Admist increasing healthcare costs, a shrinking tax base to fund healthcare, an aging population that will demand more health services, continuity of care is a proposed model to make healthcare more efficiently able to cope with the future. Underpinning continuity of care is the continuity of knowledge and information and how it is structured.
This blog entry summarises findings concerning healthcare reform “SOTE” and a new General Practitioner model. The short text provides reasons for both changes introduced by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health & Finnish Government highlighting its positive and negative implications. Ultimately, an uncomfortable, speculative question emerges: Might these changes neglect doctors’ well-being?
The first blog of the Digitalization and Kanta Workstream presents an initial understanding of Finland’s and international digital healthcare services through desktop research. The importance of initiative for both the users and the providers, the inclusiveness for ageing groups in digitalization, and the focus of Kanta as a centralization platform is addressed.
In our project, we analyze Finland’s elderly health and social care system, mapping key actors, services, and data flows. With the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and Kela, we investigate how patient information is managed, where gaps exist, and how better information sharing could enhance elderly care.
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. … Read more
Our group identified excessive administrative burdens on Finland’s public healthcare professionals as a major obstacle to quality of care for patients. We beleive that reintroducing medical assistants to handle non-medical tasks should recuduce this obstacle. However, to do so, we have to convince our partners of the necessity and cost-efficiency of this reinstatement by speaking their language.
“How did you go from improving patient feedback to a co-innovation programme?” This blog post reflects on our journey to our final proposal. Inspired by Michael Porter’s value-based care and Nesta’s Creative Councils case, we proposed a programme to cultivate and share follow-up practices nationwide.
How do we shift from fragmented healthcare to cohesive, continuous care? This blog post provides a concluding recap of our research and ideation process and introduces our final proposal: an adaptive and evolving action plan with three levels of intervention.
The third blog post from group 2A is focused on the research process of our project on continuity of care in primary healthcare. This project has been developed in collaboration with Kela and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. The blog post showcases the current process of the project and discusses more deeply the process of the vision and entry points.
In this blog post, we explore what we can learn from the unexpected similarities between a design intervention in the Finnish healthcare system and the ‘rules & dynamics’ of relationships.