David Chadima
Healthcare Innovation Manager, Bax
David Chadima is an Innovation Manager at Bax, based in Barcelona. His work sits where healthcare and homecare technologies meet real care settings, with a focus on how promising solutions actually get piloted, adopted and scaled rather than left as prototypes. He speaks on behalf of ACE, the Interreg North Sea project that spent 3,5 years accelerating the uptake of homecare technologies for older adults across six countries. ACE put technologies into the hands of care workers, providers and older adults, tested them in day-to-day care, and gathered honest feedback on what worked, what got in the way, and what it takes to make adoption stick. David's contribution centred on translating that hands-on pilot experience into practical guidance for care organisations and decision-makers, and on drawing out the conditions that let homecare innovation take hold in real life rather than only in trials.
That interest in moving from pilot to lasting practice runs through his wider work. He leads DigiH4A, which works with digital health SMEs to open reimbursement pathways and build trust between providers and patients, two of the barriers that most often keep good technologies from reaching patients at scale. He has co-authored a report on how digital health SMEs navigate reimbursement across the EU, and has presented on EU-wide homecare implementation on the international stage.
He brings a view of what real-world implementation actually demands. Close work with end users, attention to the everyday realities of care, and a clear eye on the systemic conditions, from funding to trust, that decide whether a technology is used briefly or becomes part of everyday care.