Funding from The Research Council of Norway

The Intervention Centre has in collaboration with Institute for Informatics at University of Oslo and Institute for Innovation and Economic Organization (-at Norwegian Business School) as one of two projects received funding from The Research Council of Norway's VERDIKT program. The Research Council of Norway has established this new program to stimulate innovation in the governmental sector. In the research project "From local breakthrough in knowledge to integration in medical practice" led by professor Erik Fosse, researchers from OUS, Intsitute for Informatics at University of Oslo and Institute for Innovation and Economic Organization at Norwegian Business School will investigate how to best facilitate implementation of high-tech medical procedures in Norwegian hospitals. The focus will be on a new mode of treatment (Trans Aortic Valve Implant-TAVI) in patients with severe heart disease. This type of treatment is characterised by new combinations of several concurrent technologies, and extensive cross-disciplinary collaboration. The approach developed in this projectis to be used in other and similar high-tech medical procedures in the future. More information about the project will follow shortly.