From Tokyo to Oulu — Tokyo Pub­lic Health del­e­ga­tion explores inno­va­tion at Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal

It is always a plea­sure to host inter­na­tion­al del­e­ga­tions in Oulu and show­case the inno­va­tions devel­oped here. This time, a del­e­ga­tion from the Tokyo Met­ro­pol­i­tan Gov­ern­ment Bureau of Pub­lic Health vis­it­ed us at OYS – Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal on Mon­day, Octo­ber 27.

The vis­it began with an overview of OYS, fol­lowed by pre­sen­ta­tions on Pohde’s inno­va­tion activ­i­ties and the award-win­ning Hola 5G Oulu project. At OYS Test­Lab and the Ser­vice Design Cen­tre, the guests saw how real-world space mod­el­ling is used to plan new func­tions and ensure smooth work­flows.

Dur­ing the hos­pi­tal tour, the group explored the Neu­ro­cen­tre and the Oper­at­ing Depart­ment, where they were intro­duced to the Image-Guid­ed Surgery Unit and a new AI-assist­ed speech recog­ni­tion tool cur­rent­ly being test­ed for struc­tured doc­u­men­ta­tion in the patient infor­ma­tion sys­tem. They also learned about the Hos­pi­tal Pharmacy’s Unit Dose dis­pens­ing robot, Unto, and the pneu­mat­ic tube sys­tem used to trans­port med­i­cines.

The del­e­ga­tion was high­ly impressed by OYS’s use of cut­ting-edge tech­nolo­gies and the way both staff and patients are active­ly involved in plan­ning and test­ing new solu­tions. They showed par­tic­u­lar inter­est in the AI-sup­port­ed doc­u­men­ta­tion of recep­tion con­ver­sa­tions and in the Esko patient infor­ma­tion sys­tem with its mobile appli­ca­tions.

Source: Text — Pohde, image - Busi­nes­sOulu