SLUSH 30.11.2017
AKI PUUSTJÄRVI
Virtual hospital

Virtual hospital project 2016–2018
Hospital District of Helsinki
and Uusimaa (HUS)
Northern
Ostrobothnia
Hospital District
(PPSHP)
Hospital District
of Northern Savo
(PSSHP)
Hospital District of
Southwest Finland
(VSSHP)
Helsinki
Kuopio
Oulu
Tampere
Turku
Pirkanmaa Hospital
District (PSHP)
All Citizens within
university hospital
districts.
Seamless services on a
national level.
Funding from the
Ministry of Social
Affairs and Health.

Health village services
FOR PROFESSIONALS
DIGITAL SERVICES AS A PART OF PATIENTS’ TREATMENT PATH
Diagnosis tools
Treatment instructions in
digital format
Remote
appointments
Personal path customer account
Identification
Unique
care plan for patient to
inspect
Self-care/
self-monitoring
Support/coaching
therapy/remote
treatment
Communication
Examination consent
Applications
Devices, instruments
Symptom navigator
Applications/
sensors
SERVICES AVAILABLE FOR CITIZENS
Information
and advice
services
Service
guidance
Self
care services
Symptom-specific
navigators
Engagement
Service
presentations
Peer
support
eConsultations
Researchers' tools

Virtual hospital and Finnish PHR
 Why should you be interested?
 You get to co-operate with the university hospital districts that provide special care for more than
half of the Finnish population
 Our first services that were introduced already in 2009 attract thousands of patients monthly
 By the end of 2018 over 50 new digital care paths will be opened covering everything from IVF to
arthritis
 What do we offer
 We aggregate data from several devices and store them in the Finnish PHR for your use. For a
complete list of currently supported devices, contact us
 We invite application developers to use that data and create compelling services that support the
treatments. The best services can be attached to the care paths
 Users can also authorize applications to access the PHR data independently of the virtual hospital
for other uses
 The first profiles to be implemented include steps, pulse, weigh, blood pressure and sleep
 We are including more and more devices 2018
 We provide you with application development guidelines and easy access to national
authentication services

Thank you for your attention!
aki.puustjarvi@hus.fi