HAI-proactive - New workflows and IT-tools to combat healthcare-associated infections
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Region Stockholm - Hälso och Sjukvårdsförvaltningen |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 19 960 000 |
| Project duration | December 2018 - June 2022 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Challengedriven innovation - Phase 3 Implementation |
| Call | Challenge-driven innovation - Stage 3 Implementation 2018 (autumn) |
Important results from the project
Medical injuries and maltreatment in the hospital lead to both great suffering and great costs. VRI Proaktiv aims to reduce care injuries. he most important goal is that our research, which produces knowledge about improved care and patient safety, will be of clinical benefit. VRI Proaktiv is now ready to take the step from project to company that can take responsibility for a solution based on AI and data-driven care. The potential for hospitals worldwide is very large. It is easy to spread the solution as it is based on standard products and is a cloud service that can easily be accessed.
Expected long term effects
VRI Proaktiv has developed a software suite, P3S - Patient Safety Surveillance Solutions, which can monitor the infection situation in a hospital. This allows the hospital to introduce new ways of working to reduce infections and / or train its staff with the training programs developed by the project. The solution has been put into IT production at three hospitals. Our solution leads to approximately a reduction of HAI by 10%, which in the long term reduces patient suffering and frees up care places.
Approach and implementation
Fundamental in innovation theory is to place great emphasis on understanding the situation and what the underlying need actually looks like. You should also be careful about locking yourself in to a solution, rather try your hand at prototypes. The team behind VRI Proaktiv has done that from start to end. Strategic decisions have been made along the way. An important success factor has been not making VRI Proaktiv an IT project. The project has also chosen to work information-centred, not system-centred. The system is merely a tool for accessing and processing information.