iHAC FINAL CONFERENCE

An end for a
new beginning

5-6th of November

Folkets Hus, Storuman, Sweden

Programme

Pre-conference schedule

08:50

Departure Arlanda Airport
10:20  Arrival Lycksele Airport

10:50

Bus from Lycksele Airport
12:20 Arrival at conference venue Folkets Hus, Storuman

12:30-13:15

Lunch at the conference venue

Day 1: 5th of November

13:30-15.00

Session 1: Welcome to the final conference – a journey to
a new beginning

  • Welcome: iHAC chairman, Henrik Moberg    
  • Welcome: Mayor in Storuman, Ulrik Dahlgren  
  • Governor of Västerbotten County, Helene Hellmark Knutsson  
  • Minister of Health Care, Acko Ankarberg Johansson
    Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden
  • Vision 2030, Karen Elleman GS, Nordic Council of Ministers (recorded)   
  • The journey of  VOPD to iHAC, the end for a new beginning,
    Niclas Forsling iHAC project manager 
  • This is a conference forming part of the Swedish presidency programme of Nordic Council of Ministers 2024
  • Vision 2030 – Films from Umeå school of design and Aalto University – Department of Design
  • What makes iHAC and Healthcare and Care through distance spanning solutions to a pathfinder – 7 years of Nordic collaboration.

15.00

Swedish Fika

Purpose of session 1

The ambition is to develop an atmosphere to celebrate the commitment and achievements made by integrated Healthcare and Care 2021-2024 and the previous Swedish presidency project from 2018-2021 Healthcare and Care through Distance Spanning Solutions (In Swedish: Vård och Omsorg På Distans; VOPD). 

The two projects celebrating 7 successful years of Nordic collaboration, mark the journey to an end of a new beginning for integrated Healthcare and Care with distance spanning technology support. Eliminating distance as a hinder for high quality healthcare with a focus on remote and rural citizens.

15:30 – 16:30

Session 2: Demonstrating model areas for integrated Healthcare and Care with support of distance spanning solutions

  • Model area – Introduction to model area Päijät Häme  
  • Reflection from the floor: short interview with model area Agder 
  • Call 1 project – Bornholm 
  • Call 2 project – Åland
  • Call 2 project – South Karelia Well-being county  
  • Reflection from the floor: interview with model area Fjallabygd

Panel discussion – with stakeholders and actors who has transformed their service provision toward integrated Healthcare and Care supported by distance spanning technology. 

Purpose of session 2

We will delve into the core elements essential for establishing integrated healthcare and care services, with a special emphasis on catering to the needs of citizens residing in remote and rural areas. During this session, we will provide a platform for healthcare and care providers who have successfully implemented such integrated systems to share their insights and experiences.

By giving the floor to healthcare and care providers who have firsthand experience in implementing integrated services, we hope to inspire and inform others in remote and rural areas to go on a journey to a new beginning.

16.30

End of day 1

Evening schedule

16:40

Bus to Hotell Toppen

17:00-18:30

Mingle at Centre for Rural Medicine

19:00

Dinner at Hotell Toppen

Pre-conference schedule

08:30

Bus from Hotell Toppen to Folkets Hus, conference venue

Day 2 – 6th of November

09:00-09:10

Welcome to day 2 and summary of day 1 – Reflections by iHAC project manager Bengt Andersson, Nordic Welfare Center

09:10-10.00

Session 3: Can iHAC contribute with a positive environmental impact?

  • Distance spanning solutions in health care and care: Climate impacts and sustainability synergies: introduction by Bengt Andersson and results introduced by involved partners:
  • Medicine robot services in health care and care: Contribution to the green transition, Helinä Melkas, Professor, LUT University
  • Sustainability in digital health care: A new tool for evaluating impacts, Nelso Ekane, Researcher, Stockholm Environment Institute

Discussion will follow the introduction where Rolf Elmér, Director, Nordregio will be included.

Purpose of session 3

Environmental impact is today a key factor in all development work, we hope to highlight if and how contribution towards sustainability can be achieved with integrated Healthcare and Care supported by distance spanning technologies. 

The ambition is to stress the impact on different sustainable development goals, and how to plan service provision to contribute to sustainability. 

10.00

Swedish Fika

10:30-11.30

Session 4: Knowledge gained and needed to facilitate safe, secure and high quality integrated Healthcare and Care

  • Introduction articles – professional perspective, Christine Gustavsson, Professor, Sofiahemmet University
  • Policy brief on iHAC, Gunn Hilde Rotvold, Researcher, Norwegian Centre for E-health Research
  • Older adults perspective, Viktoria Sander, Researcher, Mälardalen university
  • senior lecturer
  • The rural health research perspective,  Anette Edin-Liljegren, Research Strategist / Senior Researcher, Centre for Rural Medicine – Region Västerbotten
  • Reflections, Halldór Sigurður Guðmundsson, Associate Professor, University of Iceland

Discussion: What new knowledge is necessary to develop to obtain and maintain healthcare and care in rural regions? What is the next step? Where do we start? Who will start?

Purpose of session 4

New knowledge and sharing new knowledge drives change. The ambition is to demonstrate what knowledge and how new knowledge is best obtained in fragile healthcare and care service provision environments, such as in remote and rural areas. 

Further the session aims to establish why rural research and development in healthcare and care, from and in the rural areas, contribute to the future for the Nordics.

11:45-11:5

Final Remarks – Closing the conference, Swedish Presidency Programme of NCM and Henrik Moberg, iHAC chairman

11:55

End of conference

After conference schedule

12:10

Bus to Hotell Toppen

12:30-13:45

Lunch at Hotell Toppen

14:00

Bus leaves for Lycksele Airport from Hotell Toppen

15:30

Bus arrives at Lycksele Airport

16:50

Departure Lycksele Airport – Arlanda