{"id":1821,"date":"2023-10-03T09:35:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T07:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ehin.no\/2023\/?post_type=session&p=1821"},"modified":"2024-01-16T14:10:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:10:56","slug":"rom-a5-3","status":"publish","type":"session","link":"https:\/\/ehin.no\/2023\/en\/sessions\/rom-a5-3\/","title":{"rendered":"PROTECT at EHiN 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collaboration between HWT companies and researchers: What can we do together?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Health and welfare technology (HWT) covers a wide sphere of different appliances and solutions, impacting diverse users\u2019 lives, care work and its processes, as well as societies. This future-oriented workshop focuses on collaboration between researchers and HWT companies (developers and suppliers). HWT companies\u2019 voices are heard and challenges and opportunities of HWT use discussed, with a view of creating a shared mission of HWT use.<\/p>\n

The session departs from the results of recent Nordic research projects, notably the PROTECT project\u2019s series of participatory workshops that involved nearly 200 Nordic researchers and stakeholders in 2021\u20132023. The main challenges and knowledge needs were identified at three levels: (1) older age clients\/patients and people with disabilities and their informal caregivers (micro level); (2) professional caregivers and organizations (meso level); and (3) the societal (macro level). Recommendations were produced for decisionmakers (link:\u00a0Proactive health and welfare\u00a0technology for Nordic users and societies \u2013 A\u00a0policy brief<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Understanding the dynamics between these three levels is essential to improve policy interventions and innovations to enhance HWT use, and HWT companies have an important role to play in\u00a0contributing to and utilizing such understanding.<\/p>\n