Events

November

Lunch seminar: Care journeys for young people with mental health issues – can AI help?

When: 4 November
Where: Stadsbiblioteket, Halmstad

Seminar with Lena Petersson, Senior Lecturer in Education at Halmstad University, and Katrin Häggström Westberg, Senior Lecturer in Nursing at Halmstad University.

Lunchföreläsn: Vårdresor för unga med psykisk ohälsa – kan AI hjälpa? (in Swedish)

Previous events

October

CAISR Health at the Innovation Conference

When: 21 october
Where: Halmstad University

How can academia, industry and the public sector work together to strengthen innovation and collaboration in Halland? On 21 October, Halmstad University and Region Halland welcome businesses, innovation-promoting actors, the public sector and researchers to the Innovation Conference 2025! This year’s theme is Bridges for Innovation.

The Innovation Conference

September

CAISR Health Kick-off

When: 10–11 September
Where: Halmstad University

The partners of CAISR Health were invited to a two-day event that focused on reviewing progress, strengthening collaboration, and shaping the next four years of research, innovation, and co-production. The programme featured project updates, partner presentations, workshops, and opportunities to explore future directions together.

June

Health Economy Seminar 3: Organisational consequences of digitalisation

When: 17 June
Where: Fullriggaren, Halland Hospital

The seminar was led by Torkel Strömsten, Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, and was co-organised by Region Halland and the implementation seminar series. During the seminar, participants discussed:

• How the public sector and health care are organised
• Digitalisation (or the digital fusion of information systems) and what it means to different professions
• How the new information landscape can influence how organisations within the public sector and health care are organised

May

Vitalis – the largest eHealth conference in Scandinavia

When: 19–22 May
Where: The Swedish Exhibition & Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden

Vitalis is a meeting point for everyone working strategically or operatively with business development and eHealth issues within healthcare and welfare.

See all of Halmstad University’s activities here. External link.

April

Health Economy Seminar 2: Precision medicine and healthcare

When: 24 April, 10.30–12.00
Where: Zoom (see link below)

The seminar was led by Torkel Strömsten, Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. During the seminar, participants discussed:

• The background of precision medicine and healthcare
• How the present control systems were often unfit to motivate the benefits of precision medicine
• What needed to be done to reap the benefits from precision medicine

March

The 4th CAISR Health Annual Meeting

When: 6–7 March
Where: Halmstad University

The members of CAISR Health are invited to the 4th annual meeting.

Health Economy Seminar 1: Calculations in the Swedish Health Care system – CPP vs PEC

When: 20 March, 10.30–12.00
Where: Zoom (see link below)

The seminar was led by Torkel Strömsten, Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. During the seminar, participants discussed:

• The differences between Cost Per Patient (CPP, or in Swedish KPP) and Patient Encounter Costing (PEC)
• CPP and the underlying assumptions and instructions in the CPP calculation that made comparisons between regions difficult
• PEC – its origins and how control needed to change in health organisations to make it work as intended