Dear HIFA colleagues,
The Fundación de Neurociencias (Spain, non-profit), a supporting organisation of HIFA, is preparing a concept for the Hospital Partnerships Alliance (HPA) Global Innovation Challenge 2027 under the pillar "The Future Doctor".
The challenge provides catalytic funding (backed by Germany’s BMZ and GIZ) for multilateral partnerships involving institutions across at least three countries, focused on practical, locally owned solutions that deliver measurable health system benefits in low- and
middle-income countries (LMICs).
The Concept:
Clinicians worldwide face an unmanaged flood of mobile apps, digital therapeutics, and wearables, with little independent evidence on clinical safety, usability, and local feasibility. We propose a shared, clinician-governed digital formulary. Local hospital teams and academic panels appraise and select digital health tools suited to their local health priorities, supported by our evaluation platform, Vadimecum (vadimecum.com), which catalogues over 1,300 tools with standardised Health Technology Assessment (HTA) cards and SNOMED CT clinical coding.
Who we are looking to partner with:
We invite university hospitals, clinical departments, medical/nursing schools, and national HTA or health-informatics bodies — particularly in Africa and other LMIC regions — interested in joining this multilateral proposal.
- Partners lead their own clinical evaluation panel and co-design the clinical guidelines.
- Vadimecum access is provided completely free of charge to partner institutions via API/MCP for the project duration.
- If selected, partners receive direct project grant funding (personnel, training, equipment, and operations) administered under GIZ guidelines.
At this stage, we only require an informal Expression of Interest to shape the joint Idea Brief.
If your institution is interested, or if you would like to discuss local digital health appraisal needs, please contact us at admin@fneurociencias.org by 15 December 2026 (challenge deadline is 17 January 2027).
Warm regards,
Dr. Manuel Menéndez González
Fundación de Neurociencias
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