Sessions

Every year, several million triages are performed in Sweden to evaluate and prioritize patients' medical needs. In the past, these assessments were conducted solely over the phone or at primary care centers, without any means of systematic evaluation. However, a groundbreaking shift is underway as Sweden digitizes its triage process, revolutionizing one of the most crucial processes in healthcare.Now, for the first time ever, patients' questions, responses, and advice can be analyzed systematically. The implications for patient safety and equity are profound, and it is essential to consider how this transformation affects vulnerable groups, such as the elderly and frail, who may not have access to digital tools. Join Jonathan Ilicki on a journey beyond the ordinary and gain unique insights into the pivotal role of triage in coordinating healthcare. Discover how digitization is transforming healthcare delivery in Sweden and shaping the future of medical care.

An introduction to openEHR for beginners. This is part 1 covering what openEHR is designed to do and why.Part 2 (in the afternoon) cover both technical and clinical modeling aspects of openEHR in more detail.

The TEHDAS Joint Action carried out country visits to map the state-of-play of national health data management systems and their preparedness to join a future EHDS for secondary use. The presentation will present the findings of 12 country visits carried out between December 2021 and December 2022, focusing on different themes (e.g., data sources, access procedures, data governance), with a focus on the overall preparedness and the needs and expectations of countries to be able to join the EHDS

Digital interventions can have beneficial effects on our health and prescribing digital therapies is not in the distant future - for use in institutions and at home. While the benefits are encouraging for patients, next-of-kin, healthcare personnel and institutions, we need a deeper understanding of the nature of digital interventions that are powered by sensors, algorithms and apps. The understanding should help us answer questions like how we verify the clinical benefits of the therapies or if health systems have the expertise, regulations, organisational roles and health economic arrangements in place to adopt digital therapies.This talk reports on some initiatives in Scandinavia and Germany that address the development, testing, regulation and procurement of digital interventions. As a backdrop, the talk uses discussions in the Health Data Innovation Council (https://healthdatainnovation.eu) to highlight different aspects of data-driven health interventions and the implications across the continuum of care (prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care), health technology life cycle (design, testing, commercialization and operations) and oversight (approval, certification and regulation).

The presentation will describe how the World Health Organization Region Europe (WHO EURO) came to select Sweden as its Demo Platform, and South Lapland and the Centre for Rural Medicine as the demo site for showing good practice of how to ensure access to health in remote areas with digital health tools, why Business Sweden initiated this collaboration with WHO, what the Demo Platform entails and how the next planned steps are strategic to Swedish digital health industry internationalisation.

An introduction to openEHR for beginners. This is part 2, covering Clinical modeling, Technical implementation, Querying, Tools and examples in more detail.

Nursing Organizations are expected to make contributions to Innovation. How do nursing organizations know how Innovation Ready they are? What should nursing organizations do to become more Innovation Ready? As contribution to the discussion around Nurse-Led Innovation, the Innovation Readiness Inventory is delivered to help answer these questions.During the presentation you will also meet Nursing Directors who will take you through how they use the tool and how it is connected to their work on how to establish Frontline Innovation as a part of their day to day operations.

With the fast progression in AI, its role in healthcare is bound to be ubiquitous in near future. However, creating AI software that is unbiased and trained ethically remains a challenge. In this session, we will evaluate different aspects of what it means for the AI to be biased and how we can evaluate it as a medical device software. Similarly, it is important to understand the fact that ethical AI is a two-way street. We will also look into how the society and the regulatory bodies should play a role for AI to be constructed in an ethical way. 

European Ethical Principles for Digital Health is an initiative of the French Presidency of the council of the European union. The legislative work on the European Health Data Space started under the French Presidency. It aims to give European citizens the guarantees of trust they are expecting for the processing of their health data. The sharing of health data can raise legitimate questions: clarifying these European Principles of Ethics for Digital Health will make it possible to go beyond the GDPR and to condition the choices of methods underlying digital health initiatives. This presentation will highlight important principles and how they are implemented in the member states. As well as the continuous work that needs to be done to ensure the trust from the European citizens.

Patient-accessible electronic health records (PAEHR) have the potential to empower patients, but their impact may vary between psychiatric and somatic patients due to unique sensitivities in medical notes. In Norway, all hospitals have implemented PAEHR since 2015. Despite ongoing debate, further research is needed on user experiences and perceptions in general health care, particularly psychiatry. In this lecture, we will explore the following topics from Norway’s perspective: 1) how the use of PAEHR differs between psychiatric and somatic patients, 2) the serious mistakes patients have perceived and their impact on each group, and 3) the implications for practice in the era of transparent EHR and new ways of thinking.