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Therese Scott Duncan, postdoc at the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, is in a new study investigating how Lead Patients self-care has been received by healthcare professionals. The study, ”Empowered patients and informal caregivers as partners? A survey study of healthcare professionals’ perceptions”, is published in BMC Health Services Research.
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29 September, 2022
How health is translated into moneyVarious health care interventions can, to put it in simplified terms, yield different amounts of health per invested Swedish krona. But how can subjective experiences, such as quality of life, be brought into these calculations? Researchers at Karolinska Institutet find ways to make health economic decisions.
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28 September, 2022
Scientific challenge to measure inequity in healthHow is health equity even calculated? Researchers Emelie Agardh and Matteo Bottai at Karolinska Institutet are looking for new methodological paths, among other things inspired by the game Master mind.
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26 September, 2022
Advanced course in Network medicineFrom byte to bench to bed side – addressing large and complex data sets in biomedicine
KI Network Medicine Alliance offers an advanced course in Network Medicine 19th-20th of October 2022
KI Network Medicine Alliance offers an advanced course in Network Medicine 19th-20th of October 2022
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23 September, 2022
Six unusual factors that affect health We know that lifestyle affects health. But even factors that you cannot control have an influence. Here are six examples.
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23 September, 2022
Understanding health inequities and how to reduce themHave a car. Don’t be poor. Don’t have a stressful job. Age, gender and socioeconomics are some of the factors that affect your risk of developing an illness and of dying prematurely. Sweden has set the goal of levelling out influenceable health gaps within one generation. But is this goal realistic? And why is it so difficult to achieve? Read an article series about health inequities from the Swedish magazine Medicinsk Vetenskap.
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14 March, 2022
The Anaesthesia Web in The LancetGunilla Lööf, affiliated with the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), is passionate about clinical implementation of research results and hopes for increased collaboration between clinic and academy. Her project The Anesthesia Web is now being highlighted in The Lancet.
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As one of two partners from KI in the CUREX project, LIME/HIC invites you to a workshop on Cyber Hygiene, and especially on the human aspects related to raising the cybersecurity and data privacy awareness of the workforce in the healthcare sector.
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2 December, 2020
Sabine Koch Key Note speaker at CBIS 2020Sabine Koch, professor and head of HIC, the Health Informatics Centre, is the keynote speaker at the 17th Brazilian Health Informatics Conference
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3 September, 2020
New EU Innovation Action Grant for research project COVID-XThe Unit for Bioentrepreneurship (UBE) and the Health Informatics Centre (HIC) at the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, have been granted an EU Innovation Action Grant for the project COVID-X, which aims to contribute to the public health preparedness and response in the context of the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 and to ensure the availability of critical technologies and tools.
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Hi there Therese Scott Duncan, who held her licentiate seminar with the title "Paving the way - the second generation of e-patients, their experiences, actions and driving forces" in May. Congratulations! Can you tell us a little more?
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A new EU funded research project entitled “nexT gEneRation sMart INterconnectEd ioT (TERMINET)” has been initiated by researchers at KI and the Health Informatics Centre (HIC) at LIME. Karolinska Institutet is participating as healthcare research partner, within a consortium of 27 partners all around Europe.
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12 February, 2020
Board Certification in Clinical Informatics to Health Informatics alumniAlumni from Health Informatics Centre (HIC) at Karolinska Institutet receives Board Certification in Clinical Informatics by the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM).
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12 December, 2019
Capacity building projects within Erasmus+Researchers from Karolinska Institutet participate in capacity building projects fincanced by Erasmus+
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29 November, 2019
New research project on Refugees' Health Integration - ReHINTo inaugurate the research project "Refugees' Health Integration - ReHIN", a kick-off was organised on 5 November 2019, at Karolinska Institutet, including stakeholders that represented non-governmental organizations (NGOs), policymakers, governmental organizations and researchers in the field.
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Researchers from Karolinska Institutet and the University of Pireus have presented a new method for finding matches among the various components of ontologies in healthcare in order to facilitate semantic interoperability. The study is published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.
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