SINTEF projects

Chatbots for better and more efficient mental health services for young people.

HiPerNav will train early stage researchers (biomedical engineers and medical doctors) to become international leading experts in key areas of expertise through a novel coordinated plan of individual research projects addressing specific bottlenecks...

Municipal mental health and substance abuse work includes prevention, mapping and investigation, treatment, rehabilitation, follow-up and harm reduction.

CEPHOS-LINK was an EU FP7-project aimed at comparing different types of health service interventions in terms of differences in rehospitalisation outcomes in adult patients, who have been discharged with a psychiatric diagnosis from hospital.

The main goal of the project is to design, prepare and optimize nanoformulations of antibacterial drugs in order to improve the therapy of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and MRSA infections in European patients.

The main goal of this project is to build the necessary competence for developing safe and efficient nanoparticles for diagnosis and personalized therapy of cancer. We aim at developing nanoparticles that are more efficient and have less adverse...

PROJECT INTEGRATE aims at gaining valuable insights into integrated care, starting from the premise that it offers benefits for patients and for Europe’s health and social security systems, which are facing the challenges of an ageing population and...

The goal of MineHealth is to provide long term sustainability of well-being, health and work ability among workers in the mining industry. This will be achieved by increased knowledge on how to cope with the environment and to adopt preventive...

The purpose of the project was to describe the use of health services, and associated costs in the last years of life, and to identify factors that affect consumption at individual and system levels. The conditions for the qualitative good terminal...

The main goal is to improve the clinical understanding of relationships between clinical/radiological characteristics, disease courses and treatment responses in brain tumor patients. This will enable improved classification and improve patient...

SINTEF and St. Olavs hospital/NTNU are developing new technology for planning and guiding of bronchoscopy. We do this through several different sub-projects in USIGT-Lung.

The overarching aim of the REFINEMENT project is to look at the relationship between different models of health care financing systems and the extent to which mental health care services can meet the goals of high quality, equity, efficiency and...

Norwegian national advisory unit for Ultrasound and image-guided therapy (USIGT) has expertise in ultrasound and image-guided treatment. This includes ultrasound in neurosurgery, ultrasound in laparoscopy, ultrasound in endovascular treatment of eg...

SINTEF has played a key role in the development of various financing schemes in health care in Norway. From the early development of DRGs, until the more recent changes in the overall block funding and capitation.