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The project aims to further develop Agder as a region within e-health, based on an already exposed position nationally and internationally. This will lead to very good development conditions for e-health products and projects. Such an exposed position strengthens all parties involved:
The project will develop competence, create meeting places, establish basic infrastructure for integration and testing and create visibility of e-health locally, nationally, and internationally.
In this project, researchers will collaborate with Norwegian businesses to create a tool for effectively testing the ethical soundness of digital solutions. The project's goal is twofold: to design a method for ethical testing and to develop training programs so that the method can be learned by all those who develop technology for the Norwegian market.
The method will be tested in conjunction with a wide range of Norwegian businesses from the education, health and welfare, finance, and transportation sectors, including both large, medium-sized, and small enterprises from across the country. These businesses include NAV, DNB, Posten, Medsensio, and Hypatia Learning.
The project team consists of Sintef Digital (project owner), Østfold University College at the Faculty of Teacher Education and Languages, Norwegian Open AI Lab at NTNU, the Department of Informatics at UiO, the Center for e-health at UiA, as well as University College London and Imperial College London. Additionally, the research network Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium (NORA) and the innovation network Cluster for Applied AI/Smart Innovation Norway are central to the project, along with the Norwegian Council for Digital Ethics (NORDE).
Around 300 million African girls and women are at risk of the poverty related disease, Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS), and 400 million are at risk for cervical cancer. Most of these are in Sub-Saharan Africa. FGS may be mistaken for cervical cancer or a sexually transmitted infection, and treated accordingly. Women may have FGS lesions, have cryptogenic bloody or malodorous discharge, or pain, and, be at higher risk for HIV and Human papillomavirus (HPV).
FGS is best diagnosed by point-of-care visualisation of the shape and colour of the lesions. However, health professionals require several weeks of training where the disease is seen frequently, and often they need a colposcope to recognise FGS. Worldwide, there are only a handful of health professionals who are proficient in FGS diagnosis.
A multispectral highly innovative colposcope linked to a smartphone, designed by an SME for cervical cancer recognition, will be adapted and validated for FGS diagnosis in this proposal. In three countries with different FGS epidemiology and different practices for gynaecological investigations of women, we will conduct a clinical trial in the spirit of the EDCTP agenda, with the ultimate aim of a patent and local production. With lessons from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, an eLearning course will be designed and trialled. Equipment, consultations and training will be adapted to practical realities (cultures, unstable electricity/internet, poverty, vulnerability).
As recommended by the WHO and the "HPV faster approach", the diagnosis should be at the point-of-care. Management and data collection protocols will be designed in collaboration with the national health authorities in Southern Africa, the WHO and also in one European country. This is a thrust to promote clinical research and digitalisation for vulnerable populations. Hundreds of clinicians and scientists will receive training in FGS, clinical trials, and social sciences.
CoTecH is coordinated and led by USN and has a total of 28 partners from the healthcare industry, healthcare services, users, and research entities in the Viken and Vestfold and Telemark counties, as well as from other parts of the country, Sweden, and Ireland. The project aims to identify needs, develop, test, and implement digital healthcare services and health technology. The overarching goal is to build a regional, leading interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral collaboration in digital health and technology between the healthcare industry, healthcare services, and USN, which will have national significance and international recognition.
Project's main goal: Increase the competence of employees regarding coercion, self-determination, and diet in services for individuals with intellectual disabilities with the aim of promoting a healthier diet for individuals with intellectual disabilities receiving municipal services.
Project objectives:
Digitalization in the Nordic countries has largely covered all welfare areas; social service, public schools, and health care. A strong user-perspective has led to a focus on self-service solutions. However, as citizens engage in encounters with the welfare state through educational, health care and social services, it is increasingly clear that there are still needs related to digitalization that are unmet. For instance, citizens who struggle with social, cognitive or health related challenges may refrain from using the digital solutions put in place by the public authorities. Even though they may be able to use mobile commercial digital devices and services through social media etc., their agency as digital citizens remain partial as more or less extensive communicative support is required for them to access welfare services. These are the key issues that the project ‘Infrastructure for partially digital citizens: Supporting informal welfare work in the digitized state’ (SOS) sets out to investigate.
The project has a strong consortium of universities, public sector, and industry partners in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Its main ambition is to map informal welfare work in three welfare sectors across three Nordic countries and to propose and prototype socio-digital innovations that enable synergy between informal welfare work and requirements of public authorities.
Across the NSR many people are experiencing social isolation and/or loneliness. This is a multifaceted problem and finding a solution requires action from multiple agencies for its successful alleviation. The public sector is struggling to address such a complex problem. I2I will focus on innovation in service delivery (including utilising new technology, e.g. serious gaming, apps, chatbots, VR/AR) through bringing organisations together and co-creating solutions with the target groups.
Therefore, the overall objective in I2I is to enhance innovation in social service delivery to improve social inclusion and counteract loneliness in NSR communities and neighbourhoods.
The NSR regions involved will increase the capacity of public authorities to develop innovative services and provide them with new tools and solutions in order to improve social inclusion and tackle loneliness. It aims to do this by making existing services more integrated and improving cross-sector collaboration using a quadruple helix user-centred approach working with service-/co-design methods.
Transnational cooperation enhances both efficiency and promotes broader thinking to stimulate innovation. It provides the testing ground for innovative community-based interventions and tools, creating more effective services for citizens while raising awareness of the issue in the NSR and increasing the innovation capacity of the public sector in regions around the Northsea to deal with social isolation.
The inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the workplace is limited. It is challenging to find, secure and keep suitable jobs. The majority go directly on to disability income after finishing high school. The InnArbeid project investigates how to improve this transition from school and into a working life.
The aim is to develop services and technology that enable young people with intellectual disabilities to make use of their abilities in the workplace. InnArbeid will also facilitate the transition between high school and working life by assisting in developing and positioning their potential for work.
We have proposed an Action Design Research approach which includes user-need mapping, co-creation, evaluation and implementation through iterative processes whereby users participate in all the stages of development. The method and results will challenge current practices and regulations for education, employment, municipal services and NAV (The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration).
User involvement in every project phase will contribute to the innovation of appropriate and applicable solutions as well as providing an anchoring in the region, thus strengthening the possibilities for realization and further implementation. A business model will be developed for the realization of the innovations.
The municipalities in Agder were early to offer digital follow-up of patients with symptoms of Covid-19 infection from home. They expanded an existing solution that is in use for digital follow-up of residents with chronic illness. Patients with symptoms can feel safe at home and the burden on the health service can be reduced, and health personnel who are in quarantine can work from home.
The research project DIPAR will support the health service's evaluation of how this solution has worked for users. By involving both patients and healthcare professionals, we will also contribute to improvements and further development of solutions and services. The goal is to use the capabilities of digital tools to be prepared for the next wave of infection or pandemics. New types of patient-generated data and new sensor technologies coupled with artificial intelligence can contribute to less labor-intensive and more accurate monitoring of disease progression, which can be useful even when we do not have a pandemic situation.
TELMA is an innovation and research project with 6 partners: Kristiansand municipality, Farsund municipality and Risør municipality, Sørlandets hospital, UiA and Siemens Healthcare / Open Tele.
The project will contribute to the development of a telemedicine service for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, COPD and heart failure and for people with mental health problems. The project will develop algorithms and technical solutions for patients with complex disorders. Furthermore, research on and realization of gains will be carried out through the use of the Action Design Research method.
Patients, authorities, and professionals express a great need for a radical reorganization of health services for patients with long-term and complex needs. The 3P project will support the development of a safe comprehensive health and care service for this group of patients. The 3P project will form a knowledge base for transforming a profession-centered health system into a patient-centered system based on experiences from four pilots in Norway and Denmark.
InForCare is an EU project with 10 partners from 6 different countries in the North Sea region. The project's overall objective is to contribute to innovation in public health and care services by strengthening informal and voluntary care provision. In co-creation with users, methods will be developed to strengthen collaboration using existing and new technological solutions.
Living Lab is a research concept. The concept is based on a systematic approach with the user at the center that involves both research and innovation processes. The user must be an active participating actor, not only as an object of research, but also as a source of innovation and innovation.
The M4ALMO project will study functionality, service models and technology support for the digital alarm center of the future for receiving and following up alarms and alerts from various welfare technology solutions as well as telephone inquiries from home residents. The project will make an important contribution to the elderly care of the future by enabling a safe old age in one's own home and ensuring a knowledge platform for future regional pilots at emergency reception centers under national auspices.
The project has focused on patients with COPD and the goal has been to improve the safety of patients who have recently experienced a worsening of their condition. Through close follow-up at home after a hospital stay, the number of re-admissions was reduced. The telemedicine solution that has been used by the patients, developed by the Center for eHealth and Devoteam, has received very good coverage of the main project, especially due to good interoperability. Formal partners from Agder in United4Health are SSHF and UiA at the centre for eHealth. 27 municipalities have also been included in the Agder project.
The main goal of the project is to strengthen the opportunities for people over the age of 65 to participate actively in society and societal development, as well as to stay longer at work than they might otherwise want, using computers and ICT tools. 18 partners from six countries in the interregional Northsea cooperation have participated in the project.
This project proposal focuses on challenges in the coordination of health care services where there will be a need of closer co-operation between different health care levels and services between local communities. This will require new ways of sharing health related information, with high requirements to the privacy and security solutions. At the same time, new ICT solutions in the health care services needs to be easy to use, and should clearly demonstrate efficiency and usefulness to the users. With-in the eHealth Lab at the University of Agder, this project will result in building up a digital interface (demonstrator) for shared access to medical information, developed on multidisciplinary scientific research in close collaboration with community health care services in the Agder Region, end-users, and industrial partners.
Collaborative Point-of-Care Services Agder: Follow-up of COPD patients as part of the United 4 Health EU Project
Chronically ill patients needs close follow-up at home-based Point-of-care, where different health care organizations needs to have close collaboration with coordinated services. The present project seeks to develop telemedical solutions for communication between the patient, caregivers, primary health care and the hospital. The project is closely related to the EU-project "United4Health", where Sørlandet Hospital HF is supposed to follow up COPD patients for a period of time after hospital treatment. Bas ed on the Collaboration reform in Norway, such remote home care should be carried out in close collaboration between the primary health care service, the local doctor (GP), and the Specialist service. This requires establishing new organization of care te ams, with suitable technological solutions. Medical indicators should be developed, in order to evaluate the patients' actual condition based on a standardized triage, where the need for follow-up and escalations in treatment when needed are defined. Deci sions will be decentralized to local health care services, and supervised by the GP and/or specialist. This is assumed to give cost-effective treatment plans for large groups of chronically ill patients like CHF, COPD, and Diabetes etc. line with the prin ciples of Best Effective Care Level (in Norwegian: BEON). During the project period, important aspects of organizational, juridical and technology obstacles will be taken care of and new solutions and procedures will be evaluated in a clinical trial. Inte rnational aspects are incorporated, and the main results will be disseminated within EU-projects. The project will collect research data on benefits for patients, relatives, informal caregivers and healthcare professionals and also some data for cost-effe ctiveness analyses. This includes time used in daily follow-up with remote monitoring, changes in the patient's condition, number of acute interventions and measure of Quality of Life.
Trine Holm - Department of Health and Nursing Sciences
Title of thesis: Proxy ePROM in public health centers and school health services
Started i 2021 - planning for disputation in 2025
Main supervisor: Thomas Westergren, UiA
Co-supervisors: Elin Thygesen, Geir Inge Hausvik, UiA
Magnus R. Wanderås - Department of Health and Nursing Sciences
Title of thesis: Video consultation in general practice
Started in 2020 - planning for disputation in 2024
Main supervisor: Santiago Martinez, UiA
Co-supervisors: Elin Thygesen, UiA, Eirik Abildsnes, Kristiansand kommune/UiA
Katherine Brown - Department of Information Systems
Title of thesis: Digital infrastructures in immigrants healthcare networks in Norway
Started in 2021 - planning for dispuation in 2025
Main supervisor: Margunn Aanestad, UiA
Co-supervisor: Carl Erik Moe, UiA
Sarala Ghimire Subedi - Department of Information and Communication Technology
Title of theis: Augmented video consultation
Started in 2020 - planning for disputation in 2024
Main supervisor Martin Wulf Gerdes, UiA
Co-supervisor: Santiago Martinez, UiA , Gunnar Hartvigsen, UiA/UiT
Dragana Paparova - Department of Information Systems
Title of thesis: Data centric platforms and the governance of personal healthcare data in patient-centered care initiatives
Started in 2020 - planning for disputation in 2023
Main supervisor: Margunn Aanestad, UiA
Co-supervisor: Sara Hofmann, Marianne K. Bahus UiA
Henriette Hovland -Department of Health and Nursing Sciences
Title of thesis: Older adults, social inclusion, and digital technology
Started i 2020 - planning for disputation in 2024
Main supervisor: Elin Thygesen, UiA
Co-supervisor: Cecilie Karlsen, Kristin Haraldstad, UiA
Linda Sørensen - Department of Health and Nursing Sciences
Title of thesis: How can Humanoid Robots assist users with disabilities in activities of daily living? - A qualitative study on user needs, perceived usefulness, ease of use and acceptance.
Started in 2021 - planning for disputation in 2025
Main supervisor: Hege Mari Johnsen, UiA
Co-supervisors: Åshild Slettebø, Dag Thomas Sagen, UiA
Ida Victoria K. Pedersen - Department of Economics and Finance
Title of thesis: Birth outcomes and human capital
Started in 2022 - planning for disputation in 2025
Main supervisor: Eirin Mølland, UiA
Co-supervisor: Jonas Minet Kinge, FHI/UiA
Jishnu Das -Department of Information Systems
Title of thesis: Design of Decision Support for Clinical Decision Making
Started in 2022 - planning for disputation in 2025
Main supervisor: Geir Inge Hausvik, UiA
Co-supervisor: Carl Erik Moe, UiA
Automatic Generation of Personalized Recommendations in eCoaching
Benefits Management in Complex eHealth efforts
Cultural translation and feasibility testing of the Norwegian iCanCope with PainTM app
Challenges with large public ICT systems
Use of artificial intelligence to search the clinical narrative for information
Reablement - reducing need for health services
Telecare services to enable ageing in place
Mat til minsten (Food4toddlers),
Inter-municipal cooperation in health care services: coping with the wickedness?
Holistic System Design for Distributed National eHealth Services
Being-in-the-World” Teaching clinical reasoning skills to nursing students through a serious game
Listening to Teacher’s needs: Human-Centered Design for Mobile Technology in Higher Education
User-centred Design and Evaluation of Health Information Technology
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