We are a collaboration between the Nordic countries governments and their agencies. We are, from a rural point of view, working to make healthcare and social care more accessible through digital distance spanning solutions and service integration.
We aim to speed up the digital shift of healthcare and social care in remote and rural areas by sharing best practices, provide inspiration and support service integration between healthcare and care.
Regions that are in the forefront, with wide uptake of digital distance spanning services, have secured trust for their service models which often integrates healthcare and care.
The Swedish Region of Värmland and four of its municipalities have come together to increase the use of digital solutions in elderly care and establish a one-stop shop for children with behavioural or mental health issues.
In Southern Denmark, heart patients are encouraged to self-monitor and use digital consultations after their initial physical examinations at the hospital. The iHAC project in the Region of Southern Denmark is working to improve support for patients who could benefit from virtual consultations with the hospital but are not confident in doing so due to a lack of digital proficiency or other obstacles.
6 projects have during summer 2023 been contracted by iHAC. The ambition is to create sustainable integrated Healthcare and Care services, with support of distance spanning solutions. Read more about the projects here.
The Steering Committee of integrated Healthcare and Care – through distance spanning solutions decided in September 2022 to perform a half time project evaluation. Here are the summarised main recommendations obtained during the review.
The iHAC call aims to establish the necessary conditions to implement services for integrated healthcare and care through distance spanning solutions, via co-governance between different actors.
iHAC has launched a new publication, demonstrating how co-governance increase service accessibility through integrated healthcare and social care.
iHAC took part at the norwegian political week in 2022 and contributed to the discussions about integrated healthcare and care through distance spanning solutions. We had five guests invited for two sessions that has been recorded and produced into podcasts. All sessions were conducted at the boat Mester Rønne which was sailed from Bornholm Denmark to…
Nordregio presented their working paper related to Welfare institutes in sparsely populated areas (WIiSPA) at the 17th of June 2022. The overall purpose was to clarify and determine the definition of WIiSPA and identify WIiSPA actors in sparsely populated areas (SPAs) in the Nordic Region and beyond. […]
Presentations and pictures from our participation during H22 city expo in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Experience the future for integrated Healthcare And Care through distance spanning solutions (iHAC), we have 11 cases created by students at Umeå School of Design and Aalto University that take you into the future. With the models as a basis, you can also design your system for integrated Healthcare and Care. […]
We are happy to announce that we can meet up at Vitalis in Gothenburg, the biggest healthcare and care exhibition in the Nordics, at the 18th of May 2022. Our workshop will be conducted between 15:30-17:00.
Representatives from Nordic institutions and projects met on 21st of April at Nordregio in Stockholm to discuss how integrated healthcare and care can become a reality across the Nordics. […]
During the Health and Wellness week at World Expo at the end of January to the beginning of February 2022, iHAC participated in events connected to the Swedish pavilion as well as the Finnish pavilion. […]
What will integrated healthcare and care look like in 2030? Explore the visualizations made by interaction design students at Aalto university. […]
Remote consultations through augmented reality and better sleep through ai. These are some of the concepts of integrated healthcare and care in 2030, made by interaction design students at Umeå Institute of Design.
Today at World Expo, iHAC will take part at a session in the Swedish pavilion between 13:00-15:00 CET. See the full programme and link for the live session!
We are very proud of being invited to exhibit iHAC, integrated Healthcare And Care, at World Expo in Dubai. Our participation in Dubai will coincide with Arab Health week as well as Health and Wellness week by the end of January until early February 2022.
We have collaborated with Aalto University – Department of Design and Umeå Institute of Design during autumn 2021 until January 2022 and their design students at Master level. This has been developed with a remote and rural point of view and resulted in 11 concepts of integrated Healthcare and Care.
During the last eight months, iHAC has collaborated with Nordic Rebels to visualize the knowledge collected during the last four years of studies by Healthcare and Care through distance spanning solutions (Vård och Omsorg På Distans – VOPD). Results from the collaboration will be premiered at Expo 2020 Dubai during the end of January to early February 2022.
What value can distance spanning solutions in healthcare and care bring the user? Listen to experiences from Nordic users.
For inspiration: We will map out and exemplify 5-8 model areas from Nordic countries in a publication. Focus on their system components which makes integrated healthcare and care service offers possible.
For orientation: We will demonstrate why and where health data are stored (siloed). Provide models of health data integration and models to transfer of health data between healthcare and care stakeholders.
Future calls: We will support development of integrated healthcare and care service provision in minimum 5 areas, underpinned by distance spanning solutions.
We are using the knowledge base built up within VOPD 2018-2021, the priority project forming part of the Swedish presidency programme for the Nordic Council of Ministers.
