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Wellbeing technology creates interest
With the rise in health-care costs and the ageing of the population, health technology has become a global and rapidly developing research and financial sector. Health technologies also form a significant part of Finland’s wellbeing sector.
Technological innovations are created from interfaces. Finland is particularly wellknown as the leading country in biomaterial and fibre technology, health care informatics, wellbeing services and methodology, and biotechnology. When this is combined with expertise in productization and marketing, there is fertile ground for new, expanding business.
The overriding idea is that technology improves the quality and productivity of health services only if at the same time new operating methods and services are developed – and as innovatively as the products themselves.
Innovations and expertise
People’s wellbeing is a topic of current interest everywhere – whether it is a question of promoting health, health-care treatment or good living and housing conditions. There is a demand for products and service concepts.
The development of new medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and forms of therapy will have an important role to play in the prevention and treatment of illnesses in an ageing population. Major innovations have been achieved in these areas in Finland. The efficient health care system with its comprehensive patient registers has been of great assistance here.
The spearheads of the expertise include biomaterials used in dental and bone surgery, clinic-chemical and bioanalytical measuring equipment, health-care software and services for the public health service.
Fitness and sports inventor
Finns are well known for being health and fitness enthusiasts, inventors of new sports and manufacturers of innovative equipment and functional, i.e. health-improving, products. One common aim is to get people up and about and looking after their own health and to promote wellbeing by producing know-how and expertise in the sector.
Advances in wellbeing are being made through constant research
and innovation work and the development of IT health products
and services, software, and service and enterprise resource
planning systems. Companies, public social and health care
services, financiers, developers in the sector and other interest
groups are investing in the innovation environment, identifying
the top expertise and spreading it.
Published 2006
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