Test Bed Facilities for Health Innovation Testbeds as ...€¦ · Testbeds as enabling digitalization and innovation for health Glen Koskela 20.10.2015 Oulu Fujitsu Fellow CTO Nordic

Testbeds as enabling digitalization andinnovation for health

Glen Koskela 20.10.2015 OuluFujitsu FellowCTO Nordic

Test Bed Facilities for Health Innovation

Copyright 2015 FUJITSU

Digitalization = quality, efficiency, experience

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What factors, enabled by digitalization, drive transformation in healthcare?

Does it differ depending on how it is organized, financed, provided– or how innovation and development is organized?

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Prevention

Data analytics

Point of care

Digital hospital

Treatment

Connected health

Assisted living

Home care

Wellbeing

Activity monitoring


Digital healthcare services

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Healthcare services do not need a digitalstrategy but a new patient journey strategywhere digital technologies play a major role

Access to testbeds candrive innovation andincrease the likelihoodof a successfulintroduction of a newdigital solutions


Platform practices for innovation

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Prototyping

Field trials

Living labs

Marketpilots

Societalpilots

Testbeds

Focus: from testing to design

Maturity: from low to high


Testbeds as a catalyst for digital solutions

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Active in stimulating innovation with the public sector,the business and with opening up academic research

A place where citizens, government agencies,municipalities, IT-suppliers and researchers can worktogether in a common ecosystem of public innovation

Experimentation platforms [for large developmentprojects] deployed and tested in an environment thatresembles real-world conditions

Demonstrate new technologies to create new products &services, and show how new technologies can be usefullydeployed

They fuel innovative ideas, and generate an appreciableand measurable impact on their market


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Criteria for participation

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Service system design and testing, Co-validation, Resources to build on,Co-operation, Testbed, Ecosystem, Demonstrator, Experiments andvalidations, Collaborative usage, Real process environment, Funding,Piloting, Grand challenge, Integration platform for a given area/areas,…

Expertise and ability to contributetechnical components and/or qualifiedhuman resources to work as a part ofthe ecosystem to execute specific worktasks related to digitalization ofhealthcare

The small print:Openness regarding results as wellas partnershipPublic involvement to activelysupport and controlCommercial maturity, closeness tomarket introductionScope of stakeholders fromdifferent levels in the value chain


Expectations

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As a Sponsor:

Help prioritize andaccelerate developmentof importance to yourorganization andcustomers.

Validates the willingnessof industry to addressspecific issues requiringnew solutions.

Help align industry tocooperatively advancesolutions to meetspecific business needs.

As an Actor/Participant:

Build early knowledge and experiencewith developing solutions.

Be among the first to make newsolutions available in the marketplace.

Cooperatively develop workablesolutions in 4-6 months vice years for

traditional processes.

Gain acknowledgement of and visibilitywith organizations sponsoring similar

initiative requirements.

Develop and validate emergingsolutions in the context of sponsor

business cases and scenarios.

Call for participationprocess must prove to

produce results!


There is a new New Atlantis rising? Stay realistic.

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There is a new New Atlantis rising from the sea, purported tosupport the future of science, health, and public services

Public–private–civic partnershipin which stakeholders co-create…


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Testbeds can create healthy innovation ecosystems

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Coupling the resources available in the knowledgeeconomy with those available in the commercial economy,as some fraction of profits in the commercial economy

Ecosystem needs to close the loop betweenR&D investments through innovations that

increase profits in the commercial economyResources = actors, entities, and intangibles


Testbeds can serve as useful incubators

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In the past few years a necessity has emerged to experiment technologies, services, etc. in a morerealistic environment, leading to the creation of innovation spaces where…

Actors can execute theirtrials, collect data and furtherimprove their solutions

Sponsor can assess organizational ROIrelated to efficiency and effectiveness

gains associated with a solution


Furthering the advancement of healthcare

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Drug Discovery Heart Simulator HumanBridge

Drastically shorteningefficacy testing times

for new drugs

Replicating myocardialcells to simulate the organ,

aiming to find newtreatment methods

Enabling safe, qualityhealthcare by sharing

medical records


Typical testbed candidate

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Early detection ofirregularities in motorfunctions using a sensorysmart house

To identify risks from therelationships between dailyroutines and illnesses tosupport independentlifestyles

Working towards reducingreadmission to hospital

Ability to quantify subtle changes Easy to compare observations over timeContinuous assessment Patient’s natural behaviourReal time / immediate Semi-automated

Inform clinical decision-making / personalized intervention


Material effects?

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Your need, your direction; future organization and operation

Large variations in how the Nordic countries organize development and testing ofinnovative ideas in health and welfare (different responsibilities, organizationalstructures and practical facilities) – there are over 51 testbeds already…

Testbeds need to be built

They need to be maintained

They consume resources & time

They are expensive to scale

They become obsolete quickly


Towards the ’actually existing’ digital health

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The problem with testbeds is… that they are testbeds

Testbed must aim to generate an appreciable and measurable impact on its market.

What is the service design and deployment process after testbed?Is there an actual intention to deploy?

Ability to provide guidanceand (re)orient the whole

healthcare sector toinnovative new solutions!


OuluHealth co-creation testbed

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√ Access to testbed building blocks

√ Close to reality platform environment

√ Innovation PoCs to accelerate opportunities

√ Early stage and IPR governance

√ Identification of patient process

√ Living lab for functional implementation

√ Research conducted by university on a given topic

√ Commercial initiatives in parallel


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Test Bed Facilities for Health Innovation Testbeds as ...€¦ · Testbeds as enabling digitalization and innovation for health Glen Koskela 20.10.2015 Oulu Fujitsu Fellow CTO Nordic