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Conditions of contract
Area: Pre-Commercial Procurement

Are set rights and obligations that the contracting parties need to follow when a contract is awarded

Consumer mobile health app
Area: Emergency Medical Services

Electronic solution that enables the consumer to collect, retrieve, manage, use and share personal information and other health-related data.

Contract
Area: Pre-Commercial Procurement

A binding agreement between two parties to perform/deliver specified goods and/or services

Contract award
Area: Pre-Commercial Procurement

Follows when the procurement process is finalized, contracts are awarded to the winner of the tender competition

Contract implementation stage
Area: Pre-Commercial Procurement

Innovation procurement involves 3 stages and several steps per stage: 3. Contract implementation stage (after procurement), covering the following steps: - continuous monitoring and assessing the final results of the R&D (PCP) or deployment (PPI), payment of supplier(s); - in case of PCP, this is repeated for every PCP phase and is followed by a selection of the R&D providers that continue to the next R&D Phase.

Core Metrics
Area: Pre-Commercial Procurement

Small set of metrics that all organisations should measure in a consistent manner and report on internally and publicly

Coronary Heart Disease
Area: Emergency Medical Services

A disease in which there is a narrowing or blockage of the coronary arteries (blood vessels that carry blood and oxygen to the heart). Coronary heart disease is usually caused by atherosclerosis (a build-up of fatty material and plaque inside the coronary arteries)

Cost benefit analysis
Area: Pre-Commercial Procurement

The process for calculating and comparing the costs and benefits of a product or activity

Criteria Based Dispatch
Area: Emergency Medical Services

It is centered on two dimensions that characterize all pre-hospital emergency response. These include: the level of care and the urgency of care

Critical patients
Area: Emergency Medical Services

Patients who are very ill, and might have unstable vital signs outside the normal limits

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