Centre for Health & Centre for Health & TechnologyTechnology

Maritta Perälä-Heape, PhDDirector, CHT

Trends and opportunities Trends and opportunities in health carein health care

Role of citizens: Individualized healthcare From disease treatment to health promotion Diagnostics from chronic disease analysis towards

health monitoring and life style change Social media, games… Independent living ”Connected health”: Towards mobile and ubiquitous

health care Emergency of completely new businesses, new

business models Next generation of wireless solutions in health care

(wireless monitoring, future home & future hospital)

Future health technologies

High potential for applications in promotingwellbeing and health

Oulu Innovation Alliance Oulu Innovation Alliance (OIA)(OIA) The ultimate target of the Oulu Innovation

Alliance agreement is to keep Oulu as an internationally acknowledged center for innovation an to build national and international networks of collaboration

The OIA founding partners have committed1. To focus their operations, education, research and

development activities on agreed innovation areas.2. To invest in the development of agreed infrastructures.3. To develop and test innovation systems and processes to

accelerate the development of new business The focus areas are Internet research, printed electronics &

optical measurement technologies, global business & economies, environment and healthcare sectors.

Where health and technology Where health and technology intersect - the next opportunityintersect - the next opportunity Centre for Health and Technology (CHT) creates life

science/ICT-driven growth opportunities by combining cutting-edge research and innovations with agile new business creation.

CHT’s role is to combine the best ideas, people and resources from different fields of industries and science for co-creation of next generation health technologies, appliances and services.

CHT projects are multi-disciplinary with the main focus is in technology but closely linked with application development, usability and social sciences.

Centre for Health & TechnologyCentre for Health & Technology

Develops innovation processesIdentifies regional innovation potential Recognizes co-operational multi-

disciplinary opportunitiesFollows actively trends and builds

strong project portfolio Ensures the communication/crosstalk

between the science and industry/health care providers

Facilitates dynamic development, experimenting and piloting

University of Oulu Oulu University of Applied Sciences City of Oulu – BusinessOulu; Social and Health

care services VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland Technopolis Plc Northern Ostrobothnia Hospital District Other important interest groups include project

partners, innovators, companies and business developers.

Partners and co-operationPartners and co-operation

To build strong RDI project portfolio to attract funding> thematic

issues and priorities Strategic cooperation with global networks Dynamic innovation process of multi-disciplinary RDI Globally advanced RDI environment and infrastructure for

piloting

CHT Focus Areas: Wireless health monitoring Genes and lifestyle Individualized healthcare

CHT core activities: CHT core activities:

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Focus Areas•Wireless health monitoring•Genes and lifestyle•Individualized healthcare

Focus Areas•Wireless health monitoring•Genes and lifestyle•Individualized healthcare

PilotingPiloting

Centre for Health & TechnologyCentre for Health & Technology

Innovation processInnovation process

- Consumers- Municipals- Hospitals- Health centres- Insurance companies Training & Publications

Inter&-national project co-operation

SolutionsInnovations

Start-upsBusiness development

- Remote monitoring- Health training- Feedback systems- Etc.

- Existing companies- New companies-Trends-Invest in

Wireless Health Monitoring Wireless Health Monitoring Combines top level technological and medical expertise

in Oulu area◦ Broad existing project portfolio and cooperation in academia and

companies◦ New project ideas on health promotion, aging, dignostics, methods

for sensoring and monitoring, imaging, wireless monitoring, wireless hospital, international cooperation

Comprehensive technology platform◦ Smart sensors and intelligent clothes, body area networks (IEEE

802.15.6 standard), Positioning technologies, database and server systems, data and network security, 3D Internet

Individualized healthcare applications◦ Metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes,

osteoporosis, neurodegenerative diseases, aging◦ Remote monitoring and diagnostics, Health promotion

From basic research to field tests and end-user applications◦ Indoor Living Labs ◦ Outdoor Living Labs

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Individualized Healthcare-Individualized Healthcare-Intelligent Piloting EnvironmentIntelligent Piloting Environment

COMPREHENSIVE Health and Wellness Management for Individuals Test User Community Creation of global test user profile bank network for testing applications and services

Unique life-long cohort study for wellness and health Data bank covering generation 1966 born in Northern Finland Pregnancy, prenatal, childhood, puberty and adulthood data

Personalized medicine (genes and life style) Epigenomics for profiling genome and gene activity in health, wellness and disease Printing technologies in low-cost high-volume consumer diagnostics

Social and motivating innovations Engagement of web and mobile services

International co-operationInternational co-operationEnhancing international co-operation

between innovation (research & business driven) clusters in areas or topics of common interest

Improving and sharing RDI infrastuructures (transnational piloting, testing, and/or innovation camp)

Exploring opportunities for financing of joint projects

Enhancing researcher/professor mobility actions in areas of common interest