Digital remote care - does it work?
How do we know if digital home monitoring works? What if the benefits arise in places other than where we increase our efforts? What is good enough, and for whom?
Believe in digital remote care
Everyone who works in healthcare has two jobs. One is to do the job. The other is to ensure that the job is further developed. In this way, our healthcare services will also evolve.
This is how Bendik Westlund Hegna summarised his part of the presentation on how to measure whether digital home follow-up works.
Grete Kvernland-Berg had the last word during the webinar:
I believe in digital home monitoring. It's about important principles such as accessibility and healthcare for all.
Recording
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About the presenters
Presentation by Grete Kvernland-Berg, organisation designer in InnoMed, and Bendik Westlund Hegna, program manager at Akershus university hospital.
Grete Kvernland-Berg has a master's degree in economics and is a partner and head of Norway at the innovation company PA Consulting. She leads PA's contribution to the nationwide health innovation network InnoMed. InnoMed is a national competence network owned by the four regional health authorities and KS. This gives Grete Kvernland-Berg a macro perspective on benefit realisation in the health sector. She previously worked for four years on the national trial of digital home follow-up.
Bendik Westlund Hegna is a trained nurse with a master's degree in healthcare management, quality improvement and health economics, and is programme manager for the older patient initiative at Akershus University Hospital. One of the projects in the programme has been part of the national trial of digital home follow-up.