Circularity Dashboard
A visual tool helping European policymakers and institutions understand how digital health technologies can become more circular, cost-efficient, and sustainable.
The dashboard supports healthcare decision-makers, in particular regulators and policymakers, by enabling them:
- Evaluate how circular practices affect costs and emissions across Europe.
- Benchmark national and institutional performance in digital health.
- Explore “what-if” scenarios for regulation, reuse, and supply chain design.
Our Goal
Supporting the transition to a circular economy for digital health devices by making complex system data actionable for decision-makers.
About the Dashboard
Environmental Overview
The Environmental Overview shows emissions across each lifecycle stage of a digital health device. Users can see which materials and processes contribute most to environmental impacts and where circular strategies such as reuse, refurbishment, improved logistics, or material substitution offer the largest reduction potential. On this page, users can select a device type and directly compare environmental hotspots across multiple devices.
This view is particularly valuable for SMEs, healthcare organisations, circularity service providers, and public institutions, as it helps identify priority areas for improvement, guides sustainability planning, and supports alignment with circular-economy objectives.
Economic Overview
The Economic Dashboard quantifies the financial implications of circularity. It allows users to compare cost savings under different reuse or reprocessing rates and understand how circular strategies influence supply-chain and lifecycle costs over time.
On this page, users can select a device type to explore cost trends across multiple lifecycles, assess the economic viability of circular practices, and identify potential cost-saving opportunities. This view supports SMEs, manufacturers, healthcare providers, and public-sector actors in evaluating cost-benefit relationships, planning resource use, and understanding how circular models can strengthen economic resilience.
Circularity Map
The Circularity Map visualises volumes of reprocessed devices across Europe. It
reveals geographic disparities, highlights leaders and laggards, and supports EU-wide monitoring of circular health transitions. This module helps institutions understand regional performance and identify collaboration opportunities for scaling circularity.
From Data to Insight
The dashboard builds on insights from more than one million device records in the EU’s EUDAMED database, combined with sustainability studies and stakeholder interviews. These datasets form the backbone of circularity indicators that translate real-world regulatory, environmental, and economic patterns into decision-relevant insights.
Co-Creation with Stakeholders
The Circularity Dashboard was created through an extensive co-creation process across the DiCE consortium. Teams working on circularity, environmental impacts, economic modelling, and social factors collaborated to define the dashboard’s indicators and structure.
Throughout the development phase, the consortium held multiple workshops and feedback rounds, including:
- Stakeholder interviews with hospitals, manufacturers, service providers, and circularity experts.
- Co-creation workshops where partners jointly reviewed the dashboard’s logic, data sources, and visualisation approach.
- Lean Canvas and systems modelling sessions to refine the dashboard’s target groups, use cases, and overall value.
- Advisory board input to validate the prototype, assess feasibility, and guide the strategic direction.
These activities ensured that decisions about features, visuals, and priorities were grounded in the combined expertise of the consortium and aligned with real-world needs across the digital health value chain. The result is a dashboard shaped not by a single team, but through continuous collaboration between researchers, technical developers, healthcare actors, industry partners, and sustainability experts.
Share Your Feedback
Your feedback will guide the next development stage of the Circularity Dashboard.We invite you to test the clarity, relevance, and usability of the current concept and share your suggestions for improvement.