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 was featured in the European Commission's book on regional policy entitled "Investing in our regions, investing in the future" and in the Europian Commission magazine "Panorama".

The project has generated cosiderable public and media interest, for more please see the project website.

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, four services were piloted: a portable bag which allows remote monitoring of biosignals and personal health data, remote monitoring of cardiac patients, a remote wound clinic and remote speech therapy. Creation of sustainable remote consultation services is underway.

Teledialysis and remote speech therapy were piloted in Scotland. Teledialysis is now becoming normalised and part of routine service delivery.

In Sweden, a mobile eye screening unit was piloted in two phases.

In Norway, a service offering remote monitoring of biosignals was piloted.

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