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Introduction to Nordic track - By clinicians, for clinicians

Welcome to a networking event organized by Business Finland, Viexpo and the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare for healthcare professionals from the public and private sector. This is an excellent opportunity to discuss innovation in smart ageing and care and explore collaboration opportunities with different stakeholders. Light food and beverages will be served.
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Most Nordic countries have created their own set of FHIR base profiles. There has not been harmonization between these efforts, rather each country has had their own internal process. However, harmonizing the base profiles would be really useful. A harmonized content format across the Nordic countries would allow a FHIR app developed in one country to be used in another without major modifications. It would also simplify sharing health data across borders.A new initiative is being launched to harmonize the FHIR base profiles across the Nordic countries.

Third party apps extend the capabilities of electronic health record systems by offering additional capabilities and features, streamlining processes in specific therapeutic areas, bringing in patient generated health data, and providing advanced analytics and AI functionalities to get more benefits out of the data in the system.The HL7 FHIR specification is an enabler for this. This showcase presents dozens of FHIR apps connected to dozens of FHIR capable platforms.

NORDeHEALTH: Usability of national patient portals in Finland, Estonia, Norway, and SwedenNordic countries have been forerunners while having patient portals already for a decade. However, it is still important to improve usability for getting more benefits and also to help other countries develop their eHealth services. There hasn’t been a similar international comparison as we have now with our international patient survey. We’ll share international and local benefits and challenges regarding the usability of national patient portals in Finland, Estonia, Norway, and Sweden.

In this session, we describe the methodology for the NORDeHEALTH 2022 Patient Survey and present an overview of the data collected in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Estonia, respectively. 

NORDeHEALTH: Patients' Input to Electronic Health Record – Opportunities and Challenges in EstoniaYou will get an overview of how the system of patients’ online health record works in Estonia today. We will take you through the opportunities, but also challenges for the future and give an insight of how we plan to overcome those. As more and more emphasize are put on person-centeredness in healthcare, but also in order to fully achieve the potential benefits of digitalization, it is necessary to further explore how could electronic health records shift from solely being a documentation tool for health professionals to rather a tool for secure collaboration and communication with patients and family caregivers. We will introduce you our co-designing journey on patient-generated health data on blood pressure and blood glycose levels.

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.

Norge, Danmark, Finland och Sverige arbetar alla med lösningar för att få till nationella gemensamma läkemedelslistor. Det finns stora likheter mellan länderna när det gäller digital informationshantering kring läkemedel. Alla har sedan många år e-recept och en central lagringsplats för dessa. Det finns dock betydande skillnader mellan de system som används eller är på väg att implementeras i de fyra länderna. I presentationen ger forskare från de olika länderna en översikt av nuläget i de fyra länderna, samt delar med sig av sina reflektioner kring utmaningar. Presentationen görs på engelska.
Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden are all working on solutions to achieve national common drug lists. There are great similarities between the countries when it comes to digital information management around medicines. For many years, everyone has had e-prescriptions and a central storage location for these. However, there are significant differences between the systems in use or about to be implemented in the four countries. In the presentation, researchers from the various countries give an overview of the current situation in the four countries, as well as share their reflections on challenges. The presentation is held in English.

This session will focus on modelling collaborations and co-creation processes for digital health and educational services that municipalities within socialized healthcare and education systems are tasked to develop and provide.