Sessions

In the phase of growing pressures to improve both access and affordability of care, the obvious solution is to free up capacity by improving flow to reducing length of stay. Yet, despite significant efforts, hospitals around the world are struggling to achieve breakthrough results. The lecture presents a fresh perspective on how to solve this complex issue of in a simple manner. It tells the story of how hospitals have reached 10-20% reductions in length of stay within a matter of weeks, while being truly patient-centered and clinically led. How do we identify the typically small changes that drastically will improve patient flow through all pathways simultaneously?

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.

Across Europe the demand for resources in the Health sector is growing faster than the supply, and there is a growing consensus that Digital Therapeutics Apps with their ability to reach a wide part of the population at scale, and in a cost efficient way, is part of the solution.
But development of medical grade apps, that have clinical evidence and satisfy the strictest quality standards is expensive, and vendors need to know how they can be adopted and reimbursed by the healthcare system, before they develop and deploy solutions that can benefit the patients.
SelfBack is an example of one of the few medical grade apps with clinical evidence. SelfBack takes part in the EU harmonisation work of Health Technology Assessments and in this session SelfBack will share their experience from different European countries, and give an overview of how the Swedish/Nordic market access, reimbursement and regulations compares to the rest of Europe from a manufactures point of view.

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.

Successful AI deployment within healthcare relies on the trust and confidence of healthcare professionals.  Based on the findings of the NHS AI lab and Health Education England report on Healthcare workers’ confidence in AI, Dr Painter explores which key factors influence confidence in healthcare AI technologies.