The patient as an innovation leader in the welfare system

Important results from the project

In this project, we have taken the patient´s situation as a starting point and wanted to learn more about how they can act as innovation leaders. The goal has been to develop strategies, tools and models so that residents / patients can successfully lead innovation. At the system level, this leads to developed structures and strategies that create favorable conditions for innovation.

Expected long term effects

One of the project´s starting points has been that healthcare services are often ill-adapted to meet the needs of patients, and that it is difficult to drive innovation as users in a healthcare system. Through the project, we have strengthened patient innovators´ innovative capacity, this by gathering them, share experiences, teach and train on different methods, techniques and ways of thinking about innovation. The patient innovators have shown that they have learned methodologies for innovation management and that they have strengthened their innovative capacity.

Approach and implementation

Through the recruitment campaign, 16 patient innovators with a breadth of diagnoses and experiences were adopted, as well as in terms of gender, age and geography. The target groups we have collaborated with have all been strongly affected by the pandemic. Partly patients and patient organizations and not least caregivers who have had to make strong priorities. The workshop series was instead conducted digitally. The hits have been shorter, but more than the initial plan. The digital way of working has been evaluated continuously and has been perceived to work relatively well.

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