Akershus and HP

> Today we visited akershus and the HP health center of excellence in
> Oslo. We started at HP with the vision of HP, Cisco and Imatiss on the
> digital hospital. Two main drivers are Business Intelligence and
> Unified Communications. BI is used to measure performance and help
> business making it better. In healthcare the pressure on staff is
> getting bigger due to the aging population. UC will make collaboration
> and evertday tasks more easy! The akeshus is al new hospital that will
> open this week. It uses soms of the technologies we saw earlier. The
> building is brand new which makes it easier to make a new it
> infrastructure without the burden of the old stuff. It was great to
> see this stuff in action!

We are almost leaving for studytrip 2008!

Only one nights sleep and then we are off! Tomorrow we are leaving in two groups: one is heading for Oslo and the other to Stockholm. We will be united again in Stockholm and then moving to Helsinki. companies we will be visiting are HP Centre of Excellence Healthcare Technology, Nye Ahus Hospital, Cordial, SEB, VTT, Arabianranta, Finland Prime Ministers office, Soland Nokia Research Center in Helsinki. Beside theses companies we are visiting the Stockholm School of Economics and Helsinki Technology University.

Another packed but promising programme with a lot of learning (and some fun of course) ahead of us! Follow our findings here!