Continuity of Knowledge

Project descriptions

Continuity of Care is an ongoing, multiyear collaboration between Kela, the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, and Aalto’s Design for Government (DfG) course. The project will build upon last year’s collaboration focused on the Omalääkäri, or “Personal Doctor” service delivery concept. The Finnish healthcare system is burdened by long lines and unequal access to care, with rising costs and a need for improvement. To explore possible interventions, this year’s work focuses on finding principles and insights on how “Continuity of Knowledge” can support a continuity of care model across care organisations and provide more effective value-based healthcare for +65 demographic groups living in Finland.

The main questions to address are:

• What are the Ministry’s agendas and understanding of Biodiversity?
• How can VNK support a policy coherence model?
• What tools are needed to sustain policy coherence and collaborative practices at all levels of public administration?

Read more about the process in the blogs!

• From Data to Dialogue: Reimagining Kanta for Care
• Shifting care through narrative: Refocusing on human connection
• Linear Minds, Nonlinear Care: Human-Centered Continuity in Finnish Healthcare
• Whose Perspective Is the Human Perspective?
• Beyond Metrics: Reinforcing Human-Centered Ageing
• Bridging Healthcare Gaps: The Role of Social Workers in Continuity of Knowledge
• Design & Healthcare Reform: How Does One Even Get Started?
• Happy patients, not so-happy doctors?
• Fumbling for a way forward to digitalization: Care – Digitalization and Kanta
• The First Page of our Elderly Care Notebook

Student proposals

Bridges of Care

Project by Takashige Doi, Joni Lappalainen, Francesca Martini, Paola Rapino, Huang Tzu-Tai

Final Report 
Presentation slides
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Preventative Care

Project by ChiYing Chu, Ronja Chydenius, Marta Ligaj, Yuchen Tang, Yue Yu

Final Report 
Presentation slides
Video of presentation (15min)