KuopioHealth is a network of health professionals committed to advancing health technology expertise, research, business life and awareness of the area

1. KuopioHealth
Living Labs
Arto Holopainen
Senior Digital Advisor
City of Kuopio

2. KuopioHealth is a network
of health professionals
committed to advancing
health technology
expertise, research,
business life and
awareness of the area

3. Kuopio University
Hospital Living Lab
From 2016, the KUH Living Lab
project has provided an authentic
testing and research environment
for companies in the most
appropriate departments and
outpatient clinics in the University
Hospital.
The companies involved range
from small start-ups to large
corporations.
Our services include product and
IT innovation and testing, help
with documentation for regulatory
processes, research collaboration
and clinical trials.
One of the five
University Hospitals
in Finland
Specialised medical
care in an area of
248,000 inhabitants
Advanced specialised
medical care in
Eastern and Central
Finland.

4. Kuopio Living Lab
The City of Kuopio has Living Lab
services that companies developing
future healthcare solutions can use
to test and improve their products
and services in an authentic
healthcare environment.
The Living Lab environment is for
primary health care services and is
specialised in geriatric and home
care.
Through Living Lab, companies
receive information about the
usability of their solutions, while
healthcare providers get information
about the benefits of the latest
solutions and their cost-
effectiveness.
One of Finland’s
leading cities in the
fields of health,
wellness and safety
Member of the WHO
Healthy Cities
Network since 2005
Reference site for
European Innovation
Partnership on Active
Healthy Ageing

5. Arto Holopainen | www.kuopiohealth.fi | 29.11.2017
LIVING LAB IN RDI PROCESS
Research
&
Development
Living
Lab
Idea
Sales
&
Marketing
End
user
Development cycles based on feedback
Co-creation with end users
• Customer
needs
• Idea / concept
development
• Product and
service
development
• Regulatory
framework
• Testing in
authentic
environment
• Sales &
Marketing
• Distribution
channels
• Pricing
• Rollout
• Training
• Maintenance
• Futher
development

6. Arto Holopainen | www.kuopiohealth.fi | 29.11.2017
LIVING LAB PROCESS
Plan
•Contact: initial feasibility check (company & testing organisation), feedback within 2 weeks
•Planning: test plan (company)
•Contracts: testing agreement (company & testing organisation)
Test
•Training and communication
•Testing
•Feedback
Evaluate
•Feedback analysing
•Assessment of company’s product
•Evaluation of innovations and activity of the testing organisation
•External communication

7. Arto Holopainen | www.kuopiohealth.fi | 29.11.2017
WWW.KUOPIOHEALTH.FI
CONTACT
1
• COMPANY INFORMATION
• NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS
FOR COLLABORATION
INPUT
2
• REPONSE WITHIN 2 WEEKS
• INITIAL FEASIBILITY CHECK
RESPONSE
3
HOW TO REACH LIVING LAB?
Fill out contact form

8. Arto Holopainen | www.kuopiohealth.fi | 29.11.2017
LIVING LAB
Q2/2016-Q2/2017
33
Companies
through
Living Lab
79%
(26)
micro
58%
(19)
<5years
(startup)
48%
(16)
Pohjois-Savo
region
39%
(13)
Kuopio
region
9%
(3)
Other than
Finnish
53
Products /
services / ideas
tested
55%
(29)
Kuopio
Living Lab
45%
(24)
KUH
Living Lab

9. Arto Holopainen | www.kuopiohealth.fi | 29.11.2017
COMPANIES NEEDS FOR LIVING LAB?
30,30%
39,40%
63,60%
72,70%
Clinical trials
Test run
Co-creation in the development phase
Testing products and services
*Living Lab survey during Future Care 2017 (n=35)

10. Thank you!
Arto Holopainen
arto.holopainen(at)kuopio.fi
@kuopiohealth
/kuopiohealth
www.kuopiohealth.fi