Project-COMFORT

📣 Take part in our survey and let us know how you feel about blood testing!
Project-COMFORT aims to make blood microsampling (done by yourself or remotely and not at a clinic) an accepted alternative to traditional blood tests. We need to hear from you if you are:
- a patient, a carer, or member of the general public;
- a healthcare professional,
- pharmaceutical, medtech, laboratory or logistics expert,
- regulatory, HTA expert, payer or policymaker.

Please share!
🔗 https://ihi-project-comfort.com/ongoing-work/opinion-and-experiences-surveys/

If you work for or represent any of the following organisations, we invite you to contribute:
• Regulatory organisation
• Health Technology Assessment (HTA) body
• Policy making body
• Payer organisation (e.g., national insurers, etc.)

🔍 Complete the survey here: https://qualicis.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_24TknaskZChKPrg?Partner=WEB

🩸 We are gathering valuable insights, perceptions, and past experiences related to blood tests to support an important research initiative!

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🎉 We achieved a huge project milestone in January with our first patient visit in our clinical study!!

Read more in our press release: https://ihi-project-comfort.com/project-comfort-announces-first-patient-in-fpi-in-multicentre-clinical-trial-for-new-blood-micro-sampling-technology/

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#PCmS #patientcentricbloodmicrosampling #patientengagement #patientinvolvement

📣 Help us hear from as many as possible on blood testing! 🙌

We are working on making 🩸 blood sampling more convenient for patients. Blood microsampling requires less blood and can be done at home. All answers to our 📝 Perception Surveys is will help us create a better solution for all.

Take the survey now ⏩ and/or 🛜 share the link below with your network:
https://ihi-project-comfort.com/ongoing-work/opinion-and-experiences-surveys/

#ProjectCOMFORT #PCMS #PatientCentricMicroSampling #IHI #healthcareinnovation

🌟 Introducing Project-COMFORT: Making lower volume, lower burden, lower pain blood collection an option for all.🌟

After two years of dedicated preparation, Project-COMFORT (Patient-Centric BlOod SaMpling FOr ImpRoved HealThcare) is officially launched! 🚀

📄 Read the full press release from here our LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/project-comfort_project-comfort-launches-press-release-activity-7275464903358853121-NL1J?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

#ProjectCOMFORT #BloodMicrosampling
#IHI #PatientInvolvement #PatientEngagement #HealthcareInnovation
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🧪 If you work in the pharmaceutical or medical technology industry, please share your insights by completing our survey: https://qualicis.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cBxkoCMwg0nxO1o?Partner=WEB

You can help us understand your perceptions and experiences with blood testing!

#ProjectCOMFORT is exploring how blood microsampling🩸can become a practical alternative to traditional blood draws - by comparing both methods, gathering user insights, co-creating training materials, and testing the logistics needed for wider adoption.

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Do you work in or represent the pharmaceutical or medical technology industries?

💡Take our survey and help us understand perceptions and experiences with blood testing: https://qualicis.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cBxkoCMwg0nxO1o?Partner=WEB

Project‑COMFORT is exploring blood microsampling as a practical alternative to traditional blood draws.

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#MedicalTechnology #PharmaIndustry #InnovationInHealth #BloodMicrosampling

🔬 Are you part of an analytical laboratory or a logistics solutions provider?
Your insights are essential to the future of at home blood microsampling.

If you work in or represent a lab or logistics provider, this version of the survey is for you: https://qualicis.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3IZbEWGYpwZABVQ?Partner=WEB

🗣️ Your feedback will help shape safer, more accessible, and more efficient solutions for blood collection!

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#ProjectCOMFORT #PCMS #PatientCentricMicroSampling

📣 🎉 Check out our official website! Everything about our initiative on Patient Centric Blood micro-Sampling is in there.

And as we make progress, open-source outputs will be uploaded here. Stay tuned!

https://ihi-project-comfort.com

🚀 Our 54-arganisations consortium believes that one of the foundation stones to build a more accessible and personalised approach to #healthcare and Decentralized #ClinicalTrials is the ability to test and monitor health using 🩸Patient Centric micro-Sampling
#healthInnovation #HorizonEU #PatientCare

The consortium met at the kick-off meeting in December and most of the partners met each other in-person for the first time.

All partners participating in one (or more) of the 7 work packages that focus on delivering a specific aspect of the work in the next 3,5 years.

➡️ Head over to our website to find out more about the different work packages and partners:

https://ihi-project-comfort.com/about-consortium/

#patientengagement #patientinvolvement #bloodmicrosampling #IHIproject #publicprivatepartnership

📸✨ Our first General Assembly group picture is here!

We celebrated 🎉 the start of this amazing journey together and strengthen 💪 our ways to make collaboration happen.

▶️ Learn more about Project-COMFORT on #microsampling #bloodsampling at https://ihi-project-comfort.com