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.

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.

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.