Programpunkter

In this lecture, Marc Farr and Jake Arnold-Forster (guests from the UK) talk through the application of SOPs, discuss how they are created and made available in healthcare clinics and enhancing them with digital technology, how this helps to scale up innovative ways of working in line organisation and what effects this has created. 

The focus of this track are approaches to ensure safe and meaningful utility of digital health. It starts with the regulatory perspective, is it a medical device? If so, what does the legislation require?Some solutions will be used directly by individuals without any link to the healthcare system, others will play an integrated role in the healthcare system.For those used either in health or social care, there is a need for methods to ensure the affordability and usefulness in the system to ensure the societal value.

As a free service you are invited to participate in a matchmaking event open to all delegates, presenters and exhibition participants. The aim of the event is to create win-win- situations and perhaps future collaborations between researchers, practitioners, patients and industry.The matchmaking is only available for conference delegates, investors and exhibitors.

How can we improve care and make it more equal through a better and more efficient use of health data? This session, organized by Novartis and EU project EDAH will cover perspectives from patients, caregivers, and regions.Future opportunities and challenges with an increased use of health data will be addressed as well as what message to bring to the ongoing policy work within EHDS from the different user’s perspective.

The need for new skills for doctors innovating for the future and why an entrepreneurial mindset could be part of the solution. 

The potential of quality health and wellness apps in addressing European healthcare challenges such as an ageing population and chronic diseases putting pressure on healthcare budgets, unequal quality and access to healthcare services and shortage of health professionals, is widely recognized. Yet consensus on what makes a quality health app has been lacking. Patients, citizens and healthcare professionals do not have the means to recognize the quality health apps. Authorities struggle to efficiently assess health apps and manufacturers are faced with a multitude of frameworks and difficulties to increase uptake and reimbursement. All of the above inspired the European Commission to commission CEN-ISO/TS 82304-2:2021 "Health and wellness apps - Quality and reliability".

G_NIUS, a one-stop shop to save time for digital health entrepreneur. A presentation of the services set up to help companies navigate the French digital health sector market. Since 2020, G_NIUS has been providing various tools to help project leaders find their way in the world of eHealth in France. Facilitator of innovation in eHealth, G-NUIS is the fruit of a collective effort by the ministerial eHealth delegation (DNS) and the Agence du Numérique en Santé (ANS).

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is at an early stage and research has shown difficulties with actual implementation in practice. Welcome to participate in an exciting workshop where you are introduced to a methodological and newly developed framework for supporting implementation processes in clinical practice.

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.

“The Nordic Welfare Model is not sustainable!”, they said, ”Too much focus on healthcare and too little on preventative care will break the system going forward. We need to get the citizens more involved, not only in the care process but also in preventative care. The question is just – how?”

We benchmark the influence of four types of noise annotated in the public dataset PTB-XL on the accuracy of a Deep Learning-based method for atrial fibrillation detection in 12-lead ECGs. For this we use the noise metadata provided by human experts as well as a quantitative signal-to-noise ratio for assigning a signal quality to each ECG and analyze the respective DL accuracy. We conclude that the issue of processing noisy electrocardiography data can be addressed successfully by Deep Learning methods.

The European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) project Health Data Sweden (HDS), initiated in January 2023, aims to support this development by creating a more effective access to services to regarding digitalisation of the health care system both regionally and nationally, through the use of health data. The HDS connects 17 partners from all over Sweden, who currently offer services in health data and related fields such as digital care and e-health, to various target groups and stakeholders. HDS will also connect with other EDIHs throughout Europe, to transfer knowledge and share best practices concerning the use of health data and related fields, in order to improve healthcare on the EU level.In this panel, we will present some of the main challenges and needs in the health data context identified by the partners behind EDIH-HDS, and discuss how the project will address these obstacles. The five main work packages (the focus of WP1 is primarily administrative) will provide the structure for the presentation. In order to engage the audience and stimulate feedback and discussion, the panel will contain interactive elements throughout.

Presentation of the six years of experience in using mixed reality applications in planning liver and heart surgery at Oslo University Hospital. Description of research, development and implementation of clinical applications from image data to surgical strategies in 3D. It was initiated by clinicians based on clinical challenges to be fully compatible with clinical reality. Efficient workflow, fully integrated with hospital infrastructures cloud/browser-based with no need for specialized workstations.Ample experience is derived from surgical planning sessions for colorectal liver cancers and structural heart diseases. Not only limited to the most complex surgical cases. In pediatric heart surgery, holographic visualization brings enhanced 3D anatomical understanding of complex heart defects. It provides insight that reduces the risk of damaging critical structures in the surgical area. Holographic information impacts surgical plans in about half of the tested cases.In liver cancer surgery, holographic visualization brings anatomical overview and improves spatial understanding of internal anatomical structures in relation to the tumour. This is important when planning intricate surgical paths within the liver. Additionally, it better utilizes already available preoperative data to be used in surgical planning as an adjunct to the standard of care.Industrial collaboration has been vital in the establishment of minimum viable products as well as in establishing a start-up. This paved a path towards regulatory approvals and the distribution of applications for clinical use outside our hospital. We will present published and unpublished results from our department - where we have failed and succeeded and what we have learned in the process.Finally, we will provide a glimpse of the future trend in the current project and what is coming next. 

In this talk a brief overview of cybersecurity challenges with integrated IT/OT medical devices will be provided, along with current best practices for addressing them and open issues. Realistic attack scenarios will be used as examples to discuss the possible impact of the attack; ease of detection; risk of cascade effects; assets likely to be affected; stakeholders involved; security measures to prevent such attacks; handling the incident.

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.