HAI-Proactive - Clinical IT-based system to prevent and treat healthcare associated infections

Important results from the project

The purpose of the initiation project was to perform a needs analysis, identify product requirements, build a constellation, and to seek continued funding for a long-term project designed to build an IT tool that can be used to proactively work with healthcare-associated infections. The project has identified the needs of different users (healthcare professionals, business partners, and academia nationally and internationally), built a constellation between academia, business partners and the public sector, and written a grant application to Vinnova.

Expected long term effects

The project grant from Vinnova has resulted in a project constellation where several Swedish hospitals and academic institutions work together with a number of IT companies to build an IT tool for detection of healthcare-associated infections. This will lead to a solution based on patient and healthcare needs, with the goal that the IT tool can be used both nationally and internationally.

Approach and implementation

The design of the project was: to examine the market and identify potential stakeholders and partners, gather all stakeholders to an open forum where the project idea was presented and discussed, defining the partners that will be involved in the project and work with them on a project plan to seek future funding. The above was carried out in workshops and meetings including international visits. More resources than planned was placed on needs assessment, resulting in a stronger concept in which the patient and the health care needs are central.