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Meditude AB is again extending the team. After the end of the year, Anette Guy-James will start as health informatics consultant at the company.

Anette Guy-James previously worked with people with special needs and had a lot of contact with the healthcare system. When she then felt to try something new, she wanted to do something where she could benefit from her previous experiences.
“I wanted to build on something new, so I studied health informatics at Karolinska Institutet and the Royal Institute of Technology,” says Anette Guy-James.

Why did you search for Meditude?
“I’m thinking that it’s a fun and small group of colleagues, where I think I’ll enjoy very well. I have great colleagues right now, but I’m really looking forward to getting into the new gang. There is great potential for development and I would like to be part of the company’s progress. Many fun assignments are waiting.

What are your strengths and competence?
“A strength is to see solutions instead of problems. It works well and it leads to results. I am also flexible and open. I try to see problems from Healthcare and the patient’s perspective.

Facts: Anette Guy-James
Age: 49 years.
Family: Partner and an 18 year son.
Lives: Södermalm in Stockholm.
Interests: Train, socialize with friends and family, eat good food and travel. Trinidad and Tobago is favourite destination.

Meditude AB will soon have a new member of our team.
On May 8, Lennart Skärblom joins the Company as IT Management Consultant.

Lennart Skärblom M.Sc, started his professional career in the IT sector in the mid-1980s.
After working as a systems engineer for a number of different government agencies, he took the step over into Healthcare and Huddinge hospital in 1995. During the first two years Lennart worked as a technical project manager. In January 1997 he was asked to become head of the Department for Development.

− I was then the head of a group that was responsible for implementing a number of different eHealth systems in the Hospital, says Lennart Skärblom.

Thereafter he worked for six years as IT Director at St. Göran’s Hospital before moving to Stockholms sjukhem in 2008, where he holds the same position.
Over the years at Stockholms sjukhem he has, among other things, been responsible for, procurements, systems implementation and IT security.

-It has been very stimulating to follow the development in Healthcare, where the pace of change has been tremendously fast. Healthcare concerns us all and it is therefore important to develop systems that ease the lives of both staff and patients.

And now Lennart Skärblom is ready for new challenges.

Why Meditude?

− Primarily because Meditude is a forward thinking company with good values. After 19 years working as an IT Manager I have gained a lot of experience. I want to use my acquired skills to contribute in an area where there is a lot of potential. I am also well acquainted with the company’s CEO, Qemajl Imeri. He did his thesis work at Huddinge hospital when I a was manager there. It will be fun to work with him again.

What is your strength and skills?

-I believe that my analytical skills are my primary asset. I am able to see the big picture. I’m creative and can see solutions to problems.
In addition, I think that it is important to get input from staff in order to create a fair picture of reality that everyone can come to terms with, says Lennart Skärblom.

Facts: Lennart Skärblom

Age: 55 years.
Family: Wife and a 10-year-old daughter.
Lives: In Bromma.
Interests: Relaxing at the family’s country house.

Meditude, healthcare IT-surgeons, is a consulting firm with expertise in management issues, business development and systems development in health and social care.

We are members of the Trade Association for medical technology Swedish Medtech and we have collective agreements by Almega IT & telecoms businesses.

StandIN project aims to strengthen the future of healthcare through the drafting of a basis for establishing the framework for standards.
A project that includes companies, Government, counties/regions, SKL and universities.

Hilkka Linnarsson and Johan Lidén

The background to the StandIN project, which began at the end of last year on the initiative of Anders Lönnberg, national coordinator for the life science industry in Sweden, is that there is a desire to increase digitisation in healthcare from the Government.

− There are big profits to increase the speed of information transfer between different organisations. By proposing a framework of standards and guidelines will improve the situation of healthcare and long-term care, eHealth industry and research in the country, says Johan Lidén, Chairman of the steering group in StandIN project and business development manager for Norden on Intel Health and Life Sciences.

Increase the exchange of information

The project is financed by Vinnova’s strategic innovation program Medtech4Health with Swedish Medtech as project owner. The first phase of the project, which was completed on 17 June has focused on how to increase the exchange of information between different Healthcare information systems in a time efficient and money saving way.

The project team consisted of representatives from companies operating in Sweden.

− The project has gone through about 70 different standards in order to reach the standards that may be relevant for the Swedish healthcare. StandIN estimates that there are 18 international standards that meets the requirements of the project. StandIN gives no direct recommendations, but our mission is to present opportunities to shape the future of Healthcare information system with business conditions and needs as a starting point, says Johan Lidén.

Intense and complex

Hilkka Linnarsson, project leader for StandIN and senior project manager at Meditude, describes the StandIN project that very intensively, not least in view of the fact that the 3R, which consists of the Stockholm County Council, Västra Götaland and Skåne Region, as well as the county councils SUSSA, in Västerbotten, Västernorrland, Örebro, Södermanland and Blekinge, wanted to speed up the process for their procurement of Healthcare information systems.

− The timetable was cut down two months and during the five-month project, we have managed to do a job that normally takes a lot longer, says Hilkka Linnarsson.

At the same time she feels that it has been fun to lead a project that she really cares about.

− I have an extensive background as a nurse and I’m aware of the difficulties when information is not available when I need it. By facilitating the clinical documentation and information sharing across organizational boundaries and between different system minimizes the risk of misunderstanding in communication, says Hilkka Linnarsson.

Meditude, Healthcare IT-surgeons, is a consulting firm with expertise in management issues, business development and systems development in Healthcare.

We are members of the professional association for medical technology Swedish Medtech and we have collective agreement with Almega IT&Telekomföretagen.

Meditude AB, Healthcare IT-surgeons, will appear in various public contexts during the spring and summer.

-We want to show that we are here for the Healthcare sector, and because all our employees work with eHealth and leadership issues, it is natural for us to figure in these contexts, says Qemajl Imeri, expert in ICT within Healthcare and CEO of Meditude.

Lectures on Vitalis

On 5-7 April Meditude attends at Vitalis, the leading venue in eHealth, at Svenska Mässan in Gothenburg.

The event brings together over 3,000 participants during three days of 170 lectures an exhibition where vendors demonstrate their products and services.

Meditude will exhibit and attend with two lectures.

On april 6 between 9.30 and 10.00 will Qemajl Imeri together with Anette Guy-James and Mattias Agestam lecture on better patient care with reduced duplication of documentation in Stockholm and on Gotland.

On april 7 between the hours 13.30 and 14.00, will Hilkka Linnarsson (Meditude) together with Håkan Nordgren lecture about their Project StandIN, which aims to propose selection of eHealth standards for technical interoperability.

Quality registry Conference and Almedalsveckan

On april 12, is National quality registers Conference at Svenska Mässan in Gothenburg.

The Conference allows for the exchange of experiences between, Quality registers, Healthcare, business, and academy.

− Where we will participate in an exhibition area together with our client the Stockholm County Council and the Office of the National quality registers. We will then demonstrate transmission from EHR system to various quality registrys, “he says.

During week 27 is Almedalsveckan on Gotland and even then employee from Meditude will attend.

− Because we work with the public sector, it is important to meet people in lead positions at all levels. The week at Almedalen is a meeting place where we at Meditude are able to extend our arena to our customers, “said Qemajl Imeri.

Meditude, Healthcare IT-surgeons, is a consulting firm with expertise in management issues, business development and systems development in Healthcare.

We are members of the professional association for medical technology Swedish Medtech and we have collective agreement with Almega IT&Telekomföretagen.

There is a large digitization wave in health care.
Meditude AB is a specialized company in health care area, including working with system development and management issues.

Consulting firm started in the beginning of 2015.
-I have been working as a software developer and architect in health care since I completed my studies at the Royal Institute of technology in 2002. Health care is an area where there is constant development on the ICT side and that is also why Meditude in a short time reached high-impact on the market, says Qemajl Imeri, CEO and founder.

Meditude work with solutions that increase efficiency and strengthen innovation in health care.

− Since the national e-health strategy came there has been an intensive and collaborative work all over Sweden. Here at Meditude we can contribute with our competence. All employees have a background in health care and have a good understanding how to lead various projects in the area, he says.

Facilitate information transfer
Qemajl Imeri, the main project leader for a mission around structured data (SVD) in the Stockholm County Council.

Qemajl as main project leader has been a part of the management to develop infrastructure and methods to facilitate the transmission of clinical data from medical records to the Quality Registries.

− This saves time for healthcare professionals and they can work much more efficient. Double documentation has long been a problem in health care and by eliminating this it saves a lot of time that you can spend on the patient meeting.

− For example, SVD-project has delivered a solution which means that the County Council of Stockholm and Gotland has direct transfer from the medical records to five psychiatric Quality Registries. A rough calculation that we have done in the SVD project shows that healthcare professionals have saved approximately 5 200 hours of unnecessary double documentation for the year 2015 compared to if they themselves would have been forced to search for information in the medical record and then documented it in the Quality Registries webinterface. When the solution during 2016 will be introduced to all psychiatric care units the time savings will be considerably larger.

National Quality Registries
There are 107 national Quality Registries within the health care system, which is unique for Sweden.

− Unfortunately this gold mine is today created at the expense of healthcare professionals time. The healthcare professionals are forced to first enter data in its EHR system and then make a note of the same information in a national Quality Registry. One of SVD-project’s tasks is to create infrastructure and methods that enable the time-consuming duplication of documentation will disappear. It is exciting that Meditude can contribute in this work.

Welcomes new employees
Meditude have four employees.

-Although we are still in the starting blocks, we have already been through a wonderfully exciting trip. In the future, we will continue on our successful line and create added value for our customers through innovative thinking and innovation. In addition, we welcome new colleagues who are passionate about working with modern business development and system development, says Qemajl Imeri.

Meditude, healthcare IT-surgeons, is a consulting company that works with management issues, business development and systems development in health care. Our consultants are specialized in implementation of projects customized to healthcare needs.

We are members of the professional association for medical technology Swedish Medtech and we have collective agreement with Almega IT&Telekomföretagen.