The County Council's work with e-Health

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The County Council's work with e-Health

• Attractive living environments, good public
  health and strong economic growth

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The County Council's work with e-Health 2007-2009

• County Commissioner Agneta Granström chairs the
  AER working group on e-Health
• Needs of citizens, patients and relatives, care
  personnel, care providers and decisionmakers
• Effectiveness and user benefit in medical and
  social services

• Background
• Impetus for change in health- and medical care
• Challenges and opporunities
• Lisbon Strategy
• Regional development programme attractive living
  environments, good public health and strong
  economic growth
• Regional innovation systems
• Regional players in research, politics and
  business
• Telemedicine centre at LTU
• Position Norrbotten and create user benefits
• More strategic partners
• More international cooperation projects
• Development of new products and services
• Conscious long-term effort
• Work at policy level
• Project input
• Operational development in health and medical care

• Goals
• Facilitate use and development of ICT in medical
  and social services
• Give citizens and care personnel access to
  information that is easily available, reliable,
  evidence-based, effective, of uniform quality,
  and up-to-date
• Improve information supply between citizens and
  medical and social services

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Project resources

• SEK 2.8m annually for the period 2007-2009
  finances above all
• Process Manager (Maria Magdalena Holmgren)
  commissioned among other things to
• Coordinate the County Council's e-Health
  initiative.
• Give administrative support to the chair and the
  policy level.
• Coordinate ongoing work between the County
  Council and Luleå University of Technology (LTU).
• EU coordinator for the County Council's EU
  project (Kenneth Sjaunja), commissioned among
  other things to
• Monitor developments in the different EU
  programming areas
• Provide support in formulating EU project
  applications and administration.
• Translate operational needs into development
  projects that can be implemented with the help
  of support from the EU and other financiers.
• Project coordinator (P-O Egnell) commissioned to
  coordinate the County Council's own e-Health
  projects, among other things
• Distance-spanning consultation and treatment
  involving IT-based instruments.
• Improvement of cooperation and information flow
  between different care providers.
• More effective and accurate methods for needs
  analyses, identifying products and services in
  demand.
• Provision of care information and services for
  patients and citizens.

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Project organisation

• Principal Elisabeth Holmgren
• Project owner Kurt-Åke Hammarstedt, Regional
  Unit
• Steering group Kurt-Åke Hammarstedt (Chair),
  Ulla Isaksson, Medicine Division, Gunnar Persson,
  Health and Medical Care Unit and Bo Westerlund,
  Primary Care Division
• Project Leader Maria Magdalena Holmgren, Process
  Manager e-Health
• Project group Rolf Adolfsson, Adult Psychiatry
  Division, Susanne B. Andersson, Medicine
  Division, Per-Olof Egnell, Project Coordinator
  e-Health, Åke Hellström, Dental Division, Maria
  Magdalena Holmgren, Process Manager e-Health,
  Kristina Jonsson, County Technical Services,
  Irene Lundmark, County Technical Services,
  Birgitta Scott, Diagnostics Division, Kenneth
  Sjaunja, EU Coordinator, Veronica Sundström,
  Operation Specialities Division, Jonas
  Thörnqvist, Primary Care Division and Jeanette
  Öhgren, Information Unit
• Communications group Barbro Alatalo, Information
  Unit, Eivor Bryngelson, Attraktiv region, Cay
  Hedberg, Information Unit, Maria Magdalena
  Holmgren, Process Manager e-Health, Kenneth
  Sjaunja, EU Project Office, Åsa Snällfot,
  Regional Unit, and Lars Wallrup, Attraktiv Region
• County Council Executive Rapporteur Agneta
  Granström
• Reference group HLG, RUP-BG

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Strategic alliances

• FP7, The European Framework Programme for
  Research (SEK 500m 2007-2013)
• CIP, Framework Programme for Competition and
  Innovation (SEK 30m 2007-2013)
• Objective 2 and Objective 3
• Telemedicine centre at LTU

• Troms and National Centre for Telemedicine (NST)
  in Norway
• Ongoing cooperation with Canada
• LTU coordinator for project collaboration in the
  Arctic Council ICT group
• SERN collaboration with Italy