Solutions

NHI offers flexible, cost-effective and standardised solutions for a modern and democratic digital health and medical care that strives to bridge social, cultural, infrastructural and geographic distances in organisations or communities.

Virtual Health Rooms (VHR)

A virtual health room is a customised, unstaffed health room which is open 24 hours a day for recipients of care in rural areas.

What you can do in a health room

Municipal residents can enter one of these rooms and check their blood pressure, for example and take blood, blood sugar and warfarin samples. These devices will be interlinked with district medical officers and the health care service’s case note systems via a central server. When necessary doctors and nurses who are in another area can connect to these rooms via video links, and the rooms are equipped with a range of devices for different purposes.
The rooms function as a self-service facility where it is simple for people to screen themselves and make initial contact with a doctor.
Local service units such as schools and retirement homes can also use the room and its equipment as part of school tuition and day-to-day care work. This way they can, using these modern tools, discover work methods that could enable schools and elderly care providers to tele-collaborate with other schools and retirement homes in Sweden and the rest of the world.

The whole world in focus

In NHI’s virtual health rooms, a range of equipment, tools and methods are being developed and used that are part of different social solutions, not just for Sweden but the whole world.
This includes virtual health rooms customised for city dwellers to test their blood pressure in a supermarket or travellers who need to need to consult a health care professional at the airport
It also includes virtual health rooms adapted for people living in other types of rural areas, based on their needs and circumstances. The goal is to offer people better service.

Virtual Emergency Room

In a virtual emergency room, the focus is on optimising the communication between doctor and patient. It is also important that the doctor has a clear overview of the room, as one or several nurses will probably be with the patent. The doctor also has access to a suspended video camera for examining wounds, etc. in close-up. From their clinics, the doctors can view the supervision parameters that the nurse has connected up. The doctor can also listen to the patient’s heart and lungs via a remote stethoscope. The emergency room has the same equipment as the virtual health rooms but without the blood test devices.

”Investing in virtual health rooms is an important step in our new, modern health care. They help reduce the accelerating costs, enhance the effectiveness of health care and make it more accessible by bringing us closer to the patients.”
Björn Eriksson, regional director for Jämtland Härjedalen