In 2023, the five regions invested a total of DKK 3.1 billion. DKK in IT and technology.
This is an increase of 7% compared to the previous year.
Investments are being made in healthcare solutions like never before in the five Danish regions. This shows completely new figures from Mercell and the IT branch.
In 2023, the regions invested a total of DKK 3.1 billion. DKK in IT and technology, which is an increase of 7% compared to 2022. It is especially the Capital Region and Central Jutland that have invested in healthcare solutions.
“There is still massive investment in digital solutions for the healthcare sector, which is good, as it both helps to improve the patient experience and ease the workload of the staff. At the same time, we must also note that there is a big difference in how much the individual regions invest in the health of the future,” says Christoffer Strøier, Group Product Director at Mercell.
If you look at the IT investments per citizen, it is Region Central Jutland and Region Southern Denmarkwhich is at the top with respectively DKK 953 and DKK 916 invested per inhabitant in the region.
Massive investments in hardware, software and IT solutions
The regions have particularly invested in the purchase of hardware and software (DKK 1.2 billion) and software development (DKK 1.0 billion) in 2023.
If you ask the Capgemini Research Institute, which monitors the healthcare market globally, investments are particularly being made in telemedicine platforms, clinical decision support systems, wearable technology and AI solutions.
The IT branch emphasizes, however, that there is also huge potential in using already functioning solutions.
“Although many new solutions are being invested in, there is huge potential in using many of the existing and well-tested technologies that are already out there. Unfortunately, the good pilot tests are all too often allowed to die with the pilot, because we lack good tools to support the spread of the good projects,” says Freddy Lykke, director of Sirenia and head of the IT Branch’s Policy Board for Digital Health.
An analysis from the IT branch shows that up to 3,000 healthcare workers can be released, while the “good patient process” is strengthened and decisions and workflows are improved, if you simply spread a few mature and user-friendly technologies throughout the healthcare system.
The IT branch has also played a role with a number of concrete proposals on how to improve the Danish healthcare system, several of which have been included in the Health Commission’s recently published recommendations.
Source: it-kanalen.dk
