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🚨New byFounders investment alert! Livv Health - a 🇳🇴 HealthTech company founded by Sverre Sundsdal (prev. Head of AI at Babylon Health) and Ishita Barua, MD PhD (a medical doctor with a PhD in AI for Medicine and the author of the highly praised book “Artificial Intelligence Saves Lives”) - is tackling one of the most difficult but impactful problems we face in healthcare today: consolidating fragmented medical records into a single accessible platform. Read more about why we invested here: https://lnkd.in/dfm9wm9T

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📢 A Finnish SME is searching for distributors and users for digital health solution for supporting rehabilitation, self-care and medical treatments for mental health, chronic diseases, physical disorders and lifestyle improvements. A Finnish SME, established 2014, provides digital health solutions for in-patient and out-patient care needs. The company's products are based on a patented platform that enables advancement in improving the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of rehabilitation, self-care, and various medical treatments. The product range includes DTx (digital therapeutics) care pathways for e.g. - Mental health: anxiety, depression, panic, ADHD, insomnia and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) - Chronic diseases: diabetes, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), hypertension, heart diseases - Physical rehabilitation: stroke, lower back pain, shoulder, ankle and knee - Lifestyle medicine: smoking cessation and obesity. The company is searching for distributors with direct access to healthcare providers and patients. The partnership can include a direct customer relationship, localisation and co-development of products for the customers' needs. Also, direct contacts to healthcare organisations and service providers are applicable. 🔗 Interested? Read more and contact your closest EEN advisor: https://lnkd.in/dSwArbuE #EENCanHelp #EENPartnering #Yrityskontaktipörssi #FromFinland

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🌟 On the first day of Arctic15, which is a great tech-focused startup event in the Nordics, I had a brief but enlightening discussion with Mikko Pitkänen about the annoying detachment of some Finnish medical service providers from the patient's perspective. Surprisingly, it made me appreciate Hungary's #EESZT healthcare system, where all medical records are seamlessly accessible, no matter the provider, public or private, big fish or small fish. One point to Hungary! 🌍 💡 This conversation led me to explore the latest planned legislation on patient data in the EU. I discovered that the European Parliament has recently approved a proposal to establish the European Health Data Space (EHDS), set to revolutionize health data access across Europe! Good news! 🚀 📈 With the EHDS, EU citizens will be able to access their health data electronically, instantly, and free of charge. This data, including patient summaries, electronic prescriptions, lab results, and discharge reports, will be in a common European format, facilitating easy sharing across borders. 🌐 🔐 The regulation also ensures robust data protection. While researchers and public institutions can use health data, no personal information will be shared without patient consent. Patients will control their data, with the ability to add, rectify, restrict access, and obtain usage information. 🛡️ 👩‍⚕️ For health professionals and researchers, the EHDS promises secure access to high-quality health data, enabling faster and cheaper administrative procedures and improving treatment outcomes. This initiative is expected to save nearly €11 billion in the next decade! 💶 🌟 EU countries will establish national health data access services based on the MyHealth@EU platform, ensuring citizens' rights are safeguarded. This marks a significant step forward in healthcare innovation and data accessibility across Europe! 🌟 For more details, check out the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dfyH66Fb #Arctic15 #HealthcareInnovation #EUHealthDataSpace #DigitalHealth #HealthTech #EHealth #PatientCare #DataPrivacy #HealthData #EURegulation #EESZT

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📢 Final Day to sign up to my digital lecture on “Intersectionality and Challenges in Healthcare” hosted by the Swedish Endometriosis Association. Everyone is welcome! Sign up using the link below. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dRwVKWTb 📅 Date: May 29, 2024 🕕 Time: 18:00 – 19:30 We will explore: 🔹 What is intersectionality? 🔹 Examples of how different identities and societal factors can affect access to healthcare and treatment. 🔹 How endometriosis is impacted by intersectional factors such as gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. 🔹 The consequences of late diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis. 🔹 Ways to make healthcare more inclusive and equitable for individuals with endometriosis. #Healthcare #Intersectionality #Endometriosis #InclusiveHealthcare

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🗣 I’m excited to speak at Radical Health Festival Helsinki May 21-23 2024! 🌟 Radical Health Festival Helsinki 🇫🇮 brings together a unique interdisciplinary community of like-minded digital healthcare visionaries aiming to revolutionize modern healthcare and make it sustainable again. ‌ A panel debate on May 23 will explore 📌 the challenges of adopting digital health solutions 📌 the limitations of current reimbursement policies 📌 the strategies to update innovation adoption frameworks where I will share expertise and lessons learnt from the 🇧🇪 #mhealth model, while colleagues do the same about the 🇩🇪 #DiGA and the 🇫🇷 PECAN. On stage with Alberta M.C. Spreafico, PhD, MBA, Dr. Tobias Möllers, Mikael Rinnetmäki, Louisa Stüwe, Jorge Gonzalez Olalla and Sonja Müller 🎯 Engaging healthcare professionals, policymakers, and industry innovators, the goal is to outline actionable solutions that foster a more agile and responsive healthcare ecosystem and ensure digital health technologies are accessible and beneficial for all. Interested to join? The first 10 can use my code “RHF2433” to sign up for #RadicalHealth tickets and get 15% OFF. 🌐 https://lnkd.in/eEtq8q8D ‌ 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️ If you are also there, please let me know so we can catch-up. See you in Helsinki – It’s critical to be radical! ‌ #mhealthbelgium #digitalhealth #healthinnovation

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I'm proud to announce that Ankerias Oy has been selected for the Health Incubator Helsinki program by Helsingin kaupunki – Helsingfors stad – City of Helsinki and University of Helsinki . This collaboration is significant for us and is a big step forward in our commitment to integrate health, software technology and artificial intelligence to transform healthcare and chronic pain treatments. Ankerias provides healthcare professionals with a digital platform that enhances the treatment of chronic pain patients. Using pain diary app, data analysis, AI/ML and physiological modeling Ankerias personalizes and targets spinal cord stimulation pain therapy. Our team brings together a unique combination of expertise in the physiology of the pain and artificial intelligence. Our passion is to fuse these with cutting-edge technology to create a game-changing healthcare solution for chronic pain. Thanks to co-founder Riku Tikkanen, partners, and advisors. Special thanks to our advisors Pekka Männistö, Mette Nissen and Alexander Jung. I am eager to start the next phase of our journey! If you're interested in learning more about our startup, please don't hesitate to reach out to me! Let’s treat chronic pain together! #chronicpain #spinalcordstimulation #SCS #artificialintelligence #healthstartup #health #healthtech #funding #startup

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One of the greatest challenges in the management of sleep health is identifying, engaging and treating the so-called ‘85 percenters’. Futurice and breathesimple took on this challenge over the last year. Now that we have filed several patents on our innovations, we are able to share our analyses and proposed solutions with you. 1.2 billion individuals suffer from sleep disturbed breathing worldwide, and around 85% have not even been diagnosed, yet alone treated. This is an enormous burden on healthcare costs, support systems and life quality. The shortcomings of current sleep diagnoses and therapeutic methods have largely failed to make any impact on these ‘85 percenters’ who, unknowingly, may be walking around with life threatening symptoms. Not satisfied in merely producing a report, we have taken our ideas into practice. We’ve had good results from our initial tests, and we continue to work to refine and improve what we believe can be a transformative diagnostic and treatment for a common and debilitating health issue. Advances in AI and wearables in combination, promise a near-term and major boost to what we can do to bring better sleep to millions. We invite interested parties to join our group members to capture this large opportunity. For much more see https://lnkd.in/g8i2kaBf . or click on the image. And if you want to learn how you can participate in our program, please contact Futurice or breathesimple executives. #sleepdisturbedbreathing #sleepai #OSA #loopgain #sleeptrackers

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🌟The topic of AI is everywhere and today’s seminar was held by two exceptionally well-merited speakers: @Carl-Henrik Svanberg and Claudia Olsson. Here are some of the take-aways: 🧩 For a country to succeed as a relevant global player on the AI scene, pieces in a massive societal puzzle are required: electricity infrastructure, a talent pool, major investments, a legal scene that does not hinder innovation too much, too early etc. All of this requires central coordination. No doubt, the report from the AI commission will offer a deep dive on how to succeed. 🤖 There is so much innovation happening in the AI space that is already reality today but still sounds like science fiction: gustatory technology with technological lollipops where you choose the flavor to lick, devices that can detect smells, the use of computational empathy and other people literate technology (no, my fellow psychologists, our professions are not safeguarded…), soft robots that can fix their own broken parts… 🚀 To create the prerequisites for all of this innovation, we need to create and sustain a climate for learning and build a work climate that attracts the talents from all over the world. It also requires training on a societal scale to transform curiosity into real skills, both on a broad and a deep scale. 💡Can’t wait to learn more from someone deeply involved in the heart of AI research and development. Cladia and Stellar Capacity, you have one more dedicated follower 🌟. 🙏🏼 Thank you @företagsekonomiska föreningen and SSE Alumni Club for organizing.

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A new study covering more than 3 million Danish people concludes that long-term exposure to PM2.5 and NO2 is linked to the onset of more than 700 health conditions. The strongest links are with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and ischaemic heart disease, but the analysis also identifies air pollution as a factor in diseases previously unexplored. https://lnkd.in/dvfa2XTU #airpollution #airquality

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🗣 Inscripta is a Finnish speech recognition company whose mission is to help healthcare professionals speed up their work. With the help of CSC’s Puhti supercomputer and Business Finland’s compute grant, Inscripta has developed the most accurate AI-powered speech recognition technology on the market. ⏲ Inscripta's dictation application will significantly speed up the work of healthcare professionals. According to a survey, the application saves users an average of 45 minutes a day. The app has a huge impact on both users’ daily work and society at large as it’s saving healthcare resources. 💥 Inscripta was one of the first Finnish companies to seek and receive R&D computing grant from Business Finland, allowing them the access to CSC’s Puhti supercomputer free of charge as early as in 2020. Read more in the feature story 👉 https://lnkd.in/dqV4v8_H #speechrecognition #AI #HPC #RDI

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OMG! 😱 Less than 50% of people follow the doctor's prescribed treatment?! 🤷‍♂️ BIG THANKS to LOGIN and Kilo Health 🙏 for giving me and our AI Assistant, Nio 🤖 (aka Little Ball of Technology), a chance to share the latest research on how AI is used to improve health care. We were able to highlight the latest developments and emphasize the importance of patient behavioral change to improve their health every day, step by step. 😊

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I have done the application to apply for this following training and continue "GenAI Aided eHealth Development for Business Differentiation & No-Code Exploration", which was partially testified a few days ago in Design Thinking Hackathon at Oulu: The Training of OYSTER Incubator (https://lnkd.in/dP-nAsu4) If able accepted there, the actual time of it will be 2H2024. No-Code Exploration has a bigger uncertainty according to these studies with 52% as FTR (First Time Right) rate and AI-assisted complexity shown as follows: 1. STUDY FINDS THAT 52 PERCENT OF CHATGPT ANSWERS TO PROGRAMMING QUESTIONS ARE WRONG https://lnkd.in/dW64VURv 2. AI-assisted software development vs. the traditional way https://lnkd.in/dzhVnckB If the difference of human involvement levels is essential, there are 3 options in my OYSTER application for eHealth Development - determined in 2H2024 even though they are all still somehow demanding now. However, Business Differentiation as another part could be easier to re-use these abilities already tried in Oulun Design Hackathon: LLMs Are More Than Generative AI https://lnkd.in/d7Udv24u LLMs can do a lot more than just generation of text content such as: 1) Creation / Generation 2) Summarization 3) Translation 4) Interpretation / Extraction Also far beyond all of them, I had testified / learned the key issues how to reduce / avoid GenAI hallucinations along with multiple GenAIs' comparison of FTR (First Time Right) rates, how to keep / develop human creativity, and how to detail / ensure its differentiation helping business innovation as my goal. Are those principles useful to No-Code Exploration as well? At least, they are also applicable if to study the data-facts such as my Polar Flow records as a picture attached with this LinkedIn post - with multiple GenAIs as these FTR (First Time Right) Scores: 80/100 – MS Copilot & Kimi AI 55/100 – ChatGPT & Gemin AI Claude AI & Perplexity AI – not relevant: Claude AI Answer – failed as too general to have no details of this special case into the essay. Perplexity AI Answer – not possible to try due to the attachment as a paid service. Here is a GenAI example of the FTR Score as 80/100 (80% ? / if also interesting to what as 20% missed here?): Common Question to GenAI Options: As learning and applying Flow State, based on HRV for own domain creativity and productivity, it is important to keep a daily habit of studying Polar Flow records of HRV curves in the night and also expanding into earlier hours of rest time as much as virtual sleep - to learn much more insights! Here is an attached picture of such a case study with human wisdom quotes in it to help the learning of HRV changes and please write an essay with an attractive title as the outcome from this process. A better GenAI Answer (FTR score as 80/100): Unlocking the Secrets of Heart Rate Variability: A Journey to Enhanced Creativity and Productivity CONTINUE IN COMMENT #learningisfun #GenAI #HRV #GenAIcomparison

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Today I had the opportunity to be a speaker and a panelist at FICAN / ERN EURACANs seminar in Helsinki regarding rare cancers. In my speech I spoke about the rare cancerpatients challenges in healthcare and that rare cancerpatients usually get their diagnosis too late or in the beginning it also can be the wrong diagnos. The problem is also that the doctors and clinichans usually have too little knowledge about rare cancers and patients feels alone. In the paneldiscussion we talked about how to get a chapter about rare cancer in the upcoming cancerstrategy that Finland is now making. I pointed out that patients involvement in any field is necessary and useful. #euracan #rarecancers #harvinaisetsyövät #syöpä #rarecancer #cancerpatient #cancer #patientadvocate #fican

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Our shared objective is clear.✨Together, we empower startups to thrive.💪 Running a medtech startup can be challenging, but here's the good news. Today, Nordic Health Lab visited our MedTech Growth team Kristine Sylvest Brinks, Bolette Jacobsen and Christian Bygballe Haahr at DTU Science Park for a fruitful discussion, underscoring our commitment to bolstering support for medtech startups, particularly in the dynamic realm of healthcare invention. 💡 What is Nordic Health Lab?  Nordic Health Lab embodies a robust business model centered on empowering startups and SMEs to pitch to the healthcare sector, granting access to the healthcare ecosystem, facilitating match-making, and optimizing the testing process. This ethos perfectly aligns with our mission to nurture groundbreaking medtech startups. "In Nordic Health Lab, we see an opportunity to enhance our existing collaboration with DTU Science Park, a key player in the healthcare environment. The better we collaborate, the more value we can collectively create," Jacob Telcs emphasizes. By synergizing our efforts, we aim to provide unparalleled support to medtech startups precisely when they need it most. 🤝 Stay tuned for more updates as we continue this exciting journey of collaboration and growth! 🚀

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🚀 Let's connect in person! I will be representing our digital health startup, Targenta Ltd. at the Arctic15 event in #Helsinki on June 6-7! 🎉 💡 I'm looking forward to connecting with other participants to discuss the opportunities and challenges in medtech, pharma, and digital health. If you're attending and would like to chat about these topics, please feel free to message me. Let's share thoughts, gain new perspectives, and seek out synergies! 🗓️ My agenda includes several health-related sessions that I am particularly excited about: "The Future of Healthcare: Innovations in MedTech" "Digital Health Solutions for an Aging Population" "Pharma's Next Frontier: Digital Transformation" 🎤 Additionally, I absolutely love listening to great pitches! They inspire me and spark new ideas. Can't wait to hear some innovative pitches at the event. Let's make the most of this opportunity to learn, connect, and innovate together! See you at Arctic15! ❄️ #Arctic15 #DigitalHealth #MedTech #Pharma #Innovation #Networking #Healthcare #Startups #Entrepreneurship #Inspiration

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#RevaluingExpertise The next session of the day is about experimenting and interpreting workflows and interaction! Our researcher Dorthe Brogaard Kristensen start by discussing the implementation of AI in mammography screenings: the arrangement of human and machinic forms of expertise, the human assistance required by automated systems and the emerging frictions and challenges. The presentation tackles the complex reality encompassing the interpretations of clinical evidence, the skills of human experts, workflows, and institutional decision-making and management processes.

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🧠 The U.S United States Department of Defense has - once again - recognised the value of Medicortex Finland Oyj's ambitions to complete the development of an easy to use diagnostic device: "dedicated to improving the diagnostics, treatment and prevention of acute neurodegenerative conditions and is currently focused on developing a diagnostic kit for the detection of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)." 💰 "Once again" are the operative words. Founder and CEO, Adrian Harel, Ph.D. writes in the press release: “To my knowledge, we are the only company in Finland that has ever received three consecutive grants from the U.S. #DoD - we are very proud and privileged to be selected for such an important grant.” 🤕 Most readers will be aware that I have a modest shareholding in Medicortex Finland. That's partially due to close up and personal experience of the potential effects of a positive diagnosis of a short term #concussion or #headinjury hiding the fact that the patient may (also) have a Traumatic Brain Injury #TBI; essentially a misdiagnosis due to the lack of a diagnostic product. 🔬 At the moment, TBI is something which is very difficult to detect other than with expensive scans. Failure to detect a lesion could - indeed does - lead to complications; something Medicortex's diagnostic kit could mitigate. 👏 Congratulations to Dr Harel and his team on this third grant from the DoD. For those interested to learn more I have added the press-release details from Medicortex's website. There you'll be able to read up about the company, which seeks: "address a TBI point of care (POC) diagnostics market that is estimated to exceed €2 billion annually." 🔢 Stats: There are around 69 million TBI cases globally * ➢ 2.8 million in the US ** ➢ 2.5 million in Europe *** ➢ 0.6 million in Australia ➢ 0.5 million in Canada * Dewan et al. (2019) J Neurosurg 130: 1080-1097 ** Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) *** CENTER-TBI EU https://lnkd.in/eXP-Xezr

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#Finland 🇫🇮 is a global pioneer in smart health. Finland has an extremely efficient healthcare system and invests in new solutions that solve current and future healthcare needs. Finnish strengths are diverse, ranging from AI and sensors to mobile communications and new business models. 💡 One of the biggest strengths of the Finnish healthcare system is its forward-looking nature. Both public and private organizations invest in new ideas to meet current and future needs. The Finnish healthcare system is not isolated; it is international. Healthcare institutions and companies are eager to work with international partners to jointly develop new smart health solutions. 🌎 #FinnishHealthcare #SmartHealth #HealthTech #DigitalHealth #Innovation #Technology

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