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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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

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:

•  Stockholms Läns Landsting – Under många år har SLL tagit nationell ledning kring hållbar sjukvård i Sverige och därmed i många fall även en global ledning.
•  Oslo Universitetssjukhus – Nordens största sjukhus visar musklerna även inom hållbarhetsområdet. Sjukhuset letar ständigt efter nya innovationer och samarbeten.
•  Västra Götalandsregionen – Framåtskridande inom energieffektivisering, resursförbrukning och mycket mer. I Västra Götalandsregionen händer alltid saker som ligger i framkant.

Årets företag inom hållbar sjukvård:

•  OCO Nordic – Rengöring med torris (frusen CO₂) leder till bättre inomhusklimat, mindre smittspridning och stora energibesparingar.
•  Nora – Reducerar ett av de sista områdena i sjukvården där PVC fortfarande finns kvar. Med PVC-fria lösningar golvar de konkurrenterna.
•  White – En global spelare med nordiskt ursprung som skapat världsrykte för nordisk hållbar sjukvårdsdesign.

Årets innovation inom hållbar sjukvård:

•  Södra, Region Halland, VGR och Högskolan i Halmstad, SWT Development – Durapulp är nytt cirkulärt material i sjukvården. Med skogsråvara istället för plast i sjukvårdsapplikationer ser vi stor potential för det nya materialet.
•  ACT.Global – Med Titandioxid skapas bakteriereducerande vårdrum och detta med låg miljöpåverkan.
•  Voxeyes – Sjukvård via video med tillgänglighet för alla patientgrupper och som dessutom har minskade transporter som bonus.

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 >>