Sessions

The roll-out of digital innovation across all tiers of healthcare provision can inherently result in some patients finding it harder or indeed impossible to use new digital models of accessing care. You will hear about national UK NHS work undertaken to understand how to overcome barriers to creating digitally equitable pathways, in both hospital and primary care. Find out what tools, knowledge and guidance is needed to achieve Inclusive Digital Transformation across clinical pathways.

Digital Health investments have significantly dropped from the peak of 2021. Many founders face challenges in fundraising, and there is an increase in internal bridge rounds. What does the global digital health investment landscape look like? How are the Nordic countries doing?

Currently, Kanta provides a national e-health infrastructure and core information services. Kanta brings benefits for people, pharmacies and the social welfare and healthcare sector. Patient, social care customer/client and prescription data are collected in the centralized services.To foster development, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has launched a new strategy for digitalisation and information management in healthcare and social welfare late 2023.To illustrate Finnish current and future development approaches, some examples on digital solutions are presented.

Explore the world of Digital Therapeutics (DTx) in the presentation, "DTx: From Concept to Market." I'll cover key aspects such as cost considerations, time-to-market strategies, regulatory compliance (including MDR), technology challenges, and European reimbursement schemes. The audience will gain insights to navigate the DTx landscape efficiently and effectively. 

Norway, like the other Nordic countries, has a fundamentally good health and care service, and has a long journey with digitalization of health services and building ehealth infrastructure. Norway was an early adopter of national e-health solutions, and solutions like our national health portal, e-prescription and summary care record are widely used, both by healthcare personnel and citizens. Traditionally Norway has been promoting and working according to international standards and we have a long history of collecting data for secondary usage.

What role can entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and startups play in the future of healthcare? How can we promote collaboration? Panel discussion och mingle.
Square One Stockholm is a network that connects people who want to transform healthcare through innovation. https://www.linkedin.com/company/square-one-network/

This study examines the availability of information on welfare technologies or people living with dementia in Sweden. We conducted a scoping review of 21 counties and 290 municipalities to assess the degree of information provided on welfare technologies. 

We share our experiences and suggestions from translating the ContSys, i.e., ISO 13940:2015 System of Concepts to Support Continuity of Care. All chapters were translated into Estonian and published as a national standard in February 2023.

In this presentation, we will compare patients who have received mental healthcare's experiences of having online record access (ORA) between Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Estonia. Psychiatric records online are offered to patients in all four countries, and provide the same functionality and similar psychiatry information. The results presented in this talk are based on the NORDeHEALTH 2022 Patient survey consisting of 45 questions, including demographic variables and questions related to users' experiences with ORA. We will focus on the questions concerning positive experiences (benefits), negative experiences (errors, omissions, offence), and breaches of security and privacy.

An exciting lecture where we delve into the current hype surrounding ChatGPT and large language models. Are they truly the holy grail in healthcare, coming sooner than we think, or are they just another tool in the toolbox? What do we need to be cautious about?

Dermatologists are uniquely trained and experienced in managing all aspects of skin health, making them invaluable healthcare providers for individuals seeking treatment for dermatological concerns. Their medical training is to "see" and "remember" dermatology pathologies. During their lifetime they see about 200 000 dermatology pathologies. In 2018 we trained a deep neural network on 55,364 smartphone images of dermatology pathologies in 8 hours and used the artificial intelligence model in a primary care setting. Referrals to a dermatologist could have been prevented in 34% of cases, in 60% of the cases the AI model helped the primary care physician diagnose correctly and 92% of the primary care physicians loved the AI decision support tool.

Sjukvården i Danmark är för närvarande under en enorm press. Inte bara patienten och kvaliteten på arbetet påverkas, utan även vårdpersonalen som läkare och sjuksköterskor. Det finns ett konstant tryck på att få mer arbete gjort på kortare tid, samtidigt som den höga kvaliteten bibehålls. Overläkare Michael Nielsen från Region Midtjylland kommer att förklara konceptet bakom att ompröva hur läkare och sjuksköterskor arbetar och fördelarna med att tillåta innovation från slutanvändarna av automation.

Germany is Sweden’s most important trade partner. With its 84 million inhabitants, Germany provides wide reaching business potentials, not least within healthcare and specifically e-health. It is hence not surprising that this business area is a part of our two countries’ official innovation partnership, and that more and more Swedish companies have their sight set on Germany.During this ”German hour”, we will provide you with insights into the prerequisites of the German market, Germany’s new e-health strategy as well as the ongoing work with the so called DiGas (digital health apps). Furthermore, we present you with the opportunity to listen to an innovative Swedish e-health company that has taken its first steps into the German market and gladly shares their experiences with you.A warm willkommen to Germany!
The German market: prerequisites and structure, trends and potentialNinni Löwgren Tischer, Head of Division Market Entry & Business Development, German-Swedish Chamber of Commerce (AHK Schweden)The German e-health strategy and its DiGa-system: how it works and what business opportunities it presents Swedish innovation companies Dr. Lars Hunze, Deputy Head of Department for gematik, telematic infrastructure and eHealth, German Federal Ministry for Health (BMG)Case: Experiences, insights and reflections from a Swedish company that has taken its first steps into the German marketAnders Murman, Co-founder and CEO, DeversifyQ&A and a summary from a German-Swedish perspective addressing the challenges, common denominators and possible cooperationsNinni Löwgren Tischer, Head of Division Market Entry & Business Development, German-Swedish Chamber of Commerce (AHK Schweden)

Discover the future of healthcare through the lens of artificial intelligence. In this presentation, we delve into two major AI approaches: tabular and generative. We'll guide you through a complete solution, from sourcing data to module creation and validation, with the goal of delivering actionable insights for streamlined workflows. Learn how our services can accelerate your journey to value in healthcare AI.

Currently, an individual’s opportunities for privacy protection are limited by their digital skills and external factors such as illness, residence, and socio-economic status. Technological development in the field is happening very quickly, but coordination and common platforms are needed to increase accessibility. The HEIDA project have developed software examples using homomorphic encryption for end-to-end privacy protection. The technology enables processing of encrypted data and increase the individual’s opportunities for privacy protection in digital health, which can be of interest to health care decision makers and IT professionals.

A patient perspective on the benefits of having health data freely accessible.

EIT Health organised a series of 11 roundtable discussions across Europe, bringing together experts and stakeholders from across the public health, healthcare, and health data ecosystems. The presentation will summarize the key recommendations and findings on a European level, presenting results from the EIT Health Think Tank report launched Spring 2024. 

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve the efficiency and safety of medical history-taking and triage in primary care. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the practical implementation of AI systems for these purposes. This study explores healthcare leaders’ experiences of barriers to implementing an AI system for automated history-taking and triage in primary care, and the actions they took to overcome these barriers.

By combining the resources from both health - and social care, there are several benefits in both quality of care and efficiency. Johan will present the experience from the Dutch market, where this is a more common approach than in Sweden.

Welcome to this workshop where you will advance your knowledge of internationalization strategies and explore the potential of information-driven technologies in shaping the future of healthcare integration. We look forward to meeting managers, technology developers from different industries operating in healthcare, and policymakers interested in the topic of integrated healthcare. Participants can anticipate deriving significant benefits from this collaboration, gaining valuable insights and knowledge to enhance their professional pursuits.
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