This document discusses eHealth and digital solutions in healthcare. It summarizes the benefits of eHealth such as preventative care, coordination, transparency, and quality of care. It provides examples of digital dictation, electronic patient records, video communication for consultations, and mobile health solutions. The document also discusses international examples of telemedicine in Russia and India's District Health Information System used across multiple countries in Africa and Asia.

1. eHealth - the only option
State visit by President Medvedev
Fredrik Syversen
Director Industry Development

2. IKT-Norge
• Largest business association for the ICT industry.
• Membership of 400 companies with total turnover of 15 bill. Euro
50% of the Norwegian market.
• Represents all parts of the ICT value chain, telcos, content
providers, software and services.
• International network
o member of EICTA, WITSA, and ICC
• Sets the ICT industry on the agenda – in politics, in media, in the
business and financial community and in the the general public.
• Promotes R&D, innovation and export- and internationalization
within the ICT industry
• Organize Norwegian eHealth Association

6. Solutions
• Preventive care
• Co-ordination
• More for less
• Consolidation ICT
• Transparency
• Quality in care
• EPJ

8. Digitaldictation
Pasient terminal
Audio/Video Patient signal TV distribution
IP Telephony
Fixed/wireless
Pheripherals
Profesor
Student
Doctor Alarm/911
Message server Pasient Admin
worker
Active Directory
Syke-
Log on/ pleier Bio-Ing.
auhentication
Assistant
nurse
MDA
Operating systems/
Tools Norsk
Helsenett
Intelligent
wiring
Applik. Applik.
Network Data Data
Fixed/wireless
DMF/NTNU St. Olav

9. Video communication in healthcare – strategic tool
in clinical and administrative applications
New Way of Working

10. Norsk
Helsenett
Offshore installasjon
med video på
sykestue
På plattformen kan man
diagnose pasient ha
ekspertise hvor som helst i
Norsk Helsenett.
Diagnose live fra PC

11. Russian Telemedicine Association
 Russian Telemedicine Association helps physicians in distant cities
and remote areas consult with specialists in Moscow
 Ambulance crews can report directly to hospitals and public authorities
from the scene of emergencies
 In total more than 2000 video consultations are completed every year!

12. Telemedicine applications
Video communication in healthcare can be used for many different
purposes as a clinical, educational and administrative tool.
Among others:
 Care planning/ discharge conferences
 Diagnostics
 Therapy
 Staff and/or board meetings
 Follow up
 Interpreter services
 Monitoring
 Education
 Research
 Seminars

13. Wellness & preven+on programmes via mobile phones and PC / internet
Reduce alcohol, quit smoking, eat healthier, increased physical ac+vity
Proprietary technology, PsyBase, combining psychology and technology
Tested in clinical trials – studies published in highly ranked scien+fic journals
To help as many as possible to the best life possible

14. Stop smoking for good! The worlds most effec+ve web‐based
quit smoking program. Tested in clinical trials.
45 days program, up to 1 year follow up.
Internet, PC, mobile phones, smartphones.
Reduce your drinking with ac+ve psychology!
Set your own drinking level.
58 days Individualized program. 1 year follow up.
Internet, PC, mobile phones, smartphones.
To help as many as possible to the best life possible

15. Health Information Systems Program (HISP)
• District Health Information System (DHIS)
– Governance of health care programs (Vaccination, mother-child, HIV/AIDS)
– Patient treatment
• Started in South Africa ’94, initiated and coordinated by University of Oslo
• Open source software; combining research, education (PhD and Master level), and
software development (including organizational implementation and use)
• Used in
– 15 African countries and 3 Asian (India, Vietnam and Bangladesh).
– Several International Masters programs and 35 PhD students (15 completed).
• India: in use in more than 20 states. Now selected as national standard.
• WHO is adopting DHIS as key component of their Public Health Information Toolkit

16. DHIS Mobile: Mobile phones for effective data
exchange and communication in public health
• Mobile‐based Sub‐center Data Repor5ng
with Seamless integra5on with DHIS
– Weekly and monthly reports sent from
facili+es at the lowest level where no
computers nor Internet exist
– May 2009 : Pilots started at 300 sub‐
centers in 5 states in India
– 7 states have decided to scale to the whole
state
– Pilots in 2 states in Nigeria
• Patient Record System for community health workers
– Mobile phone based access
– Individuals are registered and tracked throughout the duration of the
health program they are enrolled in
– Implementation started in 2 states in India

17. World Medical Card - Three products
in one
onWeb onMobile onCard
Your online web portal A tool that helps you onCard is a sealed card that
where you store and communicate your health contains your most vital
manage all your personal information regardless of health information.
information. language barriers.
Ensure that doctors and
Allows you to stay in health personnel receive
onMobile is at your service
charge of your health and accurate and reliable
whenever you are away from
personal information in information about your health
home, and need assistance
your daily life. – for safer medical treatment.
with communicating your
information.

18. A huge problem
- for productivity

19. The Solution: DIPS Paperless EPR
 Electronic referrals and booking
 Electronic internal communication
 Electronic ordering of tests and examinations
 Information is documented only once
 Electronic ordination of medicine
 Results from tests and examinations are available electronic
 Dictation is done digitally and is available immediately
 Communication with primary care and other hospitals are
electronic
 Quick and easy single sign on in all systems.

20. Norway: World Leader in EPR
• 2001: The first paperless EPR Hospital in Norway:
Arendal
• This was a big success
• Large parts om the Norwegian Health care have today
abandoned the system of paper-based medical record

21. The situation in Norway: EPR

22. Looking forward to further co-operation

23. Thank you!
Contact:
fs@ikt-norge.no