Sessions

The presentation will introduce a Nordic research network in health and welfare technology (HWT). The research network has around 80 members from all the Nordic countries and aims to consolidate knowledge, research, higher education, and experiences in health and welfare technology with a user perspective. The purpose of the presentation is to inform about ongoing activities and to link more researchers to the network. The network also wants to be a contributor with knowledge about HWT for the authorities in the Nordic countries.

This presentation is about an important challenge in change management: how to motivate, move and activate people? Based on her scientific research and extensive consulting experience in healthcare, Marieke tells about the importance of social contagion and informal leadership when changing or transforming healthcare or implementing improvements and innovations. Get inspired and go home with new insights and tips. 

We present a study comparing two mediums that can be used to communicate with allophone patients: a speech-enabled phraselator (BabelDr) and telephone interpreting. 

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.

In order to unite Europe under a digital single market and increase mobility within Europe, the EU Commission has initiated the X-eHealth project with the aim to develop functional and technical specifications for new E-health services to exchange medical information in the areas of laboratory results, medical images, discharge reports and patient summary for rare diseases.Manne and Espen talks in detail about the X-eHealth project, its content and results and how the project's mission is connected to the European Health Data Space, EHDS.

This presentation will introduce the results of the joint Nordic PROTECT project (“Proactive health and welfare technology for Nordic users and societies”, 2021-2023) and discuss them with a future-oriented perspective. PROTECT has brought together a large group of Nordic researchers from several fields as well as stakeholders (altogether nearly 200 workshop participants from four countries). The new knowledge co-created in PROTECT contributes to understanding the specific contexts and life situations where proactive health and welfare technology (HWT) is expected to be increasingly applied in the Nordic countries. The new knowledge also encourages and enables further research on the topic. Sharing research-based knowledge about the similarities and differences in proactive HWT services, implementation, and policies – including challenges in proceeding from piloting to implementation – across the Nordic societies enables better overall understanding of the experiences and expectations of diverse users in the individual countries and in the region. This, in turn, will help improve policy interventions and innovations to enhance proactive and resilience-supporting HWT use and the quality of life and work of Nordic citizens and caregivers.

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 Health Data Guide is intended to provide an overview of managing health data effectively so that the goals of improving the health of individuals can be more easily realized. Part One should provide a brief overview of the health data area and insights into a series of typical hurdles to overcome and ditches to avoid. It should provide the newcomer to the area with sufficient orientation to facilitate the discussion with various experts and partners. The more detailed Part Two is under development.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can potentially contribute to solutions to some of the major challenges facing healthcare systems around the world. However, the development of new AI applications does not guarantee that they will be routinely used in clinical practice. It is well established in implementation and innovation research that the introduction of new technology is associated with various forms of obstacles and resistance. This contributes to delayed and variable application and a high risk of losing the potential value they can bring to the healthcare system in terms of quality, safety, accessibility and optimization. In this presentation, we provide an overview of state of the art regarding the implementation of AI applications in healthcare today. We also suggest ways forward, how to develop successful strategies for implementation and work structured with implementation processes.

How wearables will revolutionize eHealth.

EHDS - Status and negotiation process