mHealthRegional perspectives

Region Västra Götaland, SwedenRobert Sinclair

Region Västra Götaland

Why regional perspectives?

• mHealth may have direct impact on the medical and care services provided by regions responsible for planning, financing and delivery of healthcare

• Having, in accordance, direct impact on the quality of and the way of organizing, staffing, financing, developing and delivering health- and medical care to regional citizens and visitors

Health and medical care in Region Västra Götaland shall be:

• Safe

• Patient focused

• Knowledge based

• Equal

• Offered in acceptable time

• Effective

Possibilities

• Support the six characteristics of care• Raise efficiency (better healthcare per

krona)• Support three major trends in healthcare

– Integrated care– Clinical guidelines– Patient centeredness

• Support exchange of healthcare experiences

Obstacles

• Practical difficulties– Reimbursement for mhealth services– Legal and responsibility issues– Develop solid business models involving

mhealth

mHealth• Helpline (in Sweden: phone 112, 1177 and

web www.1177.se)• Education and awareness• Diagnostic and treatment support at points of

care• Remote monitoring• Remote data collection• Communication and training for healthcare

workers• Disease and epidemic outbreak tracking

Ways forward• Emergency response systems (e.g., road traffic accidents,

emergency obstetric care)• Human resources coordination, management, and supervision• Diagnostic support and clinician-focused, evidence-based

database and decision support information and documentation possibilities available at the point-of-care

• Remote patient monitoring• Training and continuous professional development for health

care workers• Health-related information/learning for the general public• Health promotion and community mobilization• Support of long-term conditions

METIS• ICT in prehospital acute care/”ambulance

care”• Open arena – health care (civil and defense)

+ academy + companies, all stakeholders clustered around Lindholmen Science Park in Göteborg, Region Västra Götaland

• Practical tools supporting various aspects of mobile medical care

• Deliverables: 1. A handbook with guidelines 2. Testbeds 3. Tests and verifications 4. Implementation