Brown Bag Lunch Talks @ MSD

Brown Bag Lunch Talks is a formal meeting over lunch to discuss current topics at the border between health, care and technology. (kl 11.30-13.00)

I gather information from my own diary, my postit-pieces, my fit-bit, runkeeper and my smartphone.

Then I add information from my medical records, my prescriptions by all prescribers, my history of illness, regardless of country or residence. Then I have aggregated data that can be mapped, understood and perhaps predict?

Data that can help me as an individual to live a healthy life. With combined data, healthcare and treatment can be both planned and streamlined and, as a patient, I get better conditions for taking greater responsibility for my own health.

Blockchain technology enables co-ordination of large-scale layers of digital information, in open ecosystems, and is owned and controlled by none and everyone. Sweden has taken a cutting edge initiative in the area and we see the solution, but how can we have the system work?

Elsa is an e-health tool for follow-up, forecasting, lifestyle, etc. for patients, in collaboration with the research institute Riskminder at KI and the newly established digital design company, Elsa Science.

Elsa is run by Sofia Svantesson together with Lars Klareskog and Lars Alfrdesson, at Karolinska Institutet, et al.