Competitive Health Services project aims to find ways to enhance the provision and accessibility of health services in the sparsely populated regions of Europe by developing and implementing innovative eHealth solutions and promoting transfer of the best eHealth practises across the Northern Periphery. More...

"Competitive Health Services" project aims to find ways to enhance the provision and accessibility of health services in the sparsely populated regions of Europe by developing and implementing innovative eHealth solutions and promoting transfer of the best eHealth practises across the Northern Periphery. 

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Mapping and identification European best practices and innovative eHealth solutions which can be transferred, further developed and integrated into a health care system elsewhere in the partner regions Assessing the likelihood of adoption of eHealth innovations using a whole system approach Piloting new eHealth services in the Northern Periphery... More...

• Mapping and identification European best practices and innovative eHealth solutions which can be transferred, further developed and integrated into a health care system elsewhere in the partner regions
• Assessing the likelihood of adoption of eHealth innovations using a whole system approach
• Piloting new eHealth services in the Northern Periphery
• Focus on new eHealth service concepts and solutions for primary health care, chronic conditions and remote specialist services
• Utilization of an implementation model which can replicated elsewhere in the Northern Periphery and other peripheral areas of Europe

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A summary report of the mapping of eHealth services entitled A Portfolio of eHealth Applications in European Sparsely Populated Regions. Piloting of new eHealth services in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Scotland. Remote monitoring of physiological parametrs will be piloted in Finland and Norway, a mobile eye screening unit in Sweden, tele-dialysis i... More...

A summary report of the mapping of eHealth services entitled "A Portfolio of eHealth Applications in European Sparsely Populated Regions".

Piloting of new eHealth services in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Scotland. Remote monitoring of physiological parametrs will be piloted in Finland and Norway, a mobile eye screening unit in Sweden, tele-dialysis in Scotland, remote speech therapy in Finland and possibly in Scotland and a remote wound clinic in Finland.

Publication of our implementation model as a report.

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Publications The project has published the mapping results from Work Package 2 as a report Portfolio of eHealth applications. The report describes the context and development of e-Health innovations in the northern parts of Finland, Scotland, Sweden and Norway. The report aims at identifying some of the most important aspects of the health care se... More...

Publications

The project has published the mapping results from Work Package 2 as a report "Portfolio of eHealth applications". The report describes the context and development of e-Health innovations in the northern parts of Finland, Scotland, Sweden and Norway. The report aims at identifying some of the most important aspects of the health care sector infrastucture that influence the introduction of eHealth innovations. It also describes the most prominent eHealth services and initiatives which are currently being used in these countries. 

The project has published eNewsletters and brochures which describe project progress. These can be downloaded from the project website.

The project will be featured in the European Commission's book on regional policy entitled "Investing in our regions, investing in the future".

Developing new eHealth services

Based on our mapping exercise,we have selected the new eHealth services which will be piloted in Finland, Scotland, Sweden and Norway.

In Finland, piloting of a portable bag which allows remote monitoring of biosignals is underway. A remote wound clinic and remote speech therapy services have been established and are ready to use.

In Norway, piloting of the portable bag for remote monitoring of biosignals will start soon.

Piloting of tele-dialysis will start soon in Scotland.

In Sweden, piloting of the mobile eye screening unit will take place in spring 2010.

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