In this newsletter you can read about:
- Delegation to Tel Aviv with focus on sustainable healthcare and smart, circular cities, 14-15 November
- Nordic sustainable healthcare workshop in Stockholm, 3rd October
- NCSH at the Upgraded Life Festival
- Training in sustainable healthcare, 18th November
- Five new members in the network from four different countries
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Join us for a delegation to Tel Aviv to increase business, knowledge and collaborations within sustainable healthcare solutions and smart, circular cities. This is an opportunity to contribute to the Nordic Prime minister initiative on how Nordic solutions can target the global challenges.
The interest for Nordic solutions within sustainability in Israel is very high, not at least when it comes to sustainable healthcare and circular solutions. Healthcare and cities are interlinked and solutions in either affects the other. We believe that solutions which target sustainable healthcare can be valuable for circular and smart cities, and vice versa. Companies and other organizations that are interested in the Israeli market and who have solutions related to healthcare or circular and smart cities can join the delegation and get valuable contacts and business. Solutions of interest is, among others, circular waste solutions, energy solutions, new materials, e-health, logistics, water monitoring & saving and ICT-solutions.
Participating organizations pay for their own travel and accommodation, but the venue, matchmaking, study tour etc are funded by the project.
This is a unique opportunity to go in to a new market or strengthen your business. You will get:
• Contact with relevant decision makers
• Business opportunities – finding R&D partners
• Knowledge about the Israeli market
• Unique insights to the Israeli health sector
• Valuable contacts from the Nordic countries
The event is organized by Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare and Afeka Institute of circular engineering and economy in collaboration with the Swedish embassy, the Danish embassy, the Finnish embassy and Upgraded. The event is funded by Nordic Innovation – joint Nordic events.
Registration:
Participation: Free of charge to participate, traveling companies pay and book their own travel and accomodation.
Information:
Location: Tel Aviv – further details will be announced
We are currently, together with a few members, writing a funding application regarding an energy efficiency project focusing on medtech and facility management. We aim to create a cross sector project group including partners from medtech, facility management and hospitals. Although overall energy consumption in hospital is decreasing, the use of machines leads to an increased energy use as well as problems with the working environment. In this project, the first step will include a mapping of machines suitable for an interface, how these machines currently are monitored by facility management, and what technical difficulties there are today.
If you want more information or take part in the project, please contact:
Linn Grundtman,
As a part of a pre-study funded by the Swedish Energy Agency with focus on internationalization of innovation clusters NCSH has signed letter if intents (LOI) with three international innovation arenas, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), C2DS (France/Germany) and Afeka academic college of engineering (Israel). The LOI states that we are aiming for collaboration in the field of energy- and climate smart healthcare, promote new solutions and find areas where new innovations are needed. We at NCSH are very proud and hoping for many joint projects and collaborations.
For more information please contact:
Daniel Eriksson -
Are your organisation a member in Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare? If so, don’t forget to apply for membership in our exclusive members club on Linkedin were you can share knowledge, get new contacts and learn stuff from other members in the group. To be approved as a member in the group your organisation needs to be a member or a collaborating partner to NCSH. Send us an e-mail or give us a call if you have any question:
Mail:
Phone: +46 40 606 55 80
You apply for membership here >>> (the group is only open for members and collaboration partners to NCSH)
We have been a bit slow putting out newsletters this spring. Due all amazing things happening at Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare we simply haven’t had the time. But here it is and it is packed with new projects, conferences and new members.
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Are you a member in NCSH? Don’t forget to apply for membership in our exclusive members club on Linkedin were you can share knowledge, get new contacts and learn stuff from other members.
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NCSH member and partner Politecnico di Torino hosting a conference this fall and are looking for great presentations in Sustainable Healthcare:
Politecnico di Torino and the Systemic Design Research Network are pleased to invite you to the upcoming 7th Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (www.rsd7.org) that will be held in Turin on October 24-26, 2018.
This year's conference organised by the Politecnico di Torino is focused on Challenging Complexity by Systemic Design towards Sustainability with the aim to promote an international and interdisciplinary debate on how Systemic Design-related disciplines can help our societies, economies and industrial systems to face the challenge of sustainability in complex environments.
There will be 6 tracks addressing different issues; one of those will specially focus on “Social care and health systems for sustainable living”, boosting the dialogue on sustainable innovations for our health systems.
Academics, professionals and industrial designers are welcomed to provide their view and take part in the conference.
Two types of contributions can be submitted:
1. Long abstracts. The selection process will be done on long abstracts (max. 1000 words) to be submitted by 15 May. We will invite authors to submit the full paper soon after the RSD7 Symposium.s.
2. Visualisation works. A special call invites students, designers and academics to submit visualisation works that will be part of the exhibition “Visualising complex systems”, concerning how design can help visualizing, explaining and navigating complexity. In this case, contributors should submit a short abstract (max. 350 words) together with 3-5 high-resolution images and any correlated links/website in case of interactive visualisation by 1 June.
You can find more information about deadlines and submissions here: http://www.rsd7.org/call-for-contributions/
We look forward to your valuable contributions to the RSD7 conference!
RSD7 Staff
NCSH has with funding from the Swedish Energy Agency conducted a survey and interviews with relevant stakeholders within energy efficient healthcare. The focus has been internationalization, both in terms of collaboration regarding innovation but also export. The report includes a number of conclusions that focus on both challenges that need to be addressed nationally and internationally.
Some of the challenges identified are:
• Home market: It is sometimes difficult for Swedish companies to get their first client and international customers expect the first client to be national.
• Many markets have too low demands when they procure, for example on energy efficiency, which means that Swedish innovations that could be best on the market can’t compete. We need to show international stakeholders whats solutions are on the market so the demands in procurment gets high enough for Swedish solutions.
• LCC: Both nationally and internationally there is too little focus on Life cycle costs.
• National export organizations in Sweden wants to focus on China, India, USA while the companies are mostly interested in the Nordics, Germany, Holland, UK and Europe in general.
• There is a need for joint platforms that can initiate and facilitate international collaborations.
The report is in Swedish with focus on the Swedish market. But the results are probably for the most part applicable for all Nordic countries and for the whole scope of Sustainable Healthcare.
Report: Hinderanalys - Internationalisering av energieffektiv sjukvård (Swedish) (pdf)
Examples on Swedish Energy Efficent Healthcare can be found here >>>
AMDR is the global trade association consisting of members of the commercial single-use device reprocessing and remanufacturing industry. AMDR represents regulated, commercial reprocessing, promotes reprocessing as an important healthcare strategy that helps hospitals and healthcare providers increase quality, reduce costs and improve patient care, and protects the interests of its members in regulation, legislation and standard-setting world-wide.
Having played a key role in the establishment of the reprocessing industry, AMDR continues to push the medical technology industry and lead the way for reprocessing to play a defining role in the evolution and utilization of new device technologies.
We are happy to welcome bioPmed to Nordic Center for Sustainable Helathcare!
bioPmed is an Italian no profit association involving around 90 different local actors all working in health care and health care related sectors. The cluster offers dedicated funding for research projects and feasibility studies, high value-added specialized services and international networks to support industry competitiveness and to favor the convergence of public and private investments towards common development paths. Below, they explain why they decided to join the network:
"We believe that Your approach is completely compatible with our strategic vision based on the 4P paradigm (prevention, prediction, personalization participation) of health care system. Sustainability is a key issue in working to maintain and increase actual quality of health services and we believe that we can learn from Nordic Center for Healthcare's best practices and methodologies"
Join us at the Upgraded Life Festival in Helsinki on May 31st to June 1st. Gathering 1200 + international key stakeholders from the health industry, the festival is the leading start-up driven health innovation event in the Nordic and Baltic region. With the mixed audience of startups, corporates, investors, healthcare professionals, academics and ecosystem partners, the festival connects the dots for a mutually benefiting system of all actors contributing to health exploring the holistic union of health and wellbeing. In the spotlight are themes such as AI, value-based care, sustainable healthcare, data in healthcare, personalized healthcare, digital health and many other!
Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare has the opportunity to assemble a session with focus on sustainable healthcare. During the sustainable healthcare session, you will get an introduction to the topic and its relevance to suppliers of healthcare solutions. You’ll also get to know Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare – an organization gathering stakeholders and knowledge of sustainable healthcare while working towards creating growth opportunities for its members. The session will also include a panel discussion on sustainable healthcare in the Nordics, future trends in the area and a discussion on how new or established healthcare organisations and suppliers can maximize their potential by offering sustainable solutions. For more information on this session, please contact us at
Follow the event on social media with the hashtag #ULFFI and @UpgradedFi, and join the Facebook event to see who else is going.
When: 31 May – 1 June 2018
Where: Academic Medical Center Helsinki Haartmaninkatu 8, Helsinki
More information: www.upgradedlifefestival.com
Questions? Contact
Members in the Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare will have a 10 % discount on the 2-day ticket. Use the code Nordic_Friends_ULF18 to register as a member in NCSH.
Welcome to a Nordic sustainable healthcare workshop in Reykjavik!
On April 17th, Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare invites members and other stakeholders to a network meeting in Iceland. The meeting will be held in collaboration with Iceland University Hospital, Landspítali, and Promotion Iceland.
During the meeting we'll get the opportunity to listen to presentations from healthcare providers, suppliers of sustainable solutions and other actors. We'll also get the chance to join a study tour of the hospital where we'll get to experience in first hand why Landspítali won the Nordic Sustainable Healthcare Award in 2017. The meeting will serve as a hearing to gather innovations, cases and strongholds to be included in the Nordic White Paper on Sustainable Healthcare. The white paper is part of NCSH project funded by Nordic Innovation. See the agenda below.
This meeting is a chance to get new contacts, present new innovations, get more knowledge and take part in creating and influence the Nordic White Paper on Sustainable Healthcare.
When: April 17th, 2018
Where: Landspítali Univeristy Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
For whom: Members and partners to NCSH as well as other stakeholders to sustainable healthcare
Registration:
As a member in NCSH or another Nordic health export taskforce organisation you have the opportunity to give a presentation during the day. Please note it’s first come – first served. If you are interested, please contact us!
Agenda
9.30 Welcome coffee
- Welcome to Landspitali, a presentation of the hospital
- Creating a more sustainable Healthcare– Daniel Eriksson, NCSH
- Focus on Iceland and local sustainable solutions - Andri Marteinsson, Promote Iceland
- Green projects at Landspitali - Hulda Steingrímsdóttir
- Study tour at Landspitali
12.15 Lunch
- Sustainability at Oslo University Hospital - Tore Havellen, Oslo Universitetssykehus
- Sustainable Healthcare, a Nordic Stronghold - Nordic Innovation
- Company presentations on sustainable solutions – Members in NCSH
- New buildings at Landspitali - BREEAM
- Workshop: future green Nordic hospitals – creating a Nordic White Paper!
17.00 End
We are more than happy to welcome Upgraded to the network!
"Upgraded is a non-profit association for health & wellbeing startups in Finland.
Our goal is to make sure that startup innovations have an established role in the society as a source of health and wellbeing solutions. We help startups stand out by making their solutions visible and finding the right connections. No good health innovation should be lost due to the lack of knowledge about it.
We are in the business of building bridges. Startups are a part of a bigger puzzle, and we want to build the bridges between the different pieces of startups, corporates, public sector & universities. The industry thrives on cooperation and everyone will reach their goals quicker when working together.
We are also the organisers of the premier startup-driven health innovation event in the Nordics – Upgraded Life Festival. The fifth event will take place on 31st May – 1st June, 2018."
For the second year in a row, the Nordic Conference for Sustainable Healthcare awards its inaugural prizes to three outstanding actors.
Malin Emmoth, SWT Developement, Anna Teghammar, Västra Göstalandsregionen and Magnus Clarin, OCO Nordic
Last year’s winners were Paxxo; Pharem Biotech and Uppsala University Hospital and Landspítali University Hospital Iceland. The winner this year are listed below:
• Västra Götalandsregionen - Sustainable Healthcare Organiser of the Year
VGR are frontrunners in energy efficiency, resource management and much more. IN VGR is always on the cutting edge!
• SWT Developement, Halmstad University, Västra Götalandsregionen, Södra - Sustainable Healthcare Innovation of the Year
A circular material for healthcare applications using raw materials from the woods rather than plastics.
• OCO Nordic - Sustainable Healthcare Company of the Year
OCO Nordic uses dry ice to clean ventilation systems and creating a better indoor environment and lower the risk for cross-contagion, all while optimizing the energy efficiency of the systems!
Congratulations to your well-deserved award!
We had a fantastic day at the second Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare in Stockholm last week!
The conference was held in collaboration with Aktuell Hållbarhet and joined together speakers and participants from over 10 countries with interest in creating a more sustainable healthcare. This year’s focus lay on areas such as, Tools for sustainable construction and maintenance of healthcare buildings, International knowledge from sustainable health and care systems, procurement as a sustainability tool and antibiotic resistance.
Read more about topics and speakers here >>
Read the presentations here >>
During the day we got the chance to listen to many interesting presentations and discussion both on the main stage and during the break-out sessions. For the second time we also got to hand out awards to three outstanding actors for their work in making the healthcare more sustainable. We would like to especially congratulate NCSH members OCO Nordic – this year’s company in sustainable healthcare!
We are very happy for the interest we received and the opportunity to meet and discuss with so many interesting people and organisations. We are already looking forward to the conference next year!
Nästa vecka, den 15 februari, är det åter dags för Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare i Stockholm. För andra gången delar organisationerna bakom konferensen, Aktuell Hållbarhet och Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare, ut priser till tre aktörer som förtjänar extra uppmärksamhet. Här är årets nomineringar.
Årets organisatör av hållbar sjukvård:
Årets företag inom hållbar sjukvård:
Årets innovation inom hållbar sjukvård:
Förra årets vinare var Paxxo, Pharem Biotech och Uppsala University Hospital samt Landspítali University Hospital Iceland. Vilka tar årets priser?
Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare som samlar aktörer från hela hälso- och sjukvården för att diskutera lösningarna för framtidens hållbara sjukvård. Möt talare på både internationell och nationell nivå som har insikt i möjligheterna att använda sjukvårdens resurser så att de lever upp till hållbarhetskraven, oavsett om det gäller organisation, resurshantering, byggande, upphandlingsfrågor, leverantörer eller medarbetare.
Läs mer om Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare och anmäl dig här >>
The Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare is happy to welcome Act.Global Sweden AB to our network. The Swedish clean-tech company has solutions to create a low-bacteria environment in healthcare facilities. We let them introduce themselves below:
"According to SKL (Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting) there was 65.000 health related infections (HRI) during 2016 and among them 1500 deaths, in the Swedish healthcare system! The costs for additional nursing time du to HRI (VRI in Swedish) is calculated to be 6.5 billion SEK annually!
Welcome to a new and much more sustainable way of maintaining a high hygienic level at hospitals and other healthcare facilities. The ACT Solution contains of ACT Clean Coat®, ACT Protection and ACT ECA System. These work together and separately with documented substantial savings, both in terms of cleaning efforts, and in the use of harsh detergents – but most importantly, faster patient recovery time and a significant drop in Healthcare Associated Infections. The ACT Solution is a long lasting, 12 months and more, and self-disinfectant method. By making most surfaces and staff an active player in the elimination of bacteria, virus, mould and other infectious sources we reach new levels of hygiene."
Welcome to the leading conference and meeting place in the Nordics for sustainable healthcare
- 15 February, Stockholm
Join us on February 15th at the Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare. Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare and Aktuell Hållbarhet once again launches the conference, which will reunite stakeholders of the healthcare sector for a discussion around challenges that follow the increased requirements to organisations’ environmental impacts and sustainability performance – and solutions to these challenges.
This time, we will discuss how suppliers with sustainable solutions reach their markets. We will present a unique survey that shows what expectations suppliers have from their customers – big healthcare institutions. In the survey, representatives from these institutions provided feedback to suppliers’ questions and discussed different angles of healthcare procurement.
Best of all? Members in NCSH have a huge discount on the participants fee! Instead of 4 900 SEK, our members only pay 3 500 SEK excl. VAT. Members in NCSH can sign up using this link:
Sign up as a member in NCSH for 1 400 SEK discount
(Regular price 4 900 SEK excl. VAT)
From the programme:
- How suppliers of sustainable products are met
- Sustainability at Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest care consortiums in the world
- Tools for sustainable building and management of hospitals
- International experiences of sustainable healthcare
- How procurement can add to your organisations sustainability work
- Antibiotic resistence - how the healthcare should handle this momentous issue
For information on the speakers and the full programme, click here >>
Not a member yet?
To check out the conference programme and sign up as a non-member, click here >>
We are happy to begin the new year with announcing a new member in the network - Voxeyes.
Voxeyes is remote healthcare at its best. Sustainable and available for everyone, no matter which patient group you belong to. As technology is advancing, more and more alternatives are being created for patients, however no option today is truly inclusive and available for all target groups. It was for this reason that Tudorclinic chose, together with T-Meeting, to create Voxeyes, where technology is adapted for the user and not the other way around.
If you are speech impaired, deaf, hearing impaired, deaf-blind or lack IT-knowledge, there is no remote healthcare solution today which enables direct communication. Voxeyes is built in unity with tried and tested partners which understood that large patient groups today were being neglected in the wave of new solutions for remote healthcare/online healthcare. This is why Voxeyes supports all patient groups!
It's been a very busy year at Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare! We've hosted a range of activities to connect stakeholders and generate collaboration and ideas for our members as well as increase awareness around the subject. And it seems to be working! Sustainable healthcare seem to be on the agenda for more organisations than ever and we are now close to 70 members!
Below you can read more on some of the activites held during 2017 within the network:
- Launched the successful conference, Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare, in partnership with Aktuell Hållbarhet,
- Conducted serveral workshops and seminars,
- Initiated and completed projects, such as Green Procurement of Hospital Textiles, Innovation cluster for energy efficient healthcare, and Internationalisation of innovation clusters,
- Arranged several study visits at hospitals,
- Hosted a panel debate at Alemdalen on the topic "How do we make the healthcare sector more sustainable and create business opportunities at the same time?",
- Conducted trainings in sustainable healthcare,
- Initiated the Nordic Procurement Network for Sustainable Healthcare,
- Interview in the Swedish Science Radio (Vetenskapsradion) on the topic "How to make the healthcare more environmental friendly"
We would like to say thank you to all our our members and partners! We look forward to 2018 and all opportunities that it brings and we hope to continue the close collaboration with all of you. We've already updated our calendar with some exciting activities for 2018. Make sure to stay updated by checking our calendar now and then, or sign up to our newsletter to get news on our activites and projects straight to you mailbox.
Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare
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Per Albin Hanssons väg 41
205 12 Malmö
Sweden
Eager to know more about the Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare and what we can offer you?
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