Aalborg and Høje Taastrup municipalities & Liva Healthcare
RETHINKING PREVENTATIVE HEALTHCARE
Currently, 470,000 people in Denmark live with cardiovascular diseases, 270,000 have diabetes, and about 600,000 over the age of 15 are severely overweight.
Today, many municipalities offer only physical disease prevention courses, which are time-consuming for healthcare staff and difficult for citizens to fit into their daily lives.
There's a need to rethink the preventive effort, and Aalborg and Høje-Taastrup municipalities have chosen to do so by collaborating with Liva Healthcare and implementing their solution.
Liva is a digital tool that combines professional support with the flexibility of digital technology. Through personalized health programs and app-based coaching, Liva offers an alternative to traditional prevention counseling – while also addressing the shortage of healthcare staff.
The implementation of Liva in the collaborating municipalities shows positive and noticeable results for both citizens and healthcare staff – especially in working with vulnerable groups.
This award celebrates their exceptional efforts in succeeding with implementing new health tech. Their innovative project has significantly empowered citizens in the prevention of lifestyle diseases through a seamless integration of digital tools and expert support. The collaboration between the municipalities and Liva Healthcare exemplifies how technology can transform public health management.
These partnerships are recognised for their outstanding efforts at bridging the gap between healthcare and health tech.
North Zealand Hospital, Diagnostic Imaging Department & NordInsight
AN EXEMPLARY PROCESS FROM BOTH PERSPECTIVES
The Diagnostic Imaging Department at North Zealand Hospital has been involved in the development of NordInsight all the way from its inception to final implementation and has now seen the solution spread to other hospitals.
The journey begins with a unique problem that had not been solved in the healthcare system before.
According to NordInsight, one out of five patients undergoing an MRI scan has an implant, which can have significant consequences in the advanced scanner, if information about the implant is not readily available. This currently creates time-consuming problems for both healthcare staff and patients.
NordInsight has found a solution to this problem: their web-based platform allows radiographers and radiologists to find MRI safety guidelines for implants in minutes.
This ensures greater certainty for the staff, allowing them to improve the quality of their work with less time spent, and simultaneously ensures the best treatment for patients – reducing cancellations.
Odense University Hospital, Bronchoscopy section & O2matic
EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF SCALABILITY
The collaboration between O2matic and the Bronchoscopy section at Odense University Hospital is an excellent example of how well-known and already tested technologies can be adjusted and used more broadly – thus ensuring constant progress in the healthcare system.
O2matic is a medical device for automated and optimized oxygen therapy, functioning by adjusting oxygen supply based on continuous measurement.
Chief Physician Stefan Møller Luef saw a need to use this type of technology and based on this need the O2matic solution was implemented for use with bronchoscopy patients.
O2matic is a solution that can easily be scaled across the country, allowing even more patients to receive the same high quality of care – and more nurses to have their workload eased.
The Hermit is the nickname for our yearly Health Tech Implementation Award. An impactful award that recognizes successful implementations of health tech solutions.
You can nominate yourself or your colleagues in the ecosystem to speak loud and proud of the work that has been done implementing a health tech solution, and we will make sure you are heard.
Why is it called "The Hermit"?
The health tech startup ecosystem needs places for innovative ideas to be embraced and protected early on within the healthcare system. Just like a hermit crab’s shell, the first place that implements a health tech solution has to be aware that they will be outgrown at one point in time. The project they took in will look for another home that is bigger. They will scale. But to start, they do need the catalysts willing to invest in them early on. So, with the Hermit we want to celebrate the partnerships between these healthcare catalysts and the startups with sky-high ambitions and inspire more implementation and impact.
- Line Rasmussen
- Project Coordinator
