Project Description
The Finnish healthcare system is burdened by long lines and unequal access to care, with rising costs and a need for improvement. Kela, the national social insurance institution, is exploring a revised patient reimbursement model that aims to encourage continuity of care, improve availability and equal access to healthcare services, and reduce costs. Incentives could be a key component of this model. The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs is also exploring a new “Personal Doctor” (Omalääkäri) model used in other countries. The success of these initiatives will require collaboration and changes at different levels, including new funding mechanisms and approaches to testing and implementation.
The main questions to address are:
- How do different actors involved (doctors, customers, officials) perceive what is the ideal outcome? What are the barriers?
- What incentives will create the desired behaviours? How should the reimbursement model work to support the right behaviours?
Read more about the process in the blogs!
- The incessant use of question marks
- Investigating Initial Pathways: Enhancing Continuity
- Finding a Common Vision and Entry Points: “The struggle to comprehend the basic starting point.”
- Reinstating for the Better
- Work in Progress…
- Breaking the Vicious Cycle
- Relationship advice or healthcare design intervention?
- Governments as investors, risk-takers and innovators
- Beyond Appointments: The Lifelong Commitment to Health
- In the driver’s seat of our health – Between patient and customer
- The journey towards finding the solution
- From Sick Care to Healthcare
This project was showcased during the 2024 Final Show.
Student Proposals
Care for Care
project by Atte Kuparinen, Beste Polatkal, Emma Prost and Thekla Weißkopf
Final report (PDF)
Presentation slides (PDF)
Video of presentation (15 min)
Co-Innovate. Fostering follow-up culture in Finnish healthcare
project by Bhairavi Balasubramanian, David Bertl Sofia Correia and Tuomas Laakkonen
Final report (PDF)
Presentation slides (PDF)
Video of presentation (15 min)
From Sickcare to Healthcare
project by Robert Hartmann, Heidi Mäkitalo, Devayani Mohanraj and Sofia Pascolo
Final report (PDF)
Presentation slides (PDF)
Video of presentation (15 min)