Testing & Co-creation
OuluHealth Labs is a co-creation platform that enables cooperation between health and social care providers, research and innovation organisations and companies. OuluHealth Labs consist of four test bed facilities, which provide an integrated development environment and end-users’ feedback for every phase of a R&D process.
OuluHealth Labs offer
1. User – oriented development and testing services.
2. Facilities and equipment for rent.
3. Presentations of products and facilities.
4. Trainings and expert-created packages tailored to the specific needs of companies and other target groups.
5. Sparks funding opportunity for companies to test / pilot health innovations. (For more information regarding Sparks funding, contact Olli Löytynoja, olli.loytynoja@businessoulu.com, phone number: +358 400 340 028)
OuluHealth Labs
If you want to develop your product or service in a hospital environment
A test environment for specialized health care products and services in the heart of its provider, Oulu University Hospital. It offers all you need to test and develop your product or service in an authentic hospital environment and with genuine users.
Read more about OYS TestLab
If you want to develop your product or service in social and healthcare processes, citizen’s homes
Pohde WellbeingLab enables developing your solution and innovating with real end-users: customers, patients and professionals in social and healthcare centers and homes. This model has been co-created by social and healthcare services in the City of Oulu.
Read more about Pohde WellbeingLab
If you want to develop your product or service in simulated health and social environments
Oamk SimLab provides versatile possibilities for testing and developing products and services and training the staff. It is possible to utilize both students’ from different study programs and teachers’ feedback during research and innovation processes.
Read more about Oamk SimLab
If you want to develop your product or services in the field of medical imaging
Mittlab is a medical imaging teaching and test laboratory on the premises of Oulu University Hospital. It offers wide variety of physical and virtualized medical imaging tools for research, education and product development purposes.
Read more about Mittlab
OuluHealth Labs Label
OuluHealth Labs has developed a systematic approach to evaluate digital and technological solutions and innovations. Based on this evaluation process, OuluHealth Labs can give as an acknowledgment an OuluHealth Labs Label for the company and its solution that has passed the process. Labels are divided into three different categories.
Tested
What can be evaluated?
The solution is targeted at the social and healthcare sector and is still being developed. The developer / company wants to get feedback for further development process. Another option is that the solution already exists, but it is not directly targeted at the social and healthcare sector. In this case, a company wants to test the feasibility of their solution to social and healthcare sector.
What is evaluated during the process?
Solution’s feasibility, usability and safety (where applicable), and plausible benefits and provided added value for the social and healthcare sector.
Who conducts evaluation?
Social and healthcare professionals, other end-user groups that are involved in testing, and actors that coordinate the testing process.
Requirements for the label
A completed testing process in accordance with the testing plan. Testing has improved the utilization of the solution in a new environment or testing has provided information about the possible utilization of the solution in a testing environment. Testing has improved further development of the solution.
Co-created
What can be evaluated?
A solution or idea that maturity is intended to develop, or a solution or idea that feasibility is intended to develop in the context of social and healthcare.
What is evaluated during the process?
Implementation of a co-creation process, solution’s feasibility, usability and safety (where applicable), and plausible benefits and provided added value for the social and healthcare sector.
Who conducts evaluation?
Actors that coordinate the co-creation process, participants who are involved in co-creation.
Requirements for label
The maturity of the solution has evolved during the co-creation process, or / and as the result of the co-creation, the utilization of the solution in social and healthcare context has become possible, or / and as the result of the co-creation, the prototype has been developed based on innovation. The solution that is developed during the co-creation process solves a real need-based problem or a challenge.
Approved
What can be evaluated?
The solution already exists and it is targeted at the social and healthcare sector.
What is evaluated during the process?
Solution’s feasibility, usability and safety.
Who conducts evaluation?
Social and healthcare professionals and / or other appropriate end- users.
Requirements for label
Completed evaluation forms, a completed evaluation session.
Acknowledged companies
11/2022
Ne Device SW / Vitacam
More information about the label for Vitacam
11/2022
Hoivita Oy / Respiratory rate remote monitoring solution
More information about the label for Hoivita Oy
Note:
Minor updates to definitions and evaluation criteria are possible.
In addition, it is possible to have digiHTA-evaluation. Read more here.
Contact information
OYS Testlab / Pohde WellbeingLab
Timo Alalääkkölä
Manager of Testing and Innovations
tel. +358 40 561 4390
timo.alalaakkola@ppshp.fi
www.ppshp.fi/en
www.ouka.fi/oulu/english
Oamk Simblab
Eija Hautala
Senior Lecturer
tel. +358 50 5820070
eija.hautala@oamk.fi
www.oamk.fi/en/
Mittlab
Miika Nieminen
Professor
Chief physicist
tel. +358 40 5518246
miika.nieminen@oulu.fi
www.oulu.fi/en