What is the approximate stakeholder breakdown of your ecosystem?
The ecosystem stakeholder group includes actors from the following sectors: South Ostrobothnia Wellbeing County, Regional hospital, 3rd sector (The Memory Association of South Ostrobothnia, The association of communities (Järjestötalo)), Regional Council of SouthOstrobothnia, Business operators (Entrepreneurs of South Ostrobothnia, Into Seinäjoki), Chamber of Commerce South Ostrobothnia, Education organizations, SMEs (Maltas Technology Plc, Mediclaudo Plc, Siili Solutions Plc, CSE Entertainment Plc, Oy Everon Ab, Suvanto Care Plc).
Others: Forest Centre and Kuortane Olympic Training Centre
The main eHealth cooperation networks we are part of are ECHAlliance, eHealth for Regions and AI Ecosystem in social and health services.
Who are the top 3 champions from your Ecosystem?
South Ostrobothnia Wellbeing County
- The South Ostrobothnian Wellbeing County is responsible for organising social welfare, health care and rescue services in its area. The welfare region serves around 190 000 inhabitants and employs more than 10 000 people.
- The Wellbeing County is managed by several departments, including health and medical services, family and social services and services for the elderly. The Director is Tero Järvinen.
Regional Council of South Ostrobothnia
- Regional Council of South Ostrobothnia is a statutory regional association of municipalities consisting of 18 member municipalities. Regional Council acts as a development and intermediary organisation for the region, and its tasks include regional development, regional planning and the promotion of culture.
- Its office is located in Seinäjoki, Kampusranta 9 C1. Regional Council provides expert services in areas such as regional planning, regional development and cultural development.
Networks
- The eHealth for Regions Network is an association of stakeholders in the health sector. The Network is an incubator for innovative projects, it facilitates the transnational cooperation on eHealth and wants to create a common European eHealth area.
- ECHAlliance is a Community Interest Company, which means ECHAlliance revenues and activities are used to provide benefits to communities in our 80+ international Ecosystems around the globe.
- The SOTE AI ecosystem network is led by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. The coordinating group also includes the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), Una Oy and DigiFinland Oy. DigiFinland acts as the practical operations coordinator for the ecosystem. The innovation network was established by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in the summer of 2024.
What EU funding/collaboration are you involved with, or you would like to be part of?
The Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences currently has around 130 projects in progress. We are interested in a wide range of project programmes and cooperation. There are about 10 projects related to digitalization in social and health care.
In addition to regional and national projects, international projects are important to us and increasing internationalisation is high on our strategy.
Three key EU Projects we are currently involved with are:
Connecting Health – Horizon Europe
What are the key priorities and themes for your ecosystem?
- Knowledge Based Management
- Big data, data lakes, data utilization, artificial intelligence, alarms
- Digital Services including Remote Services
- Connections, communication, diagnostics, person centered healthcare
- Service processes and required changes due to the introduction of new technologies in the social and healthcare sector
- Technologies supporting people living at home
- Robotics
- Games
What is your primary strength as an ecosystem?
We are particularly strong in 3 areas of work: wellbeing technology, simulation and student work.
Wellbeing Technology
- SeAMK Wellbeing Labs is the development and learning environment of the fields of health care and social work of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (SeAMK).
- The environment consists of wellbeing technology, simulations and student work.
- SeAMK Wellbeing Labs offers a platform for companies, municipalities, joint municipal authorities, organisations and municipal residents (service users) to develop, test and pilot different user-driven technologies, operating methods and process models and to support their implementation.
- The development is based on co-creation, and the activities are open and agile.
- We have been systematically developing Wellbeing technology in SeAMK during the past two decades.
- We innovate wellbeing technology solutions for everyday life to support the people and professionals.
- We act as a link between the wellbeing technology companies and the local wellbeing actors.
- We have internationally unique demonstration, education and development facilities.
- We are the uniting force for regional wellbeing technology
- We are constructing the ecosystem and networks for wellbeing technology.
- The wellbeing technology environment at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences offers companies developing wellbeing technology the opportunity to test their products in a real-life environment and get feedback from real end users.
- The testing environment offers wellbeing companies the opportunity to explore, test and evaluate the usefulness of wellbeing technologies for their own business in a neutral environment.
- Equipment in the wellbeing technology environment can be rented, presented or borrowed either for conducting research or for pilots.
- Equipment can also be installed, and their users can be trained. The environment can be used for internal training, for example in continuing education.
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Simulation
- The simulation learning environment of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences consists of two simulation classes, two simulation teaching cabins and two debriefing rooms
- The simulation learning environments are particularly well suited for different learning situations in technical and non-technical nursing skills.
- The simulation classrooms can be used for simulations in areas such as acute care nursing, perioperative nursing, internal medicine nursing, nursing of the elderly, mental health and substance abuse nursing, palliative care nursing and pediatric nursing
- The simulation classes use Gaumard and AiSimulate simulator dolls – both fixed and mobile cameras and microphones can be used in these simulations.
- Simulation teaching facilities can also be used for tailored training for different groups.
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Student work
- SeAMK Student Work is the meeting point between student work and working life. Here, students design, produce and implement workplace-oriented services as part of their courses, theses or internships.
- The services combine the needs of working life with student learning, development and collaboration.
- SeAMK Student Work is a multi-professional training environment for students of social and health sciences.
- During the internship, students receive assignments from working life or develop services themselves.
- Students will have the opportunity to use the technologies and facilities ofthe Wellbeing Labs environments for practical activities.
Which are the main hospitals in your ecosystem and which are the most active in your ecosystems?
- South Ostrobothnia Wellbeing County, Regional hospital
- The Wellbeing Services County of South Ostrobothnia – Etelä-Pohjanmaan hyvinvointialue
