Informatics Testbed for Future Healthcare (ITH)
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| Coordinator | Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset - Utveckling och Innovation, Solna |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 5 700 000 |
| Project duration | August 2013 - October 2016 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
The idea of the ITH-project was to make data available from the thousands of IT-systems used in healthcare, to build new innovative digital solutions for clinical decision-support. It however soon became evident that neither the platforms, nor the organizational structures that were in place were mature enough. The project has instead been characterized by an exploration of a reference architecture for the future of healthcare as well as design of structures, processes and relational mechanisms for true Triple Helix collaboration.
Expected results and effects
The ITH-project has resulted in empirical and theoretical based knowledge on digital platform capability and organizational innovativeness. These two capabilites must be integrated if digitization beyond documentation and communication should be possible. The ITH-project has thus created knowledge that can be used to establish innovation arenas which can support the healthcare digitization process. To make the knowledge available, a book of innovationstories, analysis and conclusions has been authored by key members of the project.
Planned approach and implementation
The structure has been characterized by practice research through combining design research and action research. Four ´proof of concepts´ have been implemented in the technical environment (MT/IT-integration, semantic conversion, processorkestrering, as well as extraction of data for decision-support). 25 innovation stories are written and analyzed. The results are presented in five sub-reports under the title of Clinical Digital Innovation. The source code is also published as open source.