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What is affecting the well-being of a person, a team and an organisation? GOOZO helps organisations get answers and suggests action, soon also with the help of AI.

Almost every fifth company on Norrsken Foundation’s new list of 100 Nordic startups with an impact that makes the world better is part of HealthTech Nordic. Cuviva and SidekickHealth are examples from our environment.

You can call it digital health, e-health, healthtech. Whatever you want. It’s still all about people–particularly the women and children of the world. That’s the most important thing Indra Sharma wants to get across.

The digitalisation of healthcare has created a whole new profession. Health care professionals who are also engineers. This gives the West Swedish business community unique opportunities, according to Åsa Lindström at Sahlgrenska Science Park, who, herself, has a background as both an intensive care nurse and an automotive engineer.

Patients who miss booked appointments deprive the healthcare system of valuable resources and healthcare waiting lists get longer. Now, the business community is getting involved to break the negative trend.

He is passionate about technology. And AI. “Never have I ever experienced anything as mind-blowing,” says Hans Forsberg, about today’s possibilities with neural networks and AI when it comes to areas such as healthtech.

The fact that the life science transformation also concerns the dental industry becomes clear via new healthtech solutions using AI. Boneprox, one of the latest additions to Accelerator @Sahlgrenska Science Park, has now applied for the eHealth Award.

Five women with links to West Sweden place among the top 20 in MedTech Magazine’s list of influential people. Charlotta Gummeson, CEO of Sahlgrenska Science Park, is on the list at #19 and Ann-Marie Wennberg is #5.

With access to expert skills in mobility, AI and 5G, there’s a window of opportunity for West Sweden in the paradigm shift for life science. The business community, science parks and the region are now teaming up to take a leading role within healthtech.

Chalmers is starting up an extensive initiative in the field of artificial intelligence to enhance and coordinate the current AI research. A kick-off event was held on 4 March for the new Chalmers AI Research Centre (CHAIR), with a two-day seminar on AI. You can stil see the webcast.

The real estate company Intea, which manages Swedish pension capital, has become a long-term owner of two of the four houses planned within the extensive life science project, Sahlgrenska Life.

Sweden’s population is getting older and healthtech is gaining increasing importance in healthcare. “Technology is an enabler for sustainable healthcare,” says Ulrika Kjellberg, CEO of Appva, the company that has developed an AI robot based on stated needs.