HISS2024 – Health Innovation Summer School
Halmstad University invites doctoral students to the fifth Health Innovation Summer School (HISS2024) in Halmstad, Sweden, on August 19–23, 2024. This time, the focus is on information driven care.
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Artificial Intelligence, innovation and implementation – enhancing healthcare ecosystems through information driven care
Healthcare systems are complex and multifaceted. Digital technologies hold great potential for enhancing healthcare, empowering healthcare professionals, improving access and equity, and delivering better health outcomes.
This summer school aims to support doctoral students understand artificial intelligence’s (AI) potential to improve healthcare ecosystems. Topics covered will enable students to think strategically with multidisciplinary knowledge on information driven care, connecting the fields of AI and machine learning (ML), innovation and implementation.
At HISS, doctoral students will have the opportunity to discuss in lectures and creative workshops together with distinguished key note speakers and in-house researchers.
The summer school is part of the University's focus area Health Innovation and the research programme Information driven care (IDC).
“For me, this experience is fantastic. We have had the opportunity to share our ideas, expand our networks and work with people from different fields and backgrounds and ideas. And during the week, we had the chance to build something new and propose a new idea to solve a social challenge, says Luis Fernando Irgang.”
Luis Fernando Irgang, participant HISS 2019
Cross-disciplinary exchanges
Participating students come from multinational and cross-disciplinary backgrounds, creating a melting pot of competence and inspiration. This course offers a unique opportunity for you to be a part of creative and innovative processes. During the last day of the course you will present your interdisciplinary project work and listen to fellow students‘ perspectives as a final pitch.
HISS is a perfect way to extend your personal network and create international contacts. It might be the start of a fruitful relationship.
Is this for you?
We encourage doctoral students with a background in any of the following academic fields of AI/ML, innovation, health, medical and implementation sciences, and who are curious about the integration of these perspectives for the objective of enhancing information driven care to apply for this summer school at Halmstad University.
Come join other doctoral students in Halmstad next August for summer, sun and science!
Goals and key learning outcomes
Main goals
- You will explore the potential benefits and challenges for applying AI/ML solutions in healthcare ecosystems.
- You will understand systemic opportunities and barriers to technology innovation in healthcare ecosystems.
- You will be introduced to key stakeholders for information-driven clinical decision support systems.
- You will understand how AI/ML systems are implemented in healthcare to reach the anticipated benefits.
Perspectives and key learning outcomes
AI/ML
- You will get insights into various AI-based techniques impacting and improving upon traditional healthcare structures, including natural language processing, data analytics and ML.
- You will get an awareness of how AI-powered solutions can transform healthcare with opportunities including disease diagnosis and monitoring, clinical workflow augmentation and hospital optimisation.
Innovation
- You will get insights into how value is co-created, delivered, captured and scaled.
- You will get an awareness of how to apply different tools and theories for scaling business models in the context of AI/ML in healthcare.
Implementation
- You will get Insights into the complexity of AI implementation in healthcare practice.
- You will get an awareness of the concrete implementation strategies facilitating successful implementations of AI/ML.
Course Programme
Monday August 19
- Registration 12.30–13.00
- The HISS Opening by Professor Jens Nygren, Focus Area Leader for Health Innovation, Halmstad University
- Keynote, “Information driven care (IDC) research programme” by Professor Mattias Ohlsson, Halmstad University
- Keynote, “The power of interdisciplinarity” by Professor Petra Svedberg IDC Research Programme Director, Halmstad University
- Keynote, “Navigating Institutional Logics in a Health Innovation Ecosystem Context” by Senior Lecturer Hélène Laurell, Halmstad
University - Workshop: “Applying AI in Healthcare with different real-world use-cases” by Senior Lecturer Amira Soliman, Halmstad University
- Evening welcome dinner with social activity
Tuesday, August 20
- Keynote, “How are AI tools designed to meet clinical expectations”? by Associate Professor Helena Linge, Strategist at Region Halland
- Workshop: “What do we mean by information, knowledge, real-world evidence, what is useful data”? by Senior Lecturer Lena Petersson,
Halmstad University - Keynote, “AI and Ethics in Healthcare” by Professor Thomas Ploug, Halmstad University
- Interdisciplinary student groups’ work and mentorship time
Wednesday, August 21
- Keynote, “Potential of Generative AI in Healthcare” by MD, PhD David Sundemo, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg
- Keynote, “Commercializing and Adopting AI-based Healthcare Innovations – the UK Experience” by Professor James Barlow, Imperial College Business School/Visiting Professor Halmstad University
- Inspiration lectures from practice
- Keynote, “Market access strategies for digital health innovations” by Adjunct Senior Lecturer Patrik Hidefjäll, Halmstad University
- Interdisciplinary student groups’ work and mentorship time
Thursday, August 22
- Keynote, “What is implementation in Healthcare”? by Professor Per Nilsen, Halmstad University
- Keynote, “How to implement AI in healthcare: barriers and strategies” by Post-doctoral researcher, Monika Nair, Halmstad University
- Interdisciplinary student groups’ work and mentorship time
Friday, August 23
- Student groups’ presentations and interactive panel discussions
- Closing lunch 12–13
Practical information
- When fulfilling all required activities, the course represents 5 credits.
- The fee is 2,500 SEK per student (from Swedish authorities). SEK 3,125 (including VAT 625 SEK) for all other payments.
- The registration of the summer school is available via the registration form at this webpage.
- The last day of registration is on May 27, 2024.
- Number of participating students are limited to 25.
- The price includes tuition, welcome reception, lunches and “fika” during the course.
