Test Bed Facilities for Health Innovation, keynote at international conference organized by the OuluHealth ecosystem on October 20th 2015

1. Testbeds as enabling digitalization and
innovation for health
Glen Koskela 20.10.2015 Oulu
Fujitsu Fellow
CTO Nordic
Test Bed Facilities for Health Innovation

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Digitalization = quality, efficiency, experience
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What factors, enabled by digitalization, drive transformation in healthcare?
Does it differ depending on how it is organized, financed, provided
– or how innovation and development is organized?
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Prevention
Data analytics
Point of care
Digital hospital
Treatment
Connected health
Assisted living
Home care
Wellbeing
Activity monitoring

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Digital healthcare services
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Healthcare services do not need a digital
strategy but a new patient journey strategy
where digital technologies play a major role
Access to testbeds can
drive innovation and
increase the likelihood
of a successful
introduction of a new
digital solutions

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Platform practices for innovation
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Prototyping
Field trials
Living labs
Market
pilots
Societal
pilots
Testbeds
Focus: from testing to design
Maturity: from low to high

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Testbeds as a catalyst for digital solutions
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Active in stimulating innovation with the public sector,
the business and with opening up academic research
A place where citizens, government agencies,
municipalities, IT-suppliers and researchers can work
together in a common ecosystem of public innovation
Experimentation platforms [for large development
projects] deployed and tested in an environment that
resembles real-world conditions
Demonstrate new technologies to create new products &
services, and show how new technologies can be usefully
deployed
They fuel innovative ideas, and generate an appreciable
and measurable impact on their market

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Criteria for participation
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Service system design and testing, Co-validation, Resources to build on,
Co-operation, Testbed, Ecosystem, Demonstrator, Experiments and
validations, Collaborative usage, Real process environment, Funding,
Piloting, Grand challenge, Integration platform for a given area/areas,…
Expertise and ability to contribute
technical components and/or qualified
human resources to work as a part of
the ecosystem to execute specific work
tasks related to digitalization of
healthcare
The small print:
Openness regarding results as well
as partnership
Public involvement to actively
support and control
Commercial maturity, closeness to
market introduction
Scope of stakeholders from
different levels in the value chain

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Expectations
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As a Sponsor:
Help prioritize and
accelerate development
of importance to your
organization and
customers.
Validates the willingness
of industry to address
specific issues requiring
new solutions.
Help align industry to
cooperatively advance
solutions to meet
specific business needs.
As an Actor/Participant:
Build early knowledge and experience
with developing solutions.
Be among the first to make new
solutions available in the marketplace.
Cooperatively develop workable
solutions in 4-6 months vice years for
traditional processes.
Gain acknowledgement of and visibility
with organizations sponsoring similar
initiative requirements.
Develop and validate emerging
solutions in the context of sponsor
business cases and scenarios.
Call for participation
process must prove to
produce results!

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There is a new New Atlantis rising? Stay realistic.
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There is a new New Atlantis rising from the sea, purported to
support the future of science, health, and public services
Public–private–civic partnership
in which stakeholders co-create…

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Reference: Deborah J. Jackson, National Science Foundation
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Testbeds can create healthy innovation ecosystems
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Coupling the resources available in the knowledge
economy with those available in the commercial economy,
as some fraction of profits in the commercial economy
Ecosystem needs to close the loop between
R&D investments through innovations that
increase profits in the commercial economy
Resources = actors, entities, and intangibles

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Testbeds can serve as useful incubators
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In the past few years a necessity has emerged to experiment technologies, services, etc. in a more
realistic environment, leading to the creation of innovation spaces where…
Actors can execute their
trials, collect data and further
improve their solutions
Sponsor can assess organizational ROI
related to efficiency and effectiveness
gains associated with a solution

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Furthering the advancement of healthcare
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Drug Discovery Heart Simulator HumanBridge
Drastically shortening
efficacy testing times
for new drugs
Replicating myocardial
cells to simulate the organ,
aiming to find new
treatment methods
Enabling safe, quality
healthcare by sharing
medical records

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Typical testbed candidate
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Early detection of
irregularities in motor
functions using a sensory
smart house
To identify risks from the
relationships between daily
routines and illnesses to
support independent
lifestyles
Working towards reducing
readmission to hospital
Ability to quantify subtle changes Easy to compare observations over time
Continuous assessment Patient’s natural behaviour
Real time / immediate Semi-automated
Inform clinical decision-making / personalized intervention

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Material effects?
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Your need, your direction; future organization and operation
Large variations in how the Nordic countries organize development and testing of
innovative ideas in health and welfare (different responsibilities, organizational
structures and practical facilities) – there are over 51 testbeds already…
Testbeds need to be built
They need to be maintained
They consume resources & time
They are expensive to scale
They become obsolete quickly

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Towards the ’actually existing’ digital health
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The problem with testbeds is… that they are testbeds
Testbed must aim to generate an appreciable and measurable impact on its market.
What is the service design and deployment process after testbed?
Is there an actual intention to deploy?
Ability to provide guidance
and (re)orient the whole
healthcare sector to
innovative new solutions!

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OuluHealth co-creation testbed
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√ Access to testbed building blocks
√ Close to reality platform environment
√ Innovation PoCs to accelerate opportunities
√ Early stage and IPR governance
√ Identification of patient process
√ Living lab for functional implementation
√ Research conducted by university on a given topic
√ Commercial initiatives in parallel

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