Sessions

In many ways, Sweden was early in its abilities to share data between caregivers and regions. These abilities are mainly achieved through the infrastructure provided by the regions and municipalities infrastructure, which has entailed certain limitations on the national government´s ability to govern, prioritize and take responsibility for the national and international perspective. In recent years the government has increased its efforts, for instance through various assignments to governmental authorities such as the E-health agency.

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.

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.

Denmark aims at promoting coherence across sectors by means of a comprehensive national eHealth infrastructure. The infrastructure is continually built out to support the sharing of data in more and more areas. The backbone of the infrastructure is a National Service Platform.The presentation will give an overview of how the work with cross-sectoral digitalization in Denmark is undertaken, both in relation to the principles behind as well as the data being shared.

A conversation about what has worked well in our respective Nordic countries.If a neighbouring country wants to use these successes as inspiration, what advice would we get?What is the next step?Are the conditions very county-specific or are we more similar than we think?