1. Health Kuopio Program Heikki Helve Program director The City of Kuopio
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Markku Hänninen
Program coordinator
The City of Kuopio
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2. Health Kuopio -program
The Health Kuopio program is major cooperation project which aims to turn Kuopio and its region into a leading European centre of excellence for health and wellness expertise.
The program will convert the current state-of-art knowhow and research into commercial applications and provide excellence in services to the city population.
The aim of the program is
to strengthen the competive situation of the Kuopio region, and
to develop new production models of health and wellness

3. Selected fields of the program
2. Creating pilot schemes for new production and cooperation models of health and wellness expertise
1. Building on the base of health and wellness expertise to pursue strengthening, implementation and commercialization of the results
3. Developing wellness tourism in the Kuopio region
Promoting the world-class health and wellness expertise now existing in the Kuopio region

4. The programme fundamentals
Promotion of cooperation between interested parties (e.g. interface activities between enterprises and public sector)
Development of operational models, pilot schemes and assessment
For example application of a novel operational model in cooperation with enterprises
Survey of needs and undertaking pilot schemes of the city level –>indentify needs
Projects which create cooperation -> intensify cooperation
Realisation of activities and strengthening of competitive situation
Strengthening of regional and widen cooperation
Bringing to the fore strategic concerns (operational models and operating needs, financing, regional implications)

5. Kuopio Science Park Region
The Valley of Health and Wellness Expertise
University Hospital
Medi 2 (2004)
Canthia
Polytechnic
Mediteknia
Studentia
Snellmania
Tietoteknia
Bioteknia 1, 2
GTK
Neulanen
Microteknia 1,2,3
Centek
Market

6. Utilize the unique health and wellness infrastructure and resources
Health Kuopio steps to success
“Health Kuopio –programme
coordinates the integration”
Kuopio
health and
wellness
expertise
Health Kuopio
project model
Kuopio
testbed
Regional
markets
International
and national
markets
Utilize the unique health and wellness infrastructure and resources
of the Kuopio region.
New co-operation between public, private and third sector, using latest technology, sharing common targets
Kuopio region will make use of the latest research to develop its own health care and social services
Effective international networking will ensure fruitful collaboration and mutual interaction with other centres of excellence throughout the world

7. Kuopio – the creation of a European centre of excellence for health and wellness expertise
HEALTH KUOPIO STEERING GROUP AND DEVELOPMENT UNIT
Adoption and coordination of the programme, assessment and monitoring of the programme, creation of cooperation network, planning of financial totalities, public relations
Implementation and commercialisation of the Kuopio region health and wellness expertise
Kuopio region as a testbed for novel health and wellness expertise
Wellness tourism
MATKAILUPALVELU OY Tourist services / travel agencies
UNIVERISITY SAVONIA POLYTECHNIC WELLTEKNIA
HEALTH KUOPIO DEVELOPMENT UNIT
Enterprises, University of Kuopio, Savonia Polytechnic, KUH, The North Savo Regional Consortium of Education, Teknia Ltd, the Kuopio region, the third sector, national and international implementors

8. City administration for decision-making and overall planning control of the Health Kuopio activities
District central
programme
City Goverment
of Kuopio
Ministries, TEKES, Sitra,
EU etc.
FINANCIAL PROPOSALS ON THE ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS
OPERATIVE DECISION MAKING
Health Kuopio Management Group of the City
Petteri Paronen, Jukka Pulkkinen, Paavo Kaitokari, Pauli Kurkirinne,
Heikki Ryynänen, Maritta Vuorinen, Hannu Janhunen, Riitta Koskinen, Heikki Helve, Markku Hänninen
PREPARATORY RESPONSIBILITY
Program director Heikki Helve
Program coordinator Markku Hänninen
STRATEGIC POLICY
Health Kuopio steering group
PROPOSALS FOR THE HEALTH KUOPIO PROGRAM
Project-wide preparatory groups

9. Commercialization and merchandising of health and wellness expertise
Investments in development of expertise and products
Investments in technical education and research in Kuopio
Centek – education and R&D of applied IT expertise
WellTeknia – technology piloting incl. product development testbeds
”Feasibility research centre”
Piloting examples
Development of the hospital cooperation (KUH) concept; e.g. the model hospital
Development of the Levänen: testbed projects
Founding of companies involved in the testbed concept

10. Links to service development
Searching for alternatives for future options
Initiation of linked activities based projects with a clear core and modelling of needs
ETU forum (city of Kuopio)
Placement and practice (Savonia Polytechnic)
Cure chains (the Hearth hospital) (KUH)
Integration of all care for the eldery (assessment e.g. the Levänen testbed)
”Forum thinking”; joint cooperative activities
Project financing, commitment to achieving set goals

11. Links to service development
Project totalities now underway
Main themes: Model hospital, the Levänen testbed, feasibility projects
Nutrition and medication (the elderly as a target group)
Data networks (e.g. PlugIT)
Cure chains (obesity, stroke, diabetes)
Security expertise (TEKES, integrated in different projects)
Cooperation model with the third sector
Establishment of the research cooperation model (KU, Savonia Polytechnic)
China cooperation (Shanghai, TCM, the elderly, network solutions, wellness tourism)

12. Aims of the programme in 2003
The strategic aims for Kuopio
Start of the programme
Initial projects / pilot schemes implementation
Start of the WellTeknia activities
Inauguration of the Faculty of Technology

13. Activities in 2003 Started activities Pilot projects started
Planning of the WellTeknia concept
Initiation of the wellness tourism (Matkailupalvelu Oy)
Setting the scene for the Levänen project (development group)
Internal activities in municipal goverment
Enterprise cooperation; proposals (Enterprise Service, Teknia)
Forum work (ETU + new initiatives)
The organisation form approved by the city goverment
Information and marketing

14. Activities in 2003
Essential supporting activities (by interested parties other than the city)
KU / Faculty of Technology (OU) Mediteknia and its involment in different projects (KU, Savonia Polytechnic, Teknia, KUH, communes)
”Arvo” (Savonia Polytechnic)
OSKE / technologic piloting
Utilisation of networks
International linking in cooperation with other interested parties

15. Activities in 2003 Aims of further activities
Actively seeking to hive off new products from the current projects and searching for new projects
Further development of enterprises testbed concept
Publicity and marketing activities
Specifying the aims and budget preparation for the year 2004
Expansion of the financial structure and new initiatives
Augmentation of the international aspect (Finnpro…)

16. Strategic program Widening of expertise, R&D and entrepreneurship base
Kuopio – the creation of a European centre of excellence for health and wellness expertise
2012
Widening of expertise, R&D and entrepreneurship base
Wellness pilot schemes (change, modelling, new technologies, operational models)
Wellness tourism
2003

17. Project activities in 2003
1. Enlargement and commercialisation of health and wellness expertise
Strengthening the technical expertise foundation
WellTeknia
HAT
Benchmarking
Seminar arragements
2. Piloting unit for novel production and operational models in health and wellness services
The Levänen scheme
ETU forum
Model hospital
Coronary disease - defining the cure chain
3. Wellness tourism in the Kuopio region
Marketing and merchandising of wellness tourism aimed at different target groups

18. WELLTEKNIA Centre of Excellence for Health and Wellness
Planning project –
Project manager M.Sc. Ossi Haatainen
WELLTEKNIA Centre of Excellence for Health and Wellness
Network environment of development, piloting and merchandising for services and products in health and wellness technology
WellTeknia develops applications suitable for commercialization
Expert product development platform for enterprises and other organisations

19. WELLTEKNIA Centre of Excellence for Health and Wellness
Supporting of the Health Kuopio Program in Health care technology programmes
Networking and signposting of cooperation projects
Assesment of technology pilot schemes
R&D support for enterprises in the Kuopio region
Attracting new enterprises to the Kuopio region
Support for new enterprise activities
Support for product development
Improving the facilities available to the commercial companies
Enterprise service laboratories and R&D premises
Teknia’s service supply
Network’s servise apply

20. WELLTEKNIA Centre of Excellence for Health and Wellness
Premises
People
Expertise
Networks
R&D Supply Centre
WellTeknia

21. Model hospital ”Model hospital asa a process”
KUH as leader / generator (Jorma Penttinen, Jussi Kouri, Pasi Markkanen) - Cooperation partner TKKK – Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Aim is to Improve the functionality and efficacy of the cure chain in cardiac disease Make financial savings because of these intensified activities
”Model hospital asa a process”
A. Prosess management and development Will be planned ”from start to finish” covering the whole chain from preventive measures to treatment and rehabilitation (basic health care, special nursing, open private sector)
B. Merchandising Development, merchandising and commercialisation of process management applications

22. Seamless cure chain guidelines for coronary disease treatment in the Verkkoinfo portal
Aim of the project is
to inaugureate the Verkkoinfo project as a seamless cure chain guideline concerning the treatment of coronary disease on ”the KUH million people district” region.
Content planning and quality assessment of the area network’s portal, and development of the use of the portal in the Sonetti project will be planned by an expert body consisting of experts of medicine, nursing science, social sciences, information technology and data administration in the hospital districs of South Savo, East Savo, North Savo, North Karjala and Kajaani.
Project will promote collaboration in the Health Kuopio Program between the Kuopio City Health Care, municipalities in the Kuopio region and the Kuopio University Hospital, and it will act as a trail-blazer scheme for more extensive cure chains in coronary disease.

23. Health and wellness expertise and the future of the Kuopio region
Bechmarking – comparison of five welfare clusters in the field of health and wellness expertise
Evaluation project – Project Manager Päivi Niiranen Pohjois-Savo Polytechnic
The aim of the project is to highlight the best practices of the
health and wellness expertise that can be applied in the Health
Kuopio Program
Project collates information about the current competitivity of
the health and wellness expertise in the Kuopio region in relation
to other national and international regions
The aim of the evaluation is to focus on expertise,
entrepreneurship and inftrastructure in health and wellness
Development areas and possibilities for the Health Kuopio
program will be scrutinized
OULU
KUOPIO
TAMPERE
TURKU
PÄÄKAUPUN-KISEUTU
Kartan lähde: Makropilotin klusteriarviointi 2002

24. Health Kuopio – health and wellness – and technology
Thursday at 9 –16 a clock, Mediteknia auditorium, Harjulantie 1, Kuopio
Development of health and wellness, and future of services in North Savo
Research, training and health and wellness expertise
Can health and wellness be merchandised?
Practical organizational arrangements for the seminar are made by Savonia Polytechnic

25. R&D centre for services for the eldery in the Levänen support centre
AIMS is to
create a pilot and test environment for services for the
elderly concentrating on how advances in health and
wellness technology can be best utilized
ensure that the building’s technological infrastructure will
be suitable for handling future innovations in the fields of
technology and nursing
create the environment to encourage nursing
entrepreneurship activities and product development in
cooperation with the City of Kuopio, university, enterprises,
polytechnic and other implementors
SERVICE
BLOCK
2003-
2004
Technological
infrasturcture
PROJECTS
Coordination
and
development
group
Development of nursing procedures
Independent living at home (incl. 3rd sector)
AIMS
Nutrition and medication
Utilisitation of data networks
Health and wellness design
Development of mobile technology
Biosignals and identification
Collaboration projects of enterprises

26. The service centre for the elderly in Levänen
and regional development integrity
Health and wellness, development of services, technology and business possibilities
Welfaremix KU
Savonia
Polytechnic
Regional Institute
of Occupational Health
SYTYKE
KUH
KOTI
Service providers from the
3rd sector
LEVÄNEN
PILOT SCHEME PLATFORM
Day centre
Unit of supported service habitation
Unit of home care
Kuopio
Siilinjärvi
Enterprises
National
associates
The Shanghai
piloting
The Sendai
pilot scheme
International markets and collaboration partners

27. New production model of health and wellness services for adolescents and children requiring special support
ETU-FORUM
3. ANCHORAGE Anchorage of a new operational
model within the service structure
2. DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODEL
- Creation of joint aims and activities by implementing bodies
1. BASIC ANALYSIS
Indentification of implementors and modes
Concretize aims of development and identify development needs
Identification of bottlenecks of activities and pain spots of
information flow
The City of Kuopio, the Kuopio University Hospital, local communities, ADHD
Association, the Kuopio University, Savonia Polytechnic and other intrested parties, e.g. enterprises

28. ETU forum project The aim is
Basic analysis and preparation for extension procedures – Project manager Jaana Lappalainen City of Kuopio
The aim is
to concretize aims of development of service networks for children and
adolescents requiring special support and to identify their functional and
technological needs for development
to create a specified operational framework for development of a new
operational model: a collaboration model which includes division of
responsiblities between different interest groups, methods of collaboration and
training of staff for identification of neurological disorders of chidren, treatment
and support – clarifying of rules and reduction of insecurity
initialisation of development processess with create permanent changes and
learning in the present functional structures

29. Units in the forum and project activity
City of Kuopio
Education services
All levels of basic schooling
Secondary schooling
Services for schoolchildren
Social and health service units
Rehabilitation unit / unit of children and adolescents
Day care units
Maternity and child welfare clinics
Recreational services
Health Kuopio development unit
The municipality of Siilinjärvi
Families
The Kuopio University Hospital
Department of Phoniatria
Department of Neurology
Department of Children and Juvenile Psychiatry
The Kuopio University
The North Savo Regional Consortium for Education
Association executers
State Provincal Office of Eastern Finland
Pohjois-Savo Vocational Institute

30. Timetabling for the ETU forum
ETU foorum
ETU foorum
The ETU foorum seminar
1st meeting of the steering group
1st meeting of the steering group
8. Development project
7. Preparation of the development project
6. Planning of the model
5. Reporting of the basic analysis
4. Preparation of the seminar
3. Round III
2. Round II
1. Round I
2.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
1.10
1.11
1.12
31.1
2004
Health Kuopio Management Group

31. Wellness tourism
Unification of health services and products related to tourism for wellness tourism products
Health and wellness + tourism = wellness tourism
Wellness tourism is based on the desire and / or need to improve health and it is coordinated, organized and tailor-made by nature.
Wellness tourism includes treatment of different chronic ”living standard” diseases.
Acute cases will be treated locally, not by wellnes tourism.

32. WT development project
The aim of the project is
to make wellness tourism a profitable business
to create a national coordination centre for wellness tourism.
The project combines 1) top-class expertise specialized in health and environmental products, and 2) expertise and services of health service and tourism service enterprises to create a future service intergrated platform for wellness tourism.

33. Networked research collaboration
A virtual bridge from technology to usability
and novel operations model
SURREY PILOTING
PLATFORM
DWRC
VIRTUAL USABILITY
R&D CENTRE
Multidisciplinary applied research from the point of view of individual, society and technology
Usability research of technology and social aspect
Usability
Implementation analyses
Interactive information technology
HAT
University, Savonia
Polytechnic, Centek,
Shiftek, MC
HEALTH KUOPIO
PILOTING PLATFORM
eEurope
Networked research collaboration
6th framework program

34. Acitivities centred around the maternity clinic data system
Enterprise A
Customer – maternity
clinic systems
Enterprise B
KUH
Enterprise C
Systems of basic
health care
The City of Kuopio
Enterprise D
Siilinjärvi-Maaninka
Enterprise E
Heinävesi / Rautavaara
European
International
Kuopio
university
Local
Reginal
National
Savonia
Polytechnic
Other local
interest
groups
Maternity
clinic
centre
(Well)Teknia
Ministry of
Social
Affairs and
Health
FinPro
Stakes
vaihe: Regional
vaihe: National
vaihe: European / international

35. Health Kuopio Third Way
Where? Where to? How?
Municipal services
Third sector services
Relation and working methods? Rules (liabilities and roles) in collaboration? Content of service supply, suppliers? Confirmation of quality and effectiviness?
Possibilities to utilize the offered service? Oversubscribed? Creation of collaboration? Availability of the service targeting of small resources? Sharpening of direction?

36. Third Way aims PROJECT SHARPENING OF KUOPIO’S STRATEGY
Information and assessment centre
SHARPENING OF THE THIRD
SECTOR STRATEGY

37. Timetabling of the projects
Publication of the program 13.6.
AKO decisions 17.4.
T1 application
Tekes 22.9.
T1 application 31.1.
T1 application 30.9. 3S
HAT
PlugIT
Cure chain of coronary disease
3 months
ETU foorum –
Benchmarking ja seminar –
Wellness tourism –
Model hospital
23 months
WellTeknia –
Technical expertise –
R&D development unit
The Levänen scheme
Preparation of the program
1.6
1.6
1.6
2003
2004
Financial decision
Financial application

38. Thank you for attention Come and join us in building
a successful and healthy Kuopio
Co-ordinator Markku Hänninen
Kuopio City Administration
puh. (017)
Program Leader  Heikki Helve
Kuopio City Administration
puh. (017)