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Collaboration on healthcare practices impressed European network
Healthcare systems need to create new conditions that motivate staff to stay and deliver quality care and meet patients’ needs both now and in the future. This was the main message when WHO Europe and the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare visited Halmstad last week. The agenda focused on innovation, new thinking, and expanded collaborations. Several researchers from Halmstad University presented their research during the meeting.
Data can become knowledge and lead to change.
Decision aid for heart failure and mental illness
Within the research profile CAISR Health, several different projects are conducted – all with the aim of developing and implementing information driven care.
“In our research, we combine data from healthcare with data from, for example, smartwatches and sensors. Using information driven care, it is possible to act more proactive and health preventative. One of our projects aims to predict which young adults risk being affected by mental illness in order to be able to offer these individuals support at an early stage. Another project focuses on wound care while a third project offers decision aid for doctors when they are discharging heart failure patients”, says Farzaneh Etminani, Assistant Professor at Halmstad University.
Markus Lingman is Chief Physician and Strategist at Region Halland and a part of CAISR Health:
“Information driven care is about delivering fact based and individual focused precision care. Information driven care decreases the fragmentation since it combines different parts of healthcare and creates a unit. This lowers the risk for over- or under-treatment which is good for both the individual and the taxpayers”, says Markus Lingman and continues:
“A close collaboration between academia, the business sector and the region within CAISR Health makes it possible to quickly transfer knew research knowledge to real patient value in the form of longer life, increased health and an increased trust in health care. AI is also an important tool to enable equal care.”
Jens Nygren, Farzaneh Etminani, Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson, Mattias Ohlsson, Lena-Karin Erlandsson, Markus Lingman, Petra Svedberg and Magnus Clarin are all part of CAISR Health.
Text: Louise Wandel and Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson
Translation: Linnéa Andersson
Photo, collage and illustration: Dan Bergmark
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The research profile CAISR Health is funded by the Knowledge Foundation. The abbreviation CAISR stands for Center for Applied Intelligent Systems Research which is a research center at Halmstad University that is strongly connected to the profile. CAISR Health is also connected to the profile area Health Innovation at Halmstad University as well as Halland's innovation centre for information driven care, Leap for Life, and the industrial research centre for data driven healthcare, Health Data Centre. CAISR Health gathers researcher from two research environments at Halmstad University, Embedded and Intelligent Systems (EIS) and Center for Research on Welfare, Health and Sport (CVHI).
Center for Applied Intelligent Systems Research, CAISR, is a research and education center for AI at Halmstad University. CAISR has two main application areas – information driven care and intelligent vehicles & predictive maintenance.
Health Innovation at Halmstad University is an interdisciplinary education and research profile area. It is one of two profile areas at Halmstad University.
Leap for Life is Halland’s collaborative effort within information driven care. It is an innovation centre for Region Halland, Halmstad University, all municipalities in Halland and the business sector.
Leap for Life
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Health Data Centre, HDC, is an industrial research centre for data driven healthcare, established by Halmstad University, Region Halland and Hallandia V.
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