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At Kustaankartono Senior Centre, the largest and oldest elderly care centre in Helsinki, Finland, a decommissioned tram takes centre stage in the courtyard. Residents who are grappling with moderate to severe dementia have been taken on “rides” to wherever they want.
It’s not surprising, as Helsinki is an innovation hub for health technology or health tech, which it is harnessing to enable many of its elderly population to live longer at home. Finland has built a strong public-private ecosystem that connects researchers, clinicians, entrepreneurs and corporates, benefiting not only its own people but also those elsewhere. Finnish health tech companies operate globally, and they export most of their products.
“I think that digitalisation keeps health for us, because we can then have more care at home,” she said. Data from the FinnGen research project, which aims to study the genome and health data of 500,000 Finnish individuals, has already been used to identify risk factors for various diseases, for instance.
At the HUS Helsinki University Hospital campus, the Bridge Hospital that opened in February is the first hospital in Europe to have a state-of-the-art operating suite for the most critical trauma patients, known as the Raptor room.
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