Seminar Monday March 5th 2018 by BigInsight and Statistics Norway: Presentation by Stein Olav Skrøvseth: The national role of the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research and its focus on Health data analytics
2. Background
• Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and
Telemedicine (NST) until 2015.
• Ministry wanted to use existing competence in a
new context.
• Norwegian Centre for E-health Research
established 1. January 2016.
• New Directorate of E-health established at the
same time.
• Localized in Tromsø, under UNN HF.
3. The national centre will support
national needs for research and analysis
in e-health, telemedicine and mobile
health, including evaluation research
and health technology assessment of e-
health.
-The National Budget 2017
The national
mandate
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4. • 60+ employees
• Ca 30 with PhDs
• 7 PhD students
• 20 researchers
• 15 advisors
• 8 professors
• Competence in
• Medicine
• Technology
• Social sciences / sociology
• Economics
Competence
5. Political aim
One citizen – one health record
Health personell must have simple and
secure access to patient and user
information
Citizens must have access to simple and
secure digital services
Data must be accessible for quality
improvement, health surveillance,
governance and research
6. Cooperation projects with national
institutions.
In 2018 the national projects are
thematically aligned with
• «Helseplattformen» in Helse Midt RHF
• Modernization of the EHR in the other
health regions
• One citizen – one health record
• Welfare technology
National projects
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7. • Portifolio of research projects
funded by competitive grants.
• Ensure strong and competitive
competences within the fields
relevant for the national
development in e-ehealth.
• All research must support the needs
for knowledge on a national level.
Externally financed
research
8. Strategic areas and departments
Future EHR
Integrated services
Personal systems and
connected care
Availability and
analysis of data
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10. • Big is not the point
• Several sources
• Quality concerns
• Inherent biases
• Unstructured
• «Complete»
«Big data»
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13. • …are we?
• Where are the data?
• How do we get access to it?
• How do we understand it?
«We are drowning in data»