Gary Linnéusson

When healthcare faces an ageing population, increasing demands and new treatment methods, more advanced decision support is needed. Through continued collaboration between the Västra Götaland Region and the University of Skövde, simulation will be used as a decision support tool to evaluate future strategies before they are implemented in reality.

The project aims to make processing systems more resource-efficient and extend their lifespan. This will be achieved by developing and demonstrating methods based on systematic and digital models. The methods will be used in the Swedish automotive industry to jointly plan, design, and use adaptable and sustainable processing systems for multiple generations of products. The objective is for the project to provide new knowledge, new methods, and best practices and guidelines.

Skaraborg needs to transition to meet the welfare challenge, the industrial transformation, and the goal of a more sustainable development. Achieving this requires many different efforts that many different actors also carry out at various levels in a complex puzzle. The "Network City Skaraborg" strategy contains proposals on how this can be achieved.

To break the dependence on fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, society needs to transition to renewable electricity. For this transition to be feasible, existing energy systems must be developed. This is a complex task involving multiple stakeholders.

The project will focus on strengthening the implementation of the transformation of health care. The aim is to use quantitative calculations, alternative scenarios and simulations to describe how skill needs, supply and delivery of healthcare in the Västra Götaland region (VGR) may change up to 2040, both as a result of external environmental factors such as demographic pressure, medical development and the internal improvement work.

To promote innovation in healthcare, the innovation system needs to be developed, with the first step being to map the existing innovation system. In this project, Skaraborg Hospital will serve as a pilot to gain an understanding of the innovation system within and surrounding a hospital.

The goal of this simulation study is to show what effects different closer care interventions can have on the number of emergency room visits and inpatient care days for the sickest elderly and frail elderly groups.