Norway: The “pilot illness” - easy to do hospital pilot projects, difficult to get larger deployments

What hospitals in the US would probably turn into a spin-out and create a new company, can quickly go to waste in Europe because pilot projects are followed by… tenders. At least judging by Norway.

There, says Svein Willassen, Founder of Confrere, they have an expression called “the pilot illness” - which refers to the problem of the ecosystem being very supportive towards pilot projects but makes it very difficult to deploy a solution on a larger scale. 

Telemedicine in 2023

Telemedicine is becoming an archaic term in 2023. It is also too broad. We now have at-home hospitals, virtual wards, remote monitoring, and more. Video consultations and online patient portals saw a spike during the pandemic. While many encounters have returned to the in-person setting, a lot of development is happening in workforce optimization. This aims to reduce the burden on hospital infrastructure and improve patient outcomes by bringing clinical staff back into patients' homes, provided they have the necessary conditions, equipment, and support for at-home care.

In this episode, Svein Willassen, Co-Founder and CEO of Confrere, the leading telehealth company in Scandinavia (acquired by Daily in 2022), talks about:
➡ how videoconferencing goes together with generative AI, 
➡ how to approach the Nordic market, 
➡ view of AI tools as an addition to the healthcare practitioner's toolbox,
➡ importance of deploying language models without compromising data privacy.

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