collaboration pattern is centred on Western European public healthcare buyers and digital-health suppliers.

What sets them apart

Very few European hospitals have coordinated H2020 projects under both PCP and PPI instruments — this foundation has done both. That makes them one of the rare clinical organisations that can credibly act as a launch customer for digital-health SMEs, not just a research collaborator. Partnering with them means access to a large Barcelona teaching hospital plus a team that knows how to turn a pilot into a procurement.

Highlights from their portfolio

• TIQUE
  Their first coordinator role and largest grant (EUR 4.55M), running to 2026, signalling they now lead European innovation-procurement consortia in integrated care.
• RITMOCORE
  A pioneering Pre-Commercial Procurement project for arrhythmia remote monitoring, giving them early operational experience with risk-sharing procurement models.