Department of Health Research
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Our research focuses on population health, healthcare systems, services, stakeholders, and technologies to improve health and quality of life in the population, as well as sustainable and efficient healthcare services of high quality. Central themes are integrated care, digitalisation, health promotion, patient pathways and person-oriented treatment and follow-up. In close collaboration with stakeholders, services, and industry, we are an important contributor to Norwegian health industry.
Health research groups
Selected Projects
#Care4YoungTeeth<3
The project #Care4YoungTeeth<3 will contribute to improving the oral health of all adolescents, regardless of social, geographical or economic background.
AI based analytics of dental images
The main idea of the AI-Dentify project is to develop, test and validate a novel software to be commercialized by Boneprox AS as a service platform, which is scalable to the global market. The solution will make it easy for the dental industry...
BETTEReHEALTH: Human, technical and political factors for better coordination and support of e-health in Africa
BETTEReHEALTH aims to increase the level of international cooperation in eHealth, inform and strengthen end-user communities and policy makers in making the right decisions for the successful implementation of e-Health. BETTEReHEALTH will lead to...
Health care for children in child welfare
The purpose of the research project is to investigate whether children and young people in child welfare services receive necessary health care, and to identify important barriers to health care. The project will contribute so that child welfare...
MEDITATE: The medical digital twin for aneurysm prevention and treatment
MEDITATE (“the Medical Digital Twin for Aneurysm Prevention and Treatment”) will deliver a comprehensive framework of simulation and imaging technologies, targeted at industrial and clinical-translation to accelerate the process of personalised...
SMILE – Providing digitalised prevention and prediction support for ageing people in smart living environments
The main aim of SMILE is to create SMart Inclusive Living Environments (SLE) with novel eHealth solutions that enable ageing in place. Specifically, the SLE ecosystem will provide an infrastructure, that not only supports older people to live...