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INNOVATION IN HEALTH CARE

- Bridging the gap between clinic and industry

18.
juni
2026
  1. 18. jun. 2026, 08:30 - 16:15
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Time and place

When
  1. 18. jun. 2026, 08:30 - 16:15
Organizer
Organizer: Vestre Viken HF Partners: LMI, Melanor, Health2Be, Innovation Norway, Drammen Health Park
Where

Thon Hotell Drammen

Drammen Health Park

3004 Drammen

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Registration deadline: 18. mai 2026

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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: Rune Holt – Director of Research and Innovation, Rigshospitalet and  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

 

Tentative title: AI in detection of heart failure

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

 

TBA

 

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

 

Tentative title: Health data/register 

Steinar Thoresen – Medical Director, NordicRWE  

 

Tentative title: Use of Health Data for Patient Flow and Service Innovation (Cardiology) 

TBA - Novartis

 

Tentative title: Use of health data to create value for patients and services

Hege Edvardsen – Acting Medical director, 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 

 

Tentative title: Heart failure 

Svein Arne Monsen, Head of Prehospital Services, Nordland Hospital  Trust 

 

Use of Troponin Prehospital 

TBA – Ambulance Service Rotterdam 

 

Health Incident Commander VR 

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

 

TBA

13:50–14:05

Coffee break

14:05–15:05 Parallel sessions

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

 

Tentative title: “Speach to summary” trial 

TBA - Helse Vest ICT 

 

Tentative title: Red Robin – triage 

Tore Basmo Bergh - Lead TestLab, Oslo Emergency Ward 

 

Tentative title: KI in patient journals  

TBA - Vestre Viken HF/Sørlandet HF

 

Tentative title: Surgical Decision Support 

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

Chair: TBA - Melanor

 

TBA 

Bård Benum – Partner, Co-founder & CEO, Vitalthings AS 

 
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 

 

TBA 

June Ullevoldsæter Lystad – Psycologist, Oslo University Hospital 

 

Chair: Hege Edvardsen, Acting Medical director, GSK

 

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 

 
 
Tentative title: Central Referral Intake 

TBA - Sykehuset i Vestfold 

15:05–15:20

Coffee break

15:20–16:00 Co-creation labs
16:00–16:15 Conclusion and poster prize