Pro­fes­sion­al, inno­v­a­tive, reli­able.

OYS Test­Lab

Adapt­able Facil­i­ties and Cut­ting-Edge Tech­nol­o­gy

At your dis­pos­al are flex­i­ble spaces that close­ly resem­ble real hos­pi­tal envi­ron­ments:

Pohde Well­be­ing Lab – A Devel­op­ment Envi­ron­ment for Pri­ma­ry Health­care and Social Ser­vices 

Pohde Well­be­ing Lab places res­i­dents’ every­day lives and real social and health­care ser­vice envi­ron­ments at the cen­tre of devel­op­ment. Test­ing here ensures that your solu­tion meets the gen­uine needs of home care, health­care ser­vices, and social ser­vices.

In the Well­be­ing Lab, com­pa­nies receive valu­able user feed­back from social and health­care pro­fes­sion­als as well as end users. Solu­tions under test­ing include, for exam­ple, dig­i­tal ser­vices, pre­ven­tive inno­va­tions, and new ser­vice chan­nels for the well­be­ing ser­vices coun­ty.

A Com­pre­hen­sive Net­work Across the Care Con­tin­u­um

What we do

Bring your idea for expert eval­u­a­tion at an ear­ly stage of devel­op­ment. In the work­shop, clin­i­cal pro­fes­sion­als and social and health­care experts assess the fea­si­bil­i­ty and rel­e­vance of your solu­tion.

  • Price: from €600 (VAT 0%)
  • Deliv­ery time: approx. 4 weeks

Receive in-depth feed­back on your pro­to­type or fin­ished prod­uct. The assess­ment focus­es on usabil­i­ty, tech­ni­cal com­pat­i­bil­i­ty, and impact as part of the care path­way.

  • Price: from €1,080 (VAT 0%)
  • Deliv­ery time: approx. 4 weeks

A longer pilot process in which the prod­uct is used as part of a real care process or social ser­vice. You gain valu­able evi­dence of your product’s real-world effec­tive­ness.

  • Price: from €2,500 (VAT 0%)
  • Dura­tion: 4–8 weeks

Devel­op wire­less solu­tions in the hospital’s pri­vate 5G net­work togeth­er with experts.

  • Price: Deter­mined based on the test case

Rent a mod­elled hos­pi­tal envi­ron­ment for activ­i­ties such as prod­uct video shoots, train­ing ses­sions, or prod­uct demon­stra­tions.

  • Price: from €600 (VAT 0%)

What we do

Cere­nion test­ed the user inter­face of its C‑Trend® soft­ware at OYS Test­Lab with inten­sive care and neu­ro­phys­i­ol­o­gy nurs­es.

“We gained valu­able insights for fur­ther devel­op­ment in a real envi­ron­ment. This ser­vice offers a sig­nif­i­cant com­pet­i­tive advan­tage for com­pa­nies in the Oulu region,” com­ments Timo Koskela.

The prod­uct was award­ed the OuluHealth Labs Test­ed label as recog­ni­tion of the test­ing process.

Anke­rias con­duct­ed a sur­vey on its ana­lyt­ics tool for chron­ic pain man­age­ment. Expert patients helped the com­pa­ny bet­ter under­stand patient needs and improve the application’s design.

“Their per­spec­tive was extreme­ly impor­tant so that we can design some­thing patients tru­ly want to use,” says CEO Han­na Viisa­nen-Kuopi­la.

What we do

At OYS Test­Lab, you can test social and health­care devices, soft­ware, and oth­er dig­i­tal solu­tions in prac­tice. We are look­ing to col­lab­o­rate with com­pa­nies whose inno­va­tions sup­port mod­ern health­care prac­tices (Pohde) and make every­day life eas­i­er for peo­ple in North­ern Fin­land.

Our goal is to arrange a test­ing ses­sion with­in 4–6 weeks of ini­tial con­tact. As we oper­ate with­in a live hos­pi­tal envi­ron­ment, all tests are sched­uled to ensure that patient safe­ty is nev­er com­pro­mised – this may occa­sion­al­ly affect the exact time­line.

You will work with real pro­fes­sion­als. Testers include experts from spe­cialised health­care, pri­ma­ry health­care, and social ser­vices. If need­ed, tech­ni­cal spe­cial­ists – such as experts in infor­ma­tion sys­tems, device main­te­nance, or logis­tics – can also be involved.

Yes! We also rent out our facil­i­ties for pho­to­shoots and prod­uct demon­stra­tions. We have par­tic­i­pat­ed in sev­er­al adver­tis­ing projects con­duct­ed in hos­pi­tal envi­ron­ments.

Our ser­vices are clear­ly priced. You can find our up-to-date price list here:

We make get­ting start­ed easy: we pro­vide you with a ready-made frame­work for the test­ing plan. Your task is to tai­lor it to your company’s needs, after which we finalise the plan togeth­er before test­ing begins.

Yes – flex­i­bil­i­ty is one of our key strengths. We can organ­ise, for exam­ple, expert pan­els via remote con­nec­tions. You can also send the device to be test­ed to us, allow­ing our experts to eval­u­ate it on-site in Oulu.

For hos­pi­tal test­ing, we typ­i­cal­ly use sim­u­lat­ed facil­i­ties to avoid dis­rupt­ing clin­i­cal care. If your solu­tion requires a ful­ly authen­tic envi­ron­ment, we can utilise set­tings such as well­be­ing cen­tres or res­i­den­tial care units for the elder­ly.

Inte­grat­ing patient infor­ma­tion sys­tems is a tech­ni­cal­ly com­plex under­tak­ing. For this rea­son, such inte­gra­tions are usu­al­ly imple­ment­ed as part of broad­er devel­op­ment projects rather than sin­gle test­ing ses­sions. We are hap­py to help assess whether your solu­tion would be suit­able for this type of col­lab­o­ra­tion.

Our team

Timo Alalääkkölä 
Devel­op­ment Man­ag­er, Head of Test­ing and Inno­va­tions, Pohde  

Antti Uku­ra 
Inno­va­tion Coor­di­na­tor, Pohde 

Con­tact

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