Empower the patients with knowledge for better health and cost effectiveness
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Karolinska institutet - Medical Management Centrum |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 9 505 000 |
| Project duration | August 2012 - September 2014 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Challenge-driven innovation - Phase 2 Collaboration |
Purpose and goal
- To improve individual health in life-long chronic conditions though increasing the patients´ knowledge of their own disease and thus individualize health interventions. We have designed novel e-health services together with users to deliver personal data from research to patients and care providers and piloted these in the clinical front-line while measuring the health outcomes for each patient. The informatics solutions for integration have been developed and designed to comply with laws and regulations. We propose business models for sustained growth of our services.
Results and expected effects
Patients have tested our e-health services together with their providers in clinical practice and seen how they can gain more knowledge of their own disease based on data also from research on their own biobank samples. Thus, patients can plan and individualize their own interventions - e.g. medications and lifestyle to optimize their own health outcomes and prevent deterioration. We have enabled a pre-commercial development in the next step where we will adapt our generic process and services to other chronic conditions and proposed business models to create sustainable growth.
Approach and implementation
The project has brought together patients, care providers and researchers with many experts to jointly develop an innovation that provides patients with individualized knowledge directly from research, thus enabling better and more effective treatment and individual health. The project successfully used Service Design tools and multi-stakeholder workshops to create the new care process and new e-health services that are simple to use, attractive and useful. Necessary steps were a legal and IT analysis, as well as developing business models to secure a sustainable growth.