Both in the hospital sector and among educational organizations, there is a significant need to quickly, easily, and scalably develop clinical competences in the digital treatment of patients admitted to their own homes (Hospital-at-Home).

The partners in the EU Interreg consortium, Nordic Digital Health & Education (NorDigHE), are working on exactly this.

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We are in the process of creating one of the world’s very first training courses for doctors and nurses aimed at improving the digital management of patients receiving hospital services (e.g., treatment and care) in their own homes. The training will ensure that the staff acquire the necessary digital skills and psychological confidence to deliver hospital care virtually in the patient’s own home.

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A lack of knowledge about this digital form of treatment and the need for enhanced digital competence among healthcare professionals are internationally recognized as the main reasons why it has been challenging to implement e-health initiatives in clinical practice, even though these are well documented.

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NorDigHE will build on experiences from, among others, Nordsjællands Hospital’s Influenz-er project and Lund University’s eChildHealth and ICope projects. These hospital projects have been developed and tested in recent years, showing promising models for a new Hospital-at-Home approach with particularly positive results.

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The NorDigHE consortium consists of public and private entities— a total of eight organizations— from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. The consortium includes two hospitals: Nordsjællands Hospital and Sahlgrenska University Hospital; two university colleges: Copenhagen University College and Østfold University College; one university: Lund University; and three companies: Mount Visual, Skillhabit, and Copenhagen Game Lab.

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By the end of the NorDigHE project, a digital Hospital-at-Home training course for healthcare professionals will be ready for implementation and rapid scaling across most Scandinavian hospitals and healthcare educational institutions. We also expect approximately 400 staff and students in the three countries to have completed the course.