Our vision
Knowledge and solutions that lifts the digital healthcare of the future
Our values
We contribute to emphasizing the user perspective so that solutions and services are:
- Accessible and inclusive
- Preventive, health-promoting and oriented towards coping with life
- Useful, efficient and sound
Strategic goals
The Centre for e-health will be further developed as an interdisciplinary research environment with a professionally interesting and socially shared environment. The centre will be a nationally leading and internationally recognized research centre. We will collaborate both internally with other professional environments at the university, and externally with other research environments, the health services, business and user environments.
Strategic objectives 2022-2024
- Strengthen and anchor the interdisciplinary collaboration at the Centre
- Strengthen research quality
- Strengthen cooperation and visibility in the e-health field
- Strengthen cooperation and networks regionally, nationally and internationally
- Strengthen and highlight research and innovation work anchored in the I4Health building
- Establish us as a permanent priority research centre at UiA
- Establish ourselves as a consultation body and be active in national arenas within strategic plans and legal regulations in the e-health field
Strategic focus areas:
User participation in development and co-creation
The centre’s aim is to promote a focus on user participation in development and co-creation. Our aim is for the center to be recognized for its expertise in user-centred co-creation and for I4Health to be a preferred arena for design, development, testing and evaluation of digital healthcare services and healthcare technologies. In addition, we want to contribute to ensuring that marginalized groups, who are rarely included, are involved in design and development processes and that technology is developed based on needs, also outside the traditional target groups.
In the period 2022-2024, we will:
- Build and spread knowledge about user participation and co-creation in e-health
- Contribute to further developing and using the facilities in the I4Health building (exhibition arena, test laboratories and digital infrastructure)
- Initiate and run research activities that build on co-creation with residents and actors within the public and private sector
- Through co-creation, contribute to the design, development and evaluation of new health technologies and solutions
Digital healthcare services
Digital solutions can contribute to self-help and coping with life, enable new types of follow-up and home services and contribute to comprehensive and seamless healthcare services. Through our research, we will contribute to user-centred development, introduction and evaluation of digital healthcare services.
In the period 2022-2024, we will research:
- How digital solutions can help improve coping with one's own health and life situation
- How digital solutions can contribute to a sustainable society both from an environmental perspective and in light of demographic developments
- How digital solutions can contribute to safe and effective follow-up and interaction between the patient/user and the healthcare personnel involved
- How digital solutions create new legal challenges when interpreting and applying national and international patient and user rights
- What ethical issues arise when healthcare services are digitalised
New technologies for health, coping and learning
New technologies, such as robotics, sensor networks and virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR), are entering the healthcare sector. The Centre for e-health will contribute to user-centred, needs-driven and ethically responsible development and introduction of these new technologies.
In the period 2022-2024, we will research:
- Technologies and solutions that support Active Daily Living (ADL), including robotic technology that offers physical assistance
- Solutions for remote and home monitoring of activity and health status that support citizens' autonomy.
- New solutions for coping with life, as well as raising the competence of healthcare personnel using virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR)
Better use of health data
Better use of health data can contribute to more personal adapted healthcare services, for more learning in the healthcare service and for better communication with the population about health topics. The Centre for e-health wants to contribute to user focus by building knowledge about the need for, understanding of and application of health data and health information among health personnel, patients and the general population.
In the period 2022-2024, we will research:
- How data analysis and data visualization can be used in a learning service
- How health data can be used to inform, engage and motivate lifestyle change
- How to develop a holistic understanding of data quality at all stages
- How to develop processes and solutions for ethical, safe, legal, inclusive, creative and efficient use of health data for use in communication and learning
- Data literacy among healthcare personnel and in the population