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Over the years Sahlgrenska International Care has had a small but constant in-flux of Japanese dentists. Today there are a number of connections and partnerships between the Institute of Odontology and our former postgraduate dentists now working in Japan.

Our educational offer has however changed the last years and now also consists of shorter courses for groups of dentists as well as customized courses in Medicine at our Centres of Excellence. Linda Olsson, Education manager, and Paulina Sarbinowska, Marketing manager, went to Japan to investigate the interest for new collaborations in this area.

After a careful selection together with local expertise at Business Sweden’s Tokyo office, we met with three private university hospitals with different profiles.Juntendo University Hospital main site is located in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.

It has been in operation since 1838 but as it does at Sahlgrenska University Hospital the tradition and renewal go hand in hand. On a national level Juntendo stands out in one area in particular, Sports medicine.

At Showa University Hospital Dean Tadashi Hisamitsu welcomed us together with his colleagues from the Departments of Urology, Radiology and the International Exchange Center. Besides the Graduate school in Medicine there is one in Dentistry, Pharmacy as well as the latest addition – Nursing and Rehabilitation sciences. The emphasize on clinical practice and a team based working approach is similar to the one found in a Swedish healthcare environment.

During the last meeting we got a round tour of Keio University Hospital.

They are expanding and recently opened up a new building were different Centres of Excellence are gathered.

It is always inspiring to hear about the thought behind a new centre and even more so to see the end result. At the Centre for Preventive medicine the one stop shop model allows the patient to undergo all the checkups, not only in one place, but in a logical step by step order circlewise.

As the in-flow of patients from neighboring countries is increasing they are putting a lot of effort to create new routines for the coordination of this group of customers.

We thank all of you who took the time to meeting with us and look forward to continue the discussions about possible collaborations going forward.

Let us introduce Motoi Ishikawa, Specialist in Orthodontics, and Hiroshi Miyashita, Specialists in Periodontology and Endodontics, working in Tokyo, Japan. They completed their postgraduate training at the Institute of Odontology at the University of Gothenburg which is ranked among the top three dental universities in the world.

The expertise acquired during the years in Sweden is now spread to the Tokyoites through their own practices in the Ginza and Roppongi districts.

Sahlgrenska I.C:s Education manager Linda Olsson and Marketing manager Paulina Sarbinowska are currently in Japan meeting with dental clinics and university hospitals around the Tokyo area. The purpose is to investigate the interest for the specialist training services that we export.

Motoi and Hiroshi, thank you for being great ambassadors for the Institute of Odontology, the Public Dental Service in Region Västra Götaland and Sahlgrenska I.C.

RegioStars Awards is an annual event which aims to put light on successful projects within regional development, and is arranged by the European Commission’s directorate general for regional and urban policy. This year, one of the themes is smart growth. It is under this category that the BRIDGE programme at Sahlgrenska Science Park, supported by the European Regional Development Fund, has been acknowledged.

The idea of the project is to provide business support for Swedish companies that are involved in the medtech industry, and this in order to strengthen their role on the international market. This is done by roadmapping and establishment of partnerships, which has resulted in 27 medtech ideas that have been test pilots within the programme. In the jury’s motivation, they state that the successful programme has strengthened Sahlgrenska Science Park’s position as an important partner for regional development and smart growth and as an attractive business partner for medtech startups with growth potential.

The project will now, along with other finalists, be judged on certain criteria. These involve the innovative character of the project, expected financial sustainability and possibility to spread the project as a good practice to other regions.

Congratulations to our neighbour on the Medical Hill in Gothenburg. We are looking forward to the announcement of the winners on October 11. The award ceremony acts as a part of the annual European Week of Regions and Cities.

Earlier this year Sahlgrenska I.C., our fellow Care companies in Sweden and Swecare published a report on how to create better conditions for the export of Swedish healthcare services. As we continue the dialogue with the Department for Promotion of Sweden, Trade and CSR and the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, we were once again on site in Almedalen advocating the importance of this issue.

As usual the programme was extensive and healthcare the number one subject when it comes to the amount of seminars and events. The themes in focus vary from year to year, but as last year healthcare’s digital future was among the ones on top of the agenda.

But to us as a company with international customers, one seminar particularly caught our eye. Docrates Cancer Centre in Helsinki, Finland, shared their experiences on how to offer cancer patients care under one roof throughout the duration of the treatment and follow-up. This attracts many patients from other countries, every fourth patient and from 50 different countries to be more exact.

Simplifying the often complicated treatment chains allows patients to focus on becoming healthier, not having to waste time on trying to find the right way through the system. This patient-centered approach is something we know that Sahlgrenska University Hospital is working hard on to implement within certain areas, breast cancer treatment is just one of several examples. In this way we are able to offer patients a better customer experience, which the public healthcare system must continue to work on improving as the patient becomes more informed and the regulations create an easy path to cross border care.

To summarize, one should not underestimate the power of healthy benchmarking. All healthcare organizations are different while at the same time sharing a common ground. Once in a while it is important to look up from your own reality and gaze on others. It is not about finding a copy paste solution, but to question the ways things are done in your own backyard.

Sahlgrenska International Care (Sahlgrenska I.C.), in cooperation with the Swedish-Bosnian umbrella organization Integrium and the Bosnian Federation of the Red Cross, has just completed a major medical equipment donation in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

What does Cecilio Santander, Gastroenterologist, from Madrid and Brigitte Shmoll-Hauer, Nuclear medicine physician, from Vienna have in common? They have both been selected to participate in the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE) Exchange programme. Together with Chalmers University of Technology, Region Västra Götaland is the proud host of this year’s edition.

A unique place is currently under construction at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Here different medical specialties will share a common space, all with one focus – to offer minimally invasive surgery with the use of state of the art imaging and intervention technology.

Sweden and Sahlgrenska University Hospital has come a long way with the patient centered approach in health care. Challenges remain, but some medical areas have come further than others. Today they got the opportunity to share their story with participants at the International Forum for Quality and Safety in Health Care.

We are back in office on March 29th.