1. The County Council's work with e-Health Attractive living environments, good public health and strong economic growth

2. e-Health : Use and development of informations and communication technology to promote medical and social services. [Image 2] The County Council's work with e-Health 2007-2009 County Commissioner Agneta Granström chairs the AER working group on e-Health Needs of citizens, patients and relatives, care personnel, care providers and decisionmakers Effectiveness and user benefit in medical and social services Background Impetus for change in health- and medical care Challenges and opporunities Lisbon Strategy Regional development programme: attractive living environments, good public health and strong economic growth Regional innovation systems Regional players in research, politics and business Telemedicine centre at LTU Position Norrbotten and create user benefits More strategic partners More international cooperation projects Development of new products and services Conscious long-term effort Work at policy level Project input Operational development in health and medical care Goals: Facilitate use and development of ICT in medical and social services Give citizens and care personnel access to information that is easily available, reliable, evidence-based, effective, of uniform quality, and up-to-date Improve information supply between citizens and medical and social services

3. e-Health : Use and development of informations and communication technology to promote medical and social services. [Image 3] Project resources SEK 2.8m annually for the period 2007-2009 finances above all: Process Manager (Maria Magdalena Holmgren) commissioned among other things to Coordinate the County Council's e-Health initiative. Give administrative support to the chair and the policy level. Coordinate ongoing work between the County Council and Luleå University of Technology (LTU). EU coordinator for the County Council's EU project (Kenneth Sjaunja), commissioned among other things to Monitor developments in the different EU programming areas Provide support in formulating EU project applications and administration. Translate operational needs into development projects that can be implemented with the help of support from the EU and other financiers. Project coordinator (P-O Egnell) commissioned to coordinate the County Council's own e-Health projects, among other things Distance-spanning consultation and treatment involving IT-based instruments. Improvement of cooperation and information flow between different care providers. More effective and accurate methods for needs analyses, identifying products and services in demand. Provision of care information and services for patients and citizens.

4. e-Health : Use and development of informations and communication technology to promote medical and social services. [Image 4] Project organisation Principal: Elisabeth Holmgren Project owner: Kurt-Åke Hammarstedt, Regional Unit Steering group: Kurt-Åke Hammarstedt (Chair), Ulla Isaksson, Medicine Division, Gunnar Persson, Health and Medical Care Unit and Bo Westerlund, Primary Care Division Project Leader: Maria Magdalena Holmgren, Process Manager e-Health Project group: Rolf Adolfsson, Adult Psychiatry Division, Susanne B. Andersson, Medicine Division, Per-Olof Egnell, Project Coordinator e-Health, Åke Hellström, Dental Division, Maria Magdalena Holmgren, Process Manager e- Health, Kristina Jonsson, County Technical Services, Irene Lundmark, County Technical Services, Birgitta Scott, Diagnostics Division, Kenneth Sjaunja, EU Coordinator, Veronica Sundström, Operation Specialities Division, Jonas Thörnqvist, Primary Care Division and Jeanette Öhgren, Information Unit Communications group: Barbro Alatalo, Information Unit, Eivor Bryngelson, Attraktiv region, Cay Hedberg, Information Unit, Maria Magdalena Holmgren, Process Manager e-Health, Kenneth Sjaunja, EU Project Office, Åsa Snällfot, Regional Unit, and Lars Wallrup, Attraktiv Region County Council Executive Rapporteur : Agneta Granström Reference group: HLG, RUP-BG

5. e-Health : Use and development of informations and communication technology to promote medical and social services. [Image 5] Strategic alliances FP7, The European Framework Programme for Research (SEK 500m 2007-2013) CIP, Framework Programme for Competition and Innovation (SEK 30m 2007-2013) Objective 2 and Objective 3 Telemedicine centre at LTU Troms and National Centre for Telemedicine (NST) in Norway Ongoing cooperation with Canada LTU coordinator for project collaboration in the Arctic Council ICT group SERN collaboration with Italy