Sessions

The Nordic region is a strong market for digital health, due to the advanced healthcare systems, technological infrastructure and culture of innovation. With a focus on innovation, prevention, precision medicine and a strong research ecosystem, the Nordics offer fertile ground for digital health solutions to improve healthcare delivery, empower patients, and address the growing burden of chronic diseases. This session is a great opportunity to get to know the Nordic healthcare systems and their possibilities, challenges and why the Nordic market is a great fit for you!

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

Mental health problems are one of the main causes of sick leave.More than 50% will be diagnosed with a mental illness or disorder at some point in their lifetime.Only 1 in 8 adults with a mental health problem are currently getting any kind of treatment.This session explores the dynamic landscape of mental health technology, featuring perspectives from both Sweden and the USA. This unique opportunity will facilitate a cross-cultural exchange of innovative ideas and approaches in the realm of mental health tech. By bringing together experts from these two nations, we aim to gain valuable insights into the diverse strategies employed to address mental health challenges. This session promises to be a rich and collaborative exploration, fostering a deeper understanding of the global efforts to leverage technology for mental well-being.

This project addresses the challenges associated with complex surgeries and extensive patient care tasks, utilizing a digital, AI-enhanced virtual companion. The aim is to empower patients in self-management by guiding them through their care path, providing access to health information, monitoring vital signs, ensuring appointment adherence, and facilitating comprehension of medical documents. The introduction of a real AI healthcare professional further enhances patient engagement, offering personalized support based on individual needs. 

This presentation highlights connected mental health interventions, with a focus on biofeedback-based interventions, designed to facilitate self-management of individuals' mental health.

At A great pitch@vitalis, the most innovative Healthtech companies will showcase new digital solutions in healthcare. Attendees can listen to short pitches where 10 companies present their innovations, followed by questions from a distinguished panel. We welcome you to join us for this engaging event with high energy and excitement!

CareMatrix is an innovative project addressing the challenges of multimorbidity in aging populations, impacting over 50 million Europeans. It advocates a shift from traditional, diagnosis-specific healthcare towards an integrated, patient-centered approach. Focusing on interoperability of digital health systems, CareMatrix leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance care quality and efficiency. The initiative, supported by Horizon 2020, involves key partners developing the INCA Solution - a digital platform for coordinated care management. INCA integrates patient data, supports shared care plans, and features a multidisciplinary approach, placing patients at the heart of healthcare. 

Artificial intelligence-based (AI-based) language analysis is undergoing a “paradigm shift” initiated by new machine learning models, large language models, leading to unprecedented accuracies over most computerized language processing tasks such as web search, automatic machine translation, and automatic question answering. The success of the large language models is mostly attributed to their capability to numerically represent words in their context, long a weakness of popular psychological research techniques that use “bag-of-words” or word count approaches. Large language models can enable psychological language analysis to quantify the meaning behind words and human language in its larger context and thus capture truer psychological states and traits of the person behind the words. We discuss evidence showing that AI's paradigm shift to large language models is the missing piece for a parallel transformation in mental health assessment from the strong reliance on rating scale responses to more accurate, fine-grained, and ecologically valid assessments by fully leveraging patients’ own descriptions. We believe that this is an essential step in a more data-driven healthcare. 

The landscape of healthcare is rapidly evolving, with patient safety and the efficiency of patient monitoring gaining increased importance. Traditional spot-based patient surveillance methods have notable limitations, and there is substantial documentation on the benefits of more continuous monitoring approaches. Vitalthings, a Norwegian health technology company, is at the forefront of this evolution, developing contactless monitoring solutions that significantly enhance patient safety, operational efficiency, and overall cost-effectiveness. Dr. Thu will elaborate on how the continuous data harvested by this system serves as a foundation for future research and the development of AI models. This shift towards more proactive healthcare modalities, empowered by enhanced patient and staff safety, paves the way for the integration of AI into predictive medicine.

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)

Staff welfare has a profound impact on emergency services' abilities to meet targets, deliver appropriate levels of care and implement long-term strategies. Poor staff morale and high employee turnover are disruptive, expensive and result in sub-optimal service provision. As such, more organisations are turning to advanced modelling solutions to better balance operational performance and employee well-being. This presentation draws on first-hand experience from the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust (WAST) and details how data-driven modelling software enables the organisation to implement effective changes that prioritise employee welfare, respect operational targets and empower the team to do more with less.

Innovativa digitala lösningar blir alltfler och finns inom de flesta sjukdomsområden. Men hur kan pharma och tech-industrin (PharmaTech) samarbeta med sjukvården för att påskynda en jämlik introduktion?

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?

Who winns the Healthtech Award 2024? Welcome to the award ceremony where the winner will be presented! More information to follow

The presentation "Medicine of the future: How and who is going to treat us?" explores the key drivers shaping the future of healthcare, from current trends to long-term factors like climate change and sustainability. Utilizing expert opinions, the study provides insights into the evolution of medicine in the short, medium, and long term, examining the role of well-being technologies, data-informed personalization, and more.

AI has been hailed as one of the instrumental changes that can help healthcare systems tackle current and future challenges. But to what extent can AI help? Milan Shah, NHS transformation specialist, talks you through a study that was conducted on a Swedish primary care health center to assess the impact of AI-enabled triage on labour productivity.

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.

What role can entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and startups play in the future of healthcare? How can we promote collaboration? Panel discussion och mingle.
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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?