county council of blekinge – Design for Wellbeing

ExDin III – Expertnätverk i diagnostik | 2015-2017

Tobias Larsson — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:38:50 +0000

I takt med den åldrande befolkningen och de medicinska behandlingsmetoderna utvecklas ökar antalet personer som är multisjuka, vilket gör diagnostiken mer komplex och krävande. Projektet ska ta fram en modell för hur för samverkan mellan specialister i diagnostiska nätverk kan gå från projekt till ordinarie verksamhet. Samverkan sker mellan fem akademiska parter, tre landsting och två företag.

ExDIN III is the continuation of the ExDIN project into a phase C project in VINNOVA’s Challenge Driven Innovation theme Future healthcare.

Objective: Medical imaging is facing major challenges. The demographic and geographic structure needs to be addressed with new approaches and services. Digitalisation has been ongoing for over 10 years, but there is still great potential to be exploited in sharing capacity and expertise. This project focuses on this potential.

The project will analyze more effective forms of collaboration, working in networks. The issue is complex in nature as it spans over different health care providers, specialties and processes. It also covers a number of areas such as technology, patient safety, legal and regulatory requirements.

Making experts available to more than one care giver at a time, will result in benefits that we can assess today, but it will also create new structures and opportunities in medical imaging that can not be predicted.

The project results in a concept, tested in a pilot, within three major scenarios, access to capacity, peer nodes and multi-disciplinary teams. This will be available for healthcare to apply on various forms of medical imaging.

Today, there are no known initiatives that links technology with interaction, legal and commercial considerations. The potential is great, internationally, as medical imaging requires increasing resources for efficient and quality care.

The long term effects are:

Higher and more consistent level of diagnostics, regardless of location
Faster implementation of new evidence based medicine
Increased opportunities for high-quality diagnostics in smaller communities
Efficiency and reduced costs
Less traveling for patients and specialists

BTH staff: Prof Tobias Larsson (PDRL), Massimo Panarotto (PDRL)

Time span: 2015-2017

Funding: 19 MSEK (10 MSEK VINNOVA Challenge Driven Innovation, 9 MSEK partners), Phase B was 20 msek

Partners:

FI-STAR – Future Internet Social and Technological Alignment Research | 2013-2015

Tobias Larsson — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:36:55 +0000

Objective

FI-STAR will establish early trials in the Health Care domain building on Future Internet (FI) technology leveraging on the outcomes of FI-PPP Phase 1.

It will become self-sufficient after the end of the project and will continue on a sustainable business model by several partners. In order to meet the requirements of a global Health industry FI-STAR will use a fundamentally different, reverse cloud approach that is.

It will bring the software to the data, rather than bringing the data to the software. FI-STAR will create a robust framework based of the software to data paradigm.

A sustainable value chain following the life cycle of the Generic Enablers (GEs) will enable FI-STAR to grow beyond the lifetime of the project. FI-STAR will build a vertical community in order to create a sustainable ecosystem for all user groups in the global Health care and adjacent markets based on FI-PPP specifications.

FI-STAR will deploy and execute 7 early trials across Europe, serving more than 4 million people. Through the trials FI-STAR will validate the FI-PPP core platform concept by using GEs to build its framework and will introduce ultra-light interactive applications for user functionality.

It will pro-actively engage with the FI-PPP to propose specifications and standards.FI-STAR will use the latest digital media technology for community building and will proactively prepare for Phase 3 through targeted elicitation of new partners using open calls.

Finally, FI-STAR will collaborate with other FI-PPP projects, through the mechanisms in place, by actively interacting with all necessary bodies. FI-STAR is a unique opportunity for implementing Future Internet Private-Public Partnership in the Health Care domain, by offering to the community standardised and certified software including a safe, secure and resilient platform, taking advantage of all Cloud Computing benefits and guaranteeing the protection of sensitive and personal data travelling in Public Clouds.

Project information

BTH staff: Prof Marcus Fiedler (COM, BTH project leader), Prof Tobias Larsson (ING/PDRL), Prof Johan Berglund (HAL), Asc Prof Samuel Fricker (COM), Mats Löfdahl (ING/PDRL), Shahryar Eivazzadeh (ING/PDRL/HAL), Asc Prof Peter Anderberg.

Time span: 2013-2015

Research publications

Thümmler, C., A., Keow Lim, I. Holanec, S. Fricker (2016). A Methodology to Assess Social Technological Alignment in the Health Domain, Elsevier, 2016. Vol. 37, nr 4, 232-239 s. DOI: 10.1016/j.irbm.2015.10.005
Eivazzadeh, S., P. Anderberg, T. Larsson, S. Fricker, J. Berglund (2016). Evaluating Health Information Systems Using Ontologies, JMIR Medical Informatics, ISSN 2291-9694, Vol. 4, nr 2, e20, DOI: 10.2196/medinform.5185
Fricker, S., K. Schneider, F. Fotrousi, C. Thuemmler (2016). Workshop Videos for Requirements Communication, Springer, 2016. Vol. 21, nr 4, 521-552 s.
Eivazzadeh, S. (2015). Health Information Systems Evaluation, Blekinge Institute of Technology Licentiate Dissertation Series, ISSN 1650-2140 ; 7.
Cousin, P., S. Fricker, D. Felmy, F. LeGall, M. Fiedler. (2014). Validation and Quality in FI-PPP e-Health Use Case, FI-STAR Project, 7th International Conference on Interoperability for enterprises systems and applications (I-ESA)

Related information

FI-STAR web

TAGS: applied health technologyblekinge institute of technology BTH county council of blekinge digital health european project fi-star Shahryar Eivazzadeh tobias larsson

Center for TeleMedicine – Sustainable products and services within e-health and tele medicine | 2010-2012

Tobias Larsson — Wed, 11 May 2011 19:26:11 +0000

PROJECT SUMMARY

The project will provide a cost-effective development of sustainable e-health related services and products. This should be done by various pilot project demonstrators to create realistic scenarios. Primarily this is done for the County Council of Blekinge but also other potential customers may be targeted. The project will create a technological-medical frontier area that can generate new business in Blekinge.

The focus of the project is

E-health pilots, based on feasibility studies and identified needs, in teleradiology, telepathology, care-in-home, and video communication 2.0;
Availability and resource problems and the effects of applying an e-health perspective
Interoperability of products and services between public and private actors
Clarification of the methodology and approach for the development and implementation of e-health activities.

Our goal is to create an e-health center anchored in Blekinge, which can operate also in other counties and with other potential customers. We want to develop healthcare operations and streamline existing processes through the creation of new innovative and sustainable solutions for products, services and related practices. The proposed pilots will primarily be teleradiology, telepathology, care-in-home and video communication. Also other disciplines such as laboratory medicine and dermatology will be able to be evaluated within the project.

The pilots that will be implemented within the project are all based on the already completed need studies and trials, and is rooted in the activities and parties involved. A priority scheme for pilots will be undertaken in conjunction with the project to take into account the current situation in the related project at the time.

A planned e-health center will

Providing a cost-effective e-health service for the County Council of Blekinge
Increase the attractiveness of medical experts to work in the County Council of Blekinge
Evaluate various products and services in a secure but “sharp” test environment with employees and patients in everyday medical work.
Give priority to work closely with those who will use the services and develop an approach that provides us with a growing expertise in Blekinge in the relevant areas
Enhance cooperation with other counties, and companies
Create a technologically and methodologically medical focus area of Blekinge
Generate new business in Blekinge, and through this increased export activity

In “Regionalt Tillväxtprogram 2008-2013” Region Blekinge describes “Health & IT” as a priority area profile and write: “It is important to support existing and establish new innovative environment where ideas can be commercialized and businesses evolve.”

In conclusion, this project has close and active links with the County Council of Blekinge, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Region Blekinge, and the for Blekinge established telecommunications industry.

PROJECT INFORMATION:

Type: Research and development
Keywords: E-health, product-service innovation, needfinding, wellbeing
Application area: Healthcare
Time frame: 2010-2012
Research unit: Blekinge Institute of Technology
Funding: 19 MSEK
Partners: Tillväxtverket, County Council of Blekinge, BTH, Telecom City

Contacts:

Tobias Larsson, Professor, BTH, tobias.larsson@bth.se.
Madelene Larsson, Interaction Designer, BTH. madelene.larsson@bth.se