INNOVATION IN HEALTH CARE

- Bridging the gap between clinic and industry

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, Health2Be, Innovation Norway, Drammen Health Park
Where

Thon Hotell Drammen

Drammen Health Park

3004 Drammen

Sign up

Registration deadline: 18. May 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 
09:40–10:00 Drammen Helsepark and innovation in the region
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: Sara Hustache, Director of Research and Innovation, University  Hospitals of Strasbourg, France
11:20–12:10

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

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

12:10–12:50

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

 

AI in detection of heart failure

Jesper Ravn, Senior Advisor in technology and ehealth, Akershus 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

Prehospital services 

Chair: TBA 

 

Prehospital Continuous Non-Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring 

Charlotte Björk Ingul, Professor at NTNU and Nord University

 

Prehospital use of Troponin blood test

Barbra Backus – Emergency physician and Researcher, Netherlands  

 

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 

 

Bridging clinic and industry: how speech‑to‑summary moved from pilot to practice

Cecilie Sneberg Grøtteland - senior advisor, regional project leader Helse Vest IKT

 

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

 

KI in patient journals  

TBA - Vestre Viken HF/Sørlandet HF

 

Surgical Decision Support 

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

Chair: TBA - 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: TBA

 

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

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

 
TBA  

Jesper Eriksen – Head of Data Analytics, IQUVIA 

 
 
«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

 

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
16:00–16:15 Conclusion and poster prize