Centre for Health &
Technology
Maritta Perälä-Heape, PhD
Director, CHT
Trends and opportunities
in health care
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Role of citizens: Individualized healthcare
From disease treatment to health promotion
Diagnostics from chronic disease analysis towards health
monitoring and life style change
Social media, games…
Independent living
”Connected health”: Towards mobile and ubiquitous health care
 Emergency of completely new businesses, new business models
 Next generation of wireless solutions in health care (wireless
monitoring,
future home & future hospital)
Future health technologies
Advanced sensor and measurement technologies
Mobile and ubiquitous technologies
Molecular and clinical medicine, behavioral
sciences
Business driven initiatives:
Personal eHealth concept,
Health City
High potential for applications in
promoting
wellbeing and health
Oulu Innovation Alliance (OIA)
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The ultimate target of the Oulu Innovation Alliance
agreement is to keep Oulu as an internationally
acknowledged center for innovation an to build
national and international networks of
collaboration
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The OIA founding partners have committed
1. To focus their operations, education, research and development
activities on agreed innovation areas.
2. To invest in the development of agreed infrastructures.
3. To develop and test innovation systems and processes to
accelerate the development of new business
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The focus areas are Internet research, printed electronics & optical
measurement technologies, global business & economies,
environment and healthcare sectors.
Where health and technology intersect the next opportunity
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Centre for Health and Technology (CHT) creates life science/ICTdriven growth opportunities by combining cutting-edge research
and innovations with agile new business creation.
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CHT’s role is to combine the best ideas, people and resources
from different fields of industries and science for co-creation of
next generation health technologies, appliances and services.
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CHT projects are multi-disciplinary with the main focus is in
technology but closely linked with application development,
usability and social sciences.
Centre for Health & Technology
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Develops innovation processes
Identifies regional innovation potential
Recognizes co-operational multi-disciplinary
opportunities
Follows actively trends and builds strong project
portfolio
Ensures the communication/crosstalk between
the science and industry/health care providers
Facilitates dynamic development, experimenting
and piloting
Partners and co-operation
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University of Oulu
Oulu University of Applied Sciences
City of Oulu – BusinessOulu; Social and Health care
services
VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland
Technopolis Plc
Northern Ostrobothnia Hospital District
Other important interest groups include project partners,
innovators, companies and business developers.
CHT core activities:
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To build
 strong RDI project portfolio to attract funding> thematic issues and
priorities
 Strategic cooperation with global networks
 Dynamic innovation process of multi-disciplinary RDI
 Globally advanced RDI environment and infrastructure for piloting
CHT Focus Areas:
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Wireless health monitoring
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Genes and lifestyle
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Individualized healthcare
Centre for Health & Technology
Needs & Specifications
Evidence-based and
commercialized results and
platform solutions for
Local, national and
international companies
Public and private
healthcare
Highest level
multidisciplinary
research and
technology platforms
Biotechnology
Diagnostics
Molecular medicine
Clinical medicine
Cohort
companies
Piloting
individuals
homes
hospitals
Focus Areas
•Wireless health monitoring
•Genes and lifestyle
•Individualized healthcare
municipals
etc.
Medical Technology
Information systems
Wireless Communication
Machine vision
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Innovation process
- Consumers
- Municipals
- Hospitals
- Health centres
- Insurance
companies
Idea/
proactivity
Customer
needs
Basic
research
Training & Publications
Inter&-national project
co-operation
- Existing companies
- New companies
-Trends
-Invest in
Business
(product/ser
vices)
Applied
research
Piloting
- Remote monitoring
- Health training
- Feedback systems
- Etc.
Oulu Wellness Institute
Solutions
Innovations
Start-ups
Business development
PrintoCent
CIE
Maigbe
PanOulu
Technology health centre
Wireless Health Monitoring
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Combines top level technological and medical expertise in Oulu
area
◦ Broad existing project portfolio and cooperation in academia and companies
◦ New project ideas on health promotion, aging, dignostics, methods for sensoring
and monitoring, imaging, wireless monitoring, wireless hospital, international
cooperation
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Comprehensive technology platform
◦ Smart sensors and intelligent clothes, body area networks (IEEE 802.15.6
standard), Positioning technologies, database and server systems, data and
network security, 3D Internet
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Individualized healthcare applications
◦ Metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, osteoporosis,
neurodegenerative diseases, aging
◦ Remote monitoring and diagnostics, Health promotion
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From basic research to field tests and end-user applications
◦ Indoor Living Labs
◦ Outdoor Living Labs
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Individualized Healthcare-Intelligent Piloting
Environment
COMPREHENSIVE Health and Wellness Management for Individuals
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Test User Community
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Creation of global test user profile bank network for testing applications and
services
Unique life-long cohort study for wellness and health
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Data bank covering generation 1966 born in Northern Finland
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Pregnancy, prenatal, childhood, puberty and adulthood data
Personalized medicine (genes and life style)
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Epigenomics for profiling genome and gene activity in health, wellness and
disease
Printing technologies in low-cost high-volume consumer diagnostics
Social and motivating innovations
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Engagement of web and mobile services
International co-operation
Enhancing international co-operation between
innovation (research & business driven) clusters in areas
or topics of common interest
 Improving and sharing RDI infrastuructures
(transnational piloting, testing, and/or innovation camp)
 Exploring opportunities for financing of joint projects
 Enhancing researcher/professor mobility actions in
areas of common interest
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