EDGENEERING Lda., Portugal.
Maynooth University, Ireland.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 Aug 23;306:49-56. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230595.
Access to digital health and care solutions and services that promote healthy ageing, independent living, and ageing in place is limited due to significant market barriers and challenges. The SHAPES project addresses the challenge of ageing populations by developing a sociotechnical ecosystem comprising a variety of health and care digital solutions, tools and services to enable and facilitate active, independent, and healthy ageing at home. Within the SHAPES project, the SHAPES Marketplace serves as a one-stop-shop for digital solutions and services designed for the Silver Economy that target the smart and healthy ageing and independent living markets. Delivering a dynamic catalogue of health and care digital solutions and services, the Marketplace promotes a transparent expansion of a trusted market offer on digital solutions and services for healthy ageing and independent living on a pan-European scale, thereby preventing vendor lock-in and enhancing the agile and fair competitiveness of the health and care industry, particularly in Europe. This paper introduces the SHAPES Marketplace and considers its function as a market driver to raise awareness on the benefits and impact of health and care digital solutions and services, as well as to shape the healthy ageing market, upholding the Systems-Market for Assistive and Related Technologies (SMART) Thinking Matrix to stimulate transparency, trust and fair competition.
由于存在重大的市场障碍和挑战，人们获取促进健康老龄化、独立生活和就地老龄化的数字健康和护理解决方案和服务的机会有限。SHAPES 项目通过开发一个由各种健康和护理数字解决方案、工具和服务组成的社会技术生态系统来应对人口老龄化的挑战，这些解决方案、工具和服务旨在促进在家中积极、独立和健康地老龄化。在 SHAPES 项目中，SHAPES 市场充当了一个一站式商店，提供针对银色经济的数字解决方案和服务，这些解决方案和服务针对智能和健康老龄化以及独立生活市场。该市场提供了健康老龄化和独立生活数字解决方案和服务的动态目录，促进了在泛欧范围内对健康老龄化和独立生活数字解决方案和服务的可信市场供应进行透明扩展，从而防止供应商锁定，并增强健康和护理行业的敏捷性和公平竞争力，尤其是在欧洲。本文介绍了 SHAPES 市场，并考虑了其作为市场驱动因素的功能，以提高人们对健康和护理数字解决方案和服务的好处和影响的认识，并塑造健康老龄化市场，坚持辅助和相关技术的系统-市场（SMART）思维矩阵，以促进透明度、信任和公平竞争。
