Official Opening of the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research
The Norwegian Centre for E-health Research was established on 1 January 2016, and today we celebrate the official opening with the Minister of Health and Care Services, Bent Høie.
This new research and assessment centre will collect, produce and disseminate knowledge the authorities need in order to develop knowledge-based policies and practices in the E-health field.
Patients’ health services
Norwegian health authorities have identified a common goal for ICT development in the Health and Care sector for the years to come: a health service where the patient is in the centre.
E-health solutions allow for better communication and information flow between actors that interact regarding patients in the specialist health services and in the municipalities.
Stay at home as long as possible
The citizens will probably have improved service provisions if the health service uses more technology. As an example, the moment when the patient or elderly person must move to a nursing home may be postponed.
- A number of pilot projects have been initiated, and there have been such projects for many years. The Norwegian Centre for E-health Research will provide an overview of the diversity of technological solutions, and reveal good experiences from Norway and worldwide, says Stein Olav Skrøvseth, Centre Director of the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research.
- How do other countries work with welfare technology? What works and what does not? Can we learn anything from the strategic, organisational and political approaches to the introduction and spread of welfare technology in other nations? Does anyone have a better solution for collecting, storing and making available data generated by welfare technology, and are there relevant initiatives at the global level?, asks the Centre Director.
This kind of knowledge summary will be useful for the entire sector, as well as for the health authorities.
Simple and secure access to patient information
Not only should citizens have access to good digital services. Health professionals need easy and secure access to patient information.
- Medical records will become the collaboration and e-health tools of the future. They will allow sharing of updated information between health professionals responsible for the patient, as well as sharing and communication between patients and health professionals. In addition, patients will be able to report information themselves, and have opportunities for access to the information in their own health records, says Skrøvseth.
Big (health) data
Our health generates massive amounts of data. This data can be used for quality improvement, health monitoring, management and research. The data will be managed in a way that protects privacy and guarantees the trust of patients and health workers. Norwegian Centre for E-health Research will investigate advanced statistical methods to extract useful and meaningful information from these large data volumes.