Background information
Sirona, in partnership with Region Västerbotten and Stockholm University, has participated in the Vinnova-funded program Challenge-driven innovation (UDI). Within UDI, collaborative projects are funded that work long-term to achieve the sustainability goals in Agenda 2030. UDI is implemented in three stages where the project in November 2019 was ready with stage 1. The projects that participated in stage 1 have the opportunity to apply for stage 2, which runs for two years and aims to deepen collaboration with more actors and to develop and test the solution. After that, projects can apply for stage 3, which aims to test and implement the solution in a real environment and on a larger scale, as well as clarify a plan for disseminating the innovation.
Challenge
The project aims to create the conditions for person-centered and close care by fundamentally changing the care process for patients, caregivers and relatives. The long-term goal is, based on the needs of patients and users, to create the conditions for self-care within the respective care and care process and to enable patient participation based on needs, conditions and wishes. The project also wants to develop a method that can be applied in different types of activities to achieve a user-driven development of health and medical services where patients' needs are central.
Implementation
In stage 1, the project has, among other things, established contacts with actors who can participate in stage 2, conducted an environmental analysis and tested service design methods on a smaller scale in some activities (heart failure patients at the Innovation Clinic in Bjurholm and patients at the Infection Clinic at Norrland University Hospital).
Outcome
Based on the needs of patients and caregivers, a number of solution proposals have been identified that are planned to be further developed in stage 2 if funding is granted from Vinnova. Common to the proposed solutions is that they will enable a user-driven development of health care and create the conditions for self-care in each patient process. The project has also identified obstacles at both regional and national levels that complicate the transition to close care and aims to raise these obstacles to the relevant bodies to facilitate the transition to close care nationally.
Find out more about the Challenge Driven Innovation (CDI) program.
