The programme’s projects are concentrated on improving health care in the following key areas: advancing paper-free health care and seamless services, decentralised health services and the internationalisation of health care.
Paper-free health care and seamless services
Paper-free health care means better use of technology for customers, faster and more effective service as well as more secure acquisition and management of data.
Seamless services means basic and specialised health care services that operate in a unified manner, allowing the customer to select and receive needed services flexibly, quickly and reliably.
The programme is involved in many paper-free health care and seamless services conversion processes and cooperative projects aimed at improving the customer’s status as a user of health care services.
Decentralised health services
The decentralised health service projects are aimed at concentrating advanced specialised health care services at few centres. This is being done with an eye to bringing together the best know-how, service access and execution as well as the client-producer and public-private partnership principles.
Internationalisation
Through projects aimed at the internationalisation of Finnish health care, new international best practices are brought in and adapted to the Finnish health care system. The internationalisation of Finnish know-how is also an important part of these projects’ operations.
The programme operates in cooperation with Tekes (the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation) on projects that seek new business opportunities for Finnish health care know-how, particularly in Japan and the USA.