The Digital Health Revolution - seminar
We invite you to join our pre EHiN seminar on October 30th in Oslo: The Digital Health Revolution is happening now: How will it affect Norwegian healthcare?

If you are attending the conference EHiN Future Health 2017 in Oslo Spektrum Norway October 31 - November 1, we have a special happening for you.
Monday October 30 at 12:00, the day before EHiN starts, we invite conference participants to a seminar hosted by the Norwegian Centre for E-health research and the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. The seminar is also sponsored by the Project Full Flow, which is funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
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The seminar will be in English, and the deadline for registration is October 22.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE SEMINAR
Healthcare reshaped
The seminar will discuss how ICT, medical devices, sensor systems, and new telehealth services, are reshaping healthcare. This development is driven by several factors:
- Health authorities’ approval of remote diagnostic tools, in particular US’ FDA
- The advancement of different telehealth platforms for managing chronic conditions and achieving specific patient outcomes
- The development of different telehealth services offered by private and public healthcare organizations and systems
- Innovative direct-to-consumer initiative by Samsung, Apple, American Well and others
- DIY (Do-It-Yourself) initiatives that force health care institutions and industry to change their business models and open up their devises and systems
- Social media and cloud-based solutions have moved healthcare initiatives from healthcare professionals to patients and relatives
- Standardization enables exchange of health data between all stakeholders in health care
Goals of the seminar
- Provide a brief overview of what is happening in health technology, especially related to telehealth/telemedicine, eHealth/mHealth and health consumers
- Explores how technology will change the delivery of healthcare
- Make health actors, Norwegian and international, aware of the current situation and discuss how to relate to it
Program
Time | Topic | Presenter |
12:00 - 12:10 | Introduction | S. Skrøvseth |
12:10 - 13:30 | The digital health revolution is happening now | G. Hartvigsen |
13:30 - 13:45 | Break | |
13:45 - 14:30 | DIY, social media, cloud-based solutions, mHealth and diabetes – how patients take control of their diabetes | E. Årsand |
14:30 - 15:00 | Patients’ access to their own health data – does it matter? | T. Sørensen |
15:00 - 15:15 | Break - sandwiches and refreshments | |
15:15 - 15:45 | Big data is here – from ICT-driven to data driven health care | S. Skrøvseth |
15:45 - 16:15 | Is technology alone the solution? What is needed in addition that benefit patients and make them stay focused | M. Bradway |
16:15 - 16:30 | Break | |
16:30 - 17:30 | Discussion | All |
Presenters - click names for bio
![]() Stein Olav Skrøvseth, director, NSE | ![]() |
![]() Meghan Bradway, PhD candidate, NSE | ![]() Eirik Årsand, professor, NSE/UiT |