showcase wellness

SHOWCASE
WELLNESS
TECHNOLOGY
Oulu l Finland
Wellness Trends
Consumerism
Gamification,
usability
Self-tracking,
self-care, managing
health at home
Smart
environment
Tele-health care
Mobile solutions,
social media,
cloud services
Prevention
Independent
living
Communities,
user-generated
health care
Health and Wellness is a Megatrend
Main market drivers are aging population
(600 million people over 60), chronic diseases
(diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, hypertension and certain
cancers) and overweight (1,6 billion people).
(Source: World Health Organisation)
Escalating costs and lack of resources drive new innovations and
result in a rapidly growing field of business and one of the most
promising global markets.
For many health care and wellness companies, Oulu is one of the
leading environments for research, product development and pilot
projects. As a result several new products and services related to health
care field are being created and tested for the first time in Oulu.
In Oulu region, 14.000 people work for 1.400 companies and communities
within the health and social services sector.
Leading Company Showcases
Caritas Foundation
Business brief: Caritas Foundation provides a
wide range of high quality services for the elderly
and disabled people in Northern Finland.
Product category: Care centers, care homes and
24/7 home care for elderly and disabled people,
health care, rehabilitation, respite care, social
activities
Main milestones achieved so far:
 5 care centers opened 2003–2010
 4 international TEKES-funded development projects in 2009–2013
 Outstanding service provider in Oulu region
 3. generation care center will be opened in 2013
Looking for international co-operation partners to
develop new solutions in the field of social care.
Contact person: Matias Itkonen, CFO
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 45 672 1414
www.caritas-saatio.fi
Corame Oy
Business brief: Our mission is to provide health
and wellbeing monitoring solutions both for professionals and individual consumers.
Product category: Solutions for quality-of-life
health monitoring
Main milestones achieved so far:
 We are number one solution provider in Finland in perceived quality-of-life monitoring
 Currently over 35 units in 11 hospitals or nursing homes using our solutions
 Coronaria Oy, one of the leading service
operators in the health sector, is one of our main customers with over 10 of their units using our solutions.
Contact person: Mikko Katajamäki, CEO
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 40 415 4253
www.corame.fi
Innokas Medical Oy
Business brief: Contract design and manufacturing
of Medical Devices behind global world-class
medical brands as well as specialized niche players.
Product Category: Engineering, design, manufacturing and life-cycle management services for
Medical Devices
Main milestones achieved so far:
 ISO9001:2000 and ISO13485:2003 certificates for design and manufacture of Medical Devices
 FDA registration for all sites (Oulu, Kempele;
Helsinki; Rakvere, Estonia).
Contact Person: Jouni Ihme, Managing Director
Contact Info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 400 689 824
www.innokasmedical.fi
Logica
Business brief: Logica is a Pan-European IT service
provider having innovative solutions for multiple
industries such as healthcare and pharma. We
understand healthcare processes and focus on our
customers’ customers – in healthcare on patients –
to help our clients to provide efficient, high quality
services.
Product category: IT software, solutions and service
for healthcare and other industries; both industry
specific systems such as EPR, PHR, and generic systems such as invoicing, payroll, etc.
Main milestones achieved so far:
 We are #1 healthcare IT provider in Finland.
 60 % of Finnish population is taken care by Logica’s EHR and/or HIS/PAS products in specialized care and 42 % in primary care.
Contact person: Janne Aaltonen, Medical Director
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 50 410 8237
www.logica.fi
Mawell Oy
Business brief: Mawell solutions provide increased efficiency to healthcare and welfare
professionals – more time to care.
Product category: Healthcare and welfare
services and solutions
Main milestones achieved so far:
 We have brought to Finnish healthcare
organizations the next generation diagnostic and medical imaging tools, provided citizens an online access to health and social care services and created centralized call centers for health care organizations.
Contact person: Anssi Ylimaula,
Chief Operating Officer
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 20 768 0706
www.mawell.com
Polar Electro Oy
Business brief: Designing, engineering and
manufacturing Training Computers, Fitness
management and Coaching solutions for
exercisers, sports enthusiasts, professional
athletes, fitness clubs, professional sport teams,
education sector and fitness equipment
manufacturers.
Product category: Sports electronics
Main milestones achieved so far:
 Inventor of the first wireless heart rate monitor
 Pioneer and Global market leader in Training computers
 Worldwide distribution.
Contact person: Kirsti Laasio, Group Brand Director
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 8 5202 100
www.polar.fi
Oy ProWellness Ltd
Business brief: ProWellness has developed and
marketed regional solutions for the prevention,
care and management of long-term conditions
for public and private healthcare organisations
since 1996.
Product category: Software product solutions
for healthcare and wellness
Main milestones achieved so far:
 ProWellness has a large customer base in Finland: in more than 50 % of all the Health Districts ProWellness solutions are used in primary and/or secondary care.
 In the UK and Ireland ProWellness has 15
customer sites and made a market entry to India in 2011.
Contact person: Markku Savusalo, Vice President
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 424 5555 503
www.prowellness.com
Respecta Oy
Business brief: Respecta Oy offers Finland’s
broadest and most comprehensive selection
of well-researched and individualized assistive
devices and related services.
Product category: Prostheses, orthoses, footwear, insoles, assistive devices for movement,
daily routines and vehicles. Assistive device
rental and maintenance service
Main milestones achieved so far:
 Well-known and trusted supplier and partner for health care districts, municipalities, insurance companies and individual consumer customers
 Quality management fulfills ISO 9001 standards for quality and ISO 14001 standards for environment.
Contact person: Sasu Leskelä, Director,
Customers and Services
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 40 348 8567
www.respecta.fi
Tieto
Business brief: Tieto helps healthcare and
welfare organizations to improve the quality
and efficiency of their services. We enable our
customers to optimize processes, reduce waiting
times, secure the flow of information, make
high-quality decisions and empower citizens.
Product category: Healthcare and welfare
services and solutions
Main milestones achieved so far:
 The leading healthcare & welfare ICT solution provider in the Nordic countries with a strong position in Germany and the Netherlands
 Over 2.000 customers and their 300.000
professionals in 10 countries.
Contact person: Minna Rautakorpi, Marketing
and Communications Manager
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 45 261 6888
www.tieto.com/healthcare
Videra Oy
Business brief: Videra Virtual Care is a versatile
service concept that makes use of the latest
available video conferencing technology.
A real-time video link provides the social services
to health care sector and health care professionals
with revolutionary cost-effective solutions.
Product category: Virtual Care solutions that are
using the latest videoconferencing technology
Main milestones achieved so far:
 Videra Virtual Care service has more than 250 customers from elderly people to rehabilitation patients.
Contact person: Erja Kantola, Account Manager
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 10 3226 254
www.videravirtualcare.fi
www.videra.com
New StartUp Showcases
Eneris Solutions
Business brief: IT-solutions to optimize laborious
processes in company operations.
Product category:
a) Tailored solutions to optimize laborious processes
b) HIFRA-tool to analyze risk of hip fracture
Main milestones achieved so far:
 Well-known and trusted software co-operation partner for health care companies
 HIFRA-product is waiting for comprehensive clinical tests
We are looking for enterprise customers or
potential co-operation partners in the field of
health care.
Contact person: Tuomas Fabritius, Managing Director
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 50 534 5311
www.eneris.com
FAM Sports
Business brief: FAM Sports is a non-invasive
device to assess neuromuscular loading of an
athlete, to optimize training effect and recovery,
and avoid overtraining.
Product category: Athletic training, sport
performance improvement
Main milestones achieved so far:
 Clinically validated, first-ever neuromuscular
loading assessment tool for personal use
 Professional version of the product on the market and used by professional sports organizations in Europe
 Consumer version to be released in H1/2012.
Contact person: Katriina Otsamo, COO
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 44 551 3005
www.famsports.com
NewWell Ltd.
Business brief: All automated remote stress monitoring
for physical load management and performance
improvement.
Product category: Activity monitoring devices, Tracking,
Wellness Technology
Main milestones achieved so far:
 Interdisciplinary scientific R&D
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2006−2010 for military sector
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2010− for wellness sector
 2010 MILitUP concept release, pilot customers (military sector)
 2011 Cooperation with American Defense
International (ADI)
 2011 Home Coach concept release (mobile SW, Android OS; Android Market).
Seeking distributors in Finland, Europe and North
America.
Contact person: Jukka Huovinen, CEO
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 50 442 1267
www.newwell.fi
Otometri Oy
Business brief: With help of Otometri’s Ear Control
-internet service parents can monitor the status of
children’s ears relating to ear infections at home.
The service makes it possible to prevent unnecessary medical visits and useless usage of antibiotics.
Product category: Non-invasive medical devices
and equipment for home use
Main milestones achieved do far:
 Product Launch Q4/2010
 10 000+ measurements done until Q2/2011
Seeking distributors in Finland, Europe and
North America.
Contact person: Manne Hannula, CEO
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 45 321 9440
www.otometri.fi
Valkee Oy
Business brief: Develops and produces Bright Light
Headsets for people struggling with mood disorders,
especially seasonal affective disorder.
Product category: Medical devices with CE Class II(a)
certification
Main milestones achieved so far:
 Invention of a new and more effective way to deliver light into brain via auditory canals
 Excellent clinical results in intervention involving patients with severe seasonal affective disorder in 2008–2011
 Product launch in March 2010
 The Brain imaging results suggesting that the brain tissue is inherently light-sensitive in May 2011
 Showing that the human brain is light-
sensitive by localizing the photoreceptor protein OPN3 in the brain in August 2011.
Contact person: Juuso Nissilä, CSO, Co-Founder
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 40 701 9897
www.valkee.com
Wisecom Oy
Business brief: Developing and producing empowering well-being applications for families and communities based on positive psychology and solutionfocused approach.
Product category: Mobile and internet applications
for enhancing well-being and motivation in different
age groups
Main milestones achieved so far:
 Patent Application 2/2011
 Launch of WiseSteps® Student 3/2011
 Launch of WiseSteps® Kids 8/2011
 Pilot and research projects in co-operation Contact person: Ari Rautiainen, CEO
Contact info: [email protected]
with OULLabs, CIE and Ritaharju School
Tel. +358 50 534 3140
Looking for business partners in the European and
US Markets.
www.wisecom.fi
Expert Organizations
Oulu Wellness Institute - OWI
Business brief: We support companies and other
actors in the commercialization of the world-class
competence and services of the wellness sector.
Product category: Wellness industry knowledge
cluster/Non-profit
Main milestones achieved so far:
 We have created networks, arranged partner-
ships, evaluated business ideas, coached
entrepreneurs, created wellness industry
community and helped entrepreneurs on their
path toward global marketplace.
 We have also created two event concepts: StartUp Week and Wellness Business Club.
Contact person: Eeva Kiuru, Executive Director
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 40 588 6237
www.owi.fi
www.startupweek.fi
The brochure is sponsored by Oulu Wellness Institute and OSKE Health and Well-being Cluster Programme
OSKE Health and Well-being Cluster Programme
Business brief: OSKE Health and Well-being
Cluster Programme is a development platform
for health and wellness services and associated
technologies. The objective of the cluster is to
support successful businesses and link research
to commercialization.
Product category: Wellness industry development/
Non-profit
Main milestones achieved so far:
 More than 600 companies have participated in the cluster’s activities in seminars, fairs etc.
 The cluster has initiated new international
networks such as EuMHA and NIMAC which have an impact on innovation within the sector.
 More than 200 companies have got substantial assistance to their business development in forms of coaching, training and networking.
The brochure is sponsored by Oulu Wellness Institute and OSKE Health and Well-being Cluster Programme
Contact person: Ilpo Kuronen, Programme Director
Contact info: [email protected]
Tel. +358 45 139 3757
www.hyvinvointiklusteri.fi