Public Private Party at Radical Health Festival
Sailab – MedTech Finland co-hosted a session on Public Private Party: Balancing Innovation, value and sustainability at Radical Health Festival on 20th January 2026.
The session moderated by Kirsi Talman (Leading Expert, Sailab MedTech Finland) was about healthcare innovation and how these innovations thrive at the intersection of public vision, private investment and sustainable implementation. However, achieving this balance remains one of the Europe’s greatest challenges.
The session addressed questions such as:
- How can we improve healthcare professional and patient access to breakthrough innovations whilst managing constrained budgets and ensuring long-term sustainability?
Operationalising Precision Health: A Value-Based Payment Model for TAVI
Aki Haukilahti (Vice President of Tampere Heart Hospital) and Mette Lundsby (Principal Health Economist, Nordics, Medtronic) showcased how precision health can be operationalised using value-based payment model for TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation).
In their model, for example, value is assessed from different perspectives:
- Hospital (incentives for excellent outcomes and longevity, ensuring access)
- Payer (financial sustainability, pay for outcomes, access for patients)
- Patient (hospital and payer incentives reflects positively)
From the procurement & partnership perspective, the key aspects to success are:
- Innovative procurement
- Long term, high volume partnership contract
- Risk-sharing & incentive alignment with industry partner enabled
From the industry perspective, value based payment models are possible:
- In a competitive tender market
- With multiple stakeholders (procurement, finance, clinical society, supplier)
- By identifying relevant patient outcomes – decisions and pricing driven by local data
- By identifying incentives for efficiency and better outcomes
A Sustainable Future for Health: Integrating Innovation, Data and Partnership Models
Ramon Maspons Bosch (Chief Health Innovation Strategist, Ministry of Health, Government of Catalonia) highlighted that climate impact, social inequities, and data governance challenges are demanding a broader definition of sustainability as discussions often refer sustainability to environmental reporting or narrow ESG compliance, missing the deepest question: Is the health system itself sustainable in quality, equity, and resilience.
Therefore system-wide sustainability goals could enhance all dimensions of expanded sustainability:
- Environmental: fewer unnecessary tests, lower patient transport, optimized resource use
- Social: improved access, earlier detection, more patient autonomy
- Governance: transparent algorithms, responsible data use, outcome-based accountability
- Economic & Operational: productivity gains, avoided inefficiencies, scalable models of care
To achieve these benefits at scale, new public private partnerships (PPPs) are essential sharing
risk, investment, and data capabilities across the ecosystem.
Redesigning the goals can start, for example, by fresh and inspiring answers to questions as:
- Is it sustainable to keep hospitals as the central node of care?
- What if sustainability is not about greening healthcare but about eliminating wasteful care entirely?
- Should health systems measure digital readiness and innovation adoption speed as sustainability metrics?
- How would the system function if every stakeholder was paid based on outcomes only?
- Should “carbon per patient pathway” become a clinical quality metric?
The Swedish Way
Peter Alvinsson (Head of Department, Swedish eHealth Agency) gave excellent examples of collaboration between stakeholders.
One of the key enabler in Sweden, is the National Digital Infrastructure (NDI). NDI provides, for example:
- Shared technical and organizational foundations for data exchange and interoperability
- A platform upon which services, applications, and innovations can be developed
NDI also requires alignment with governance, regulation, incentives and stakeholder collaboration to deliver real value.
Panel discussion
After the presentations we heard the panel discussion and report back from the DHAGE (Digital Health Advisory Group for Europe) Satellite Event on Competitiveness and Public-Private Partnerships moderated by Tapani Piha.
Sailab MedTech Finland would like to warmly thank to Radical Health Festival organizers and all the speakers and participants in our session.
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