Innovation in European healthcare – what can Sweden learn? - LIF

With the responsibility for administration of the
hospitals and regional development, the regions
are the most important actors in innovation
• Danish regions is the professional body for the 5 regions.
• The five Danish regions, have established their own innovation strategy, each region with their own focus
and goals within healthcare innovation.
• Danish regions safeguard the interests of the regions on a national and international level. Further it
manages the overall strategy for the regions and make sure that important knowledge acquired in one
region are passed on to the others. Two executive initiatives are:
The regions Health-IT
organisation (RSI)
•RSI engage in joint tender processes and procurement
of new IT-systems, coordinating and further
developing on the hospitals IT-systems and
developing new services, making it possible to share
data across the different sectors of the healthcare
system.
•Further the RSI has set up several goals for how ITsolutions
can be used in innovative solutions in the
future:
•Electronically boards in the bigger emergency
departments.
•Strategy on how telemedicine can be used as a
solution for optimizing the operation of the hospitals.
•Plan for IT-support of the preventive healthcare effort
for the outpatients.
Knowledge sharing in
the healthcare system
(ViS)
•As a result of ViS, their website allows
knowledge sharing in different networks. The
users can share their knowledge, ideas,
experience and get inspiration in professional
networks.
•There has been established knowledge and
idea-banks supporting the regions efforts in
spreading good ideas in the relation between
users, patients and relatives, easing the
distance between initial idea and innovative
product.
•Further the ViS unit work in method
development and organise courses for both
patients, relatives and healthcare
professionals.
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