A new digital innovation and learning environment for the healthcare sector is being built in Oulu. The goal is to improve the quality of healthcare and accelerate the development of new products and services in Northern Ostrobothnia.
What’s this all about?
Diak Oulu Health Hub brings together technology companies, healthcare providers, and education and research organizations to develop new digital solutions for health. In this development environment, technologies that make services smoother, safer, and more efficient can be co-created, tested and piloted. At the same time, it serves as a learning environment for exploring and designing new educational solutions.
For whom?
The Hub serves:
- companies developing and testing new digital solutions
- stakeholders in healthcare and municipal services
- education and research organizations looking for a learning and development environment
- indirectly, local residents who benefit from higher-quality and safer services
What are we aiming for?
- Cross-sector collaboration that accelerates innovation in healthcare
- Hands-on opportunities for professionals and students to develop future skills and digital solutions
- Better opportunities for companies to innovate and grow their businesses
- New educational solutions that utilize digital learning environments
- A platform for developing new digital solutions that improve healthcare quality and patient safety
- A sustainable operating model that strengthens the region’s digital health ecosystem
For companies
Heading towards digital healthcare?
Do you want to explore your product idea, receive feedback on usability, or clarify your direction in the healthcare sector?
Free collaboration with Diak Oulu Health Hub for North Ostrobothnia
businesses:
- Discovery Meeting: We will meet to review the current status and
development goals of your company’s digital product.Together, we will explore
your product development goals, usability, and opportunities within healthcare
operating environments. - Product Demonstration and Trials with Students: Bring your product
into the hands of future healthcare professionals. We organize demonstrations
and trial sessions with nursing students in learning and simulation
environments. You will gain fresh insights, practical feedback, and new ideas on
your product’s usability and functionality from a nursing perspective.
Planning to start a business?
Get in touch and explore your idea’s potential in healthcare.
Learn about the service and our experts in this brochure (pdf).
Reserve a meeting time from this link.
Contacts: project manager heidi.hintsala@diak.oulu.fi.
Our specialists
Marjut Ikonen, healthcare (M.H.Sc., RN, Senior Lecturer)
Clinical Nursing Education, Intensive & Acute Care, Internal Medicine, Simulation, RDI
Joni Räisänen, ICT
Technical Support & Digital Environments
Heidi Hintsala, health technology (Ph.D.)
Co-creation, Healthcare Digitalization
Niina Patronen, healthcare, (RN, Senior Lecturer)
Clinical Nursing Education, Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Acute Care
Tiina Ervelius, healthcare (M.H.Sc., RN, Senior Lecturer)
Clinical Nursing Education, International Collaboration, Pedagogical Development & Research