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INNOVATION IN HEALTH CARE

- Bridging the gap between clinic and industry

Passed
18.
June
2026
  1. 18. Jun 2026, 8:30 AM - 4:15 PM

Time and place

When
  1. 18. Jun 2026, 8:30 AM - 4:15 PM
Organizer
Organizer: Vestre Viken HF Partners: LMI, Melanor, Health2B, Innovation Norway, Drammen Health Park
Where

Thon Hotell Drammen

Drammen Health Park

3004 Drammen

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Registration deadline: 16. Jun 2026

Program for the day
08:30–09:00

Registration and coffee

09:00–09:40

Opening of Innovation in Healthcare – Drammen 2026

  • Lisbeth Sommervoll, CEO, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust
  • Cathrine M. Lofthus, CEO, Norwegian Directorate of Health 
  • Nicolas E. Vaugelade-Baust M.D, Nordic Evidence Generation Director, Novartis Nordic/Western Europe
09:40–10:00

Drammen Health Park and innovation in the region

  • Gøril Bergh, CEO, Drammen Health Park AS
  • Sudhir Sharma, Director of Health and Welfare, Drammen Municipality
  • Cecilie Varsi, Dean, University of South-Eastern Norway
  • Merete Berg-Berthinussen, Chief county dental officer, Buskerud County.
  • Anders Debes, Medical Director, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust
10:00–10:30

Keynote: Innovation transforming health care

Tony Young, National Clinical Lead for Innovation, NHS England

10:30–10:50

Coffee break

10:50–11:20

Keynote: Innovation as the fourth pillar and the potential in Nordic collaboration

Rune Holdt, Director of Research and Innovation, Rigshospitalet & Co-director, Beta Health, Denmark 

11:20–11:50

Keynote: Transforming Patient Pathways: AI- Driven Risk Prediction and Cross-Sector Optimization in Healthcare

Jesper Eriksen, Head of Data Analytics, IQVIA Nordics

 

11:50–12:50

Lunch & poster session

12:50–13:50 Parallel sessions

Chair: Wesley Caple, Director of Medical Diagnostics Clinic, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust

 

AI in mammography screening

Solveig Hofvind, Head of the Section for Breast Cancer Screening, Cancer Registry of Norway

 

From data to diagnosis

Jesper Ravn, Senior Advisor in technology and ehealth, Akershus University Hospital

 

The VIKING project – Toward AI-based clinical decision support systems in neurology and clinical neurophysiology
Øystein Dunker, Postdoctoral fellow and research advisor, Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital

 

From an AI vision to benefits in clinical routine – how our public hospital together with the private sector formed one team as a key to success

Wesley Caple, Director of Medical Diagnostics Clinic, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust

Chair: Helge Røsjø, Director of Research and Innovation, Akershus University Hospital

 

Can Norwegian Health Data be used to establish control-arms for oncology-studies and also to understand dementia?

Steinar Thoresen, Medical Director, NordicRWE  

 

Advancing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) prevention through health and social data in Finland  

Annukka Kivela, Nordic Evidence Generation and Early Pipeline Lead, Novartis Nordic

 

Use of health data to create value for patients and services

Hege Edvardsen, Acting Medical director, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

 

Development of a world-leading patient-near high-sensitivity troponin test in Norway with SpinChip Diagnostics 

Helge Røsjø, Director of Research and Innovation, Akershus University Hospital

Chair: Prof. Ingeborg Hartz, Director of Research & Development, The Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation

 

Prehospital Continuous Non-Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring 

Charlotte Björk Ingul, Professor at NTNU and Nord University

 

Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation: Video in the home care service  

Stine Ness, The Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation
 

 

EMS – The glue and safety-net in tomorrow’s healthcare services

Steinar Olsen, Head of clinic for Prehospital services (Emergency medical services), Oslo University Hospital

 

Health Incident Commander in Virtual Reality 

Jon Richard Figenschou, Head of innovation, Division for Prehospital Services, Vestre Viken HF 

13:50–14:05

Coffee break

14:05–15:05

Parallel sessions

Chair: Øyvind Holme, Head of Research, Sørlandet Hospital Trust 

 

Speech-to-summary - Piloting AI for clinical documentation in Helse Vest

Cecilie Sneberg Grøtteland, Senior Advisor and Regional Project Leader, Helse Vest ICT

 

Useful Friction: Collaborating with Industry When You Have Different Agendas - Lessons from piloting Visiba Triage at Oslo Legevakt

Tore Basmo Bergh, Service Designer & Lead, Testlab at Oslo Emergency Ward

 

SMART journal: Supporting medical documentation with AI 

Kristine Kleivi Sahlberg, Head of Research & innovation, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust

Bjørn Fjukstad, Product Manager at DIPS AS

 

Surgical Decision Support 

Henrik Lykke Joakimsen, Medical Doctor and PhD candidate, University  Hospital of North Norway

Chair: Catherine Capdeville, Director of Business Policy - Melanor

 

The Future of Patient Monitoring: From Contactless Data Streams to Clinical Intelligence - based on industry collaboration

Bård Benum CEO and co-funder, Vital Things, og Lars Erik Laugsand, Assistant Clinical Director / Senior Consultant, Emergency Department, St. Olav’s Hospital

 
Training the Next Generation of Surgeons in the Era of Robotic Surgery 
John Christian Glent, MD, consultant general and visceral surgeon at Vestre Viken Hospital Trust 

 

Physical AI and Surgical Intelligence: From Operating Room to Operating System 

Ali Haddad, CEO and Founder, London Institute of Healthcare Engineering 

 

RecoVRy: Artificial Intelligence powered Virtual Reality Therapy in Psychosis Treatment

June Ullevoldsæter Lystad, Researcher/Associate Professor, Oslo University Hospital/University of Oslo

Chair: Elen Høeg, Head of Health2B, Health2B

 

Collaboration in Healthcare Services: Proven success stories of industry-clinician partnerships.  

Esther De Rooij, Head of Subregion North-West, Roche Diagnostics International 

 

«One way in» - joint mental health clinic for the municipality and the district psychaitric centre.

Christian Reissig, Head of strategy – Digital health care innovation, Vestfold Hospital

 

Advancing Nursing Practice Through Informatics, Competency, and AI-Enabled Education

Geir Arnhoff, CEO, Dossier

 

Collaboration and digitalization in the healthsector: Experiences from a Norwegian collaboration program

Stian Kristoffersen, MD,  Samhandlingsarena Kongsberg and Vestre Viken Hospital trust

15:05–15:20

Coffee break

15:20–16:00

Co-creation labs

About the session

In this session you will hear from Professor Tony Young, National Clinical Lead for Innovation at NHS England and Director for the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme along with 5 clinician entrepreneus who will discuss their journeys and key insights they have gained from being both a practicing clinician and a start-up founder.  

Tony YoungNational Clinical Lead for Innovation, NHS England 

 

About the session

Atrial fibrillation (AF) care pathways often have gaps in follow-up, symptom monitoring, and detection of recurrent arrhythmia, after patients leave the hospital. We have implemented digital home monitoring as part of our AF care pathways following cardioversion and ablation.

In this session, we will share our experience and wish to discuss ideas on how to scale and improve digital follow-up for all AF patients, and explore how similar models could be applied to other cardiac conditions.

Trygve BergeConsultant in Cardiology and Senior Researcher, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust 

About the session

- Patient-driven care, therapy and follow up (home-based injections, app-driven communication with hospital, self-monitoring/biological sampling) – benefit also for home care providers and hospital staff

- AI-driven automatic registries; pooling of AI-assisted data extraction from medical journals (home care/GP and hospital), paving the way for clinical research and improved care

- AI assisted decision of eligibility for screening programs and clinical trials (based on data from GP or hospital)

Odd Terje Brustugun, MD PhD, Head of Cancer Section, Drammen hospital, professor University of Oslo, and Siri Bråthen, MSc, project coordinator  

16:00–16:15 Conclusion and poster prize