Information drivenness in Halland
Region Halland is rated one of the best in the country for healthcare quality and accessibility and is also home to the concept of information-driven care.
Making a difference with information-driven care
Swedish healthcare is government-funded and universal meaning that it is available to all citizens via taxation, but also administratively decentralized. Medical services and healthcare systems are managed at the regional level, by 21 separate county councils across Sweden.
Region Halland, located on Sweden’s southwestern coast, is rated one of the best in the country for healthcare quality and accessibility, especially for an increasingly older population with accumulated chronic health conditions. Region Halland is also home to the concept of information-driven care.
What is information-driven care?
Information-driven care is an approach to health care that leverages the rapid integration of digital technology throughout society which enables preventive and precise actions. It uses data and state-of-the art analytics to create value across several disciplines and areas. It is used to provide the right care to the right person at the right time – as an example of precision medicine. Information-driven care encourages working closely with other institutions and organizations and across sectors spanning medicine, healthcare delivery, law, health economics, AI, IT, management and leadership. Trans-sectorial learning is a goal in itself.
It’s great that Sweden wants to showcase the work we do in Halland beyond the country’s borders. We have a lot to be proud of. Many healthcare providers face significant challenges today, and it’s important that we share the knowledge and capabilities we have built in Halland while also learning from others.
Markus Lingman, Strategist in hospital management at Halland Hospital, Region Halland
Region Halland’s ecosystem of healthcare innovation
Region Halland is found on the cutting edge of the Swedish public healthcare sector, where it creates new opportunities and challenges old paradigms through collaborations with universities, other healthcare providers and national authorities. This also enables bridging some of the decentralization and helps increase the speed of development in healthcare through alliances.
The healthcare systems and providers of tomorrow are challenged by a chronic disease burden, the silver tsunami and work force shortages and burnout. In order to work smarter and more aligned with coming challenges, Region Halland’s teams explore how to efficiently analyze its data collected from its array of IT systems including electronic health records. Working together with international researchers, methods that include using artificial intelligence are used to identify important actionable patterns in patient data.
Through its extensive digitalization, Region Halland can safely and continuously take the data collected at each healthcare visit and use it for the benefit of the patient. The Region Halland teams are exploring a variety of different methods and AI-techniques, including multimodal analysis, synthetic data generation, federated learning, and the use of large language models.
Healthcare innovation requires oversight and the data and systems of Region Halland are safe and secure. Public confidence and trust are vital to Region Hallands mission and commitment to its inhabitants, and great efforts are made to ensure that all technical, ethical, and legal standards are met.
Information-driven care has with time resulted in effects on the workforce, and at the organisational level. The adoption of information drivenness is highly influenced by the governance structure and facilitated by the relatively small size of the region and the close proximity to, and between, its decision-makers. The adoption also motivates and drives development towards reaping the benefits of an integrated care organisation.
The effects of information-driven care – an overall information drivenness, also outside the healthcare sector – will be demonstrated by presenting clinical and organizational cases where lives are saved, patient suffering reduced, healthcare costs cut, conventional boundaries challenged, and professional identities transformed in concordance with developments and adoption of facilitating technologies and ways of working.
Information drivenness and work force related approaches presented on September 24th 2024
at the Meeting of the WHO Europe Sub-regional Network for Northern Europe: Enhancing Health and Care Workforce Collaborations.
Title: Evolving Professional Roles in Tomorrow's Healthcare: Shifts in an Information-Driven Environment
Lena Petersson
Title: Digitalization in Home Healthcare - Balancing Innovation with Workforce Well-being
Sara Karnehed
Title: Promoting Sustainable Work-Life: First-Line Managers' Experiences in Healthcare Organizations
Ingrid Larsson and Anna Marzelius
Title: Accelerating Information Driven Care: The Impact of CAISR Health's co-production model with Academia, Industry, and Regional Partners
Jens Lundström
Title: Improved Wound Care Processes: A Multidisciplinary Research Collaboration
Jens Lundström and Ingrid Larsson
Title: AI in Healthcare: Navigating the Path to Responsible Innovation
Amira Soliman
Title: AI-Created Diagnostic Scores for Emergency Department Patients with Breathing Difficulties
Ellen Tolestam Heyman
Title: Strengthening research competences in Industrial and public healthcare sector through a National Research School in Health Innovation.
Lina Lundgren
Title: Heart Failure: From Data to Action
Miltiadis Triantafyllou
Title: An information-driven approach to improving unscheduled care in an integrated care system
Susanne Sävenfalk Persson
Title: Dashboards - data to generate insights on a daily basis
Per A. Andersson
Title: Automated Learnable Medical Assistans (ALMA)
Louise Pettersson and Magnus Garell
Follow the link below to listen to the talks from the Meeting of the WHO Europe Sub-regional Network for Northern Europe: Enhancing Health and Care Workforce Collaborations:
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