We are pleased to announce that Hanna Puhakka and Sanna Reponen joined Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) in the beginning of March. Hanna Puhakka has been appointed Vice President, New Markets and she will be leading NHG’s growth in new business and markets especially internationally and will be located in Zurich, Switzerland. Sanna Reponen has been…

On the 1st of January the municipality of Bornholm was the third municipality to open a youth counseling center for sexual and psychosocial health among adolescents, in Denmark called “Ungdomsmodtagelse” or “UngMod”. But what is a “Ungdomsmodtagelse” and why it is a good idea? Together with the pharmaceutical company Bayer we at Nordic Healthcare Group…

Key take-aways from the ICHOM Conference 2022 NHG had the pleasure to participate in ICHOM’s 2022 conference in Boston. This conference celebrated the 10th anniversary of ICHOM – the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement – founded in 2012. What a thrilling event with more than 500 healthcare leaders from 42 different countries discussing and…

Interview with Danske Regioner’s Executive Vice President, Health Politics Erik Jylling As the health and social services reform in Finland is moving forward with pace, and new wellbeing services counties start their operations as from 1st January 2023, we wanted to have a closer look at other Nordic examples. In 2007, a similar government reform…

The four-year research project started in September 2022 and is funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement No. 101057699. The RadioVal project will develop a comprehensive and standardised methodological framework for multi-faceted radiomics evaluation based on the FUTURE-AI Guidelines. The project consortium is led by Universitat De Barcelona, and the consortium includes universities, as…

The project was conducted together with Estonian Health Insurance Fund and Philips. The goal of the pilot project was to improve patients’ quality of life and streamline the patient pathway by measuring the results and costs of stroke care and comparing them between hospitals. Four out of six Estonian hospitals treating acute stroke care participated…

Expert companies in Finnish hospital design and construction have jointly launched the Integrated Hospital Design Alliance (IHDA) project, which promotes the export of technically and functionally high-quality Finnish hospital design expertise to Europe. Internationally pioneering Finnish hospital design expertise is exported to Europe in an alliance that brings together healthcare experts and service designers, architects…

Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) is growing and extending its international footprint. James Campbell has started as NHG’s CEO to accelerate and lead the next phase of the company as from 8th August 2022. Campbell has extensive international experience in life sciences, pharma, digital health, and social and healthcare consulting. Before joining NHG, he worked as…

Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) acquires small UK-based software company QFI Consulting Ltd. –Their unique approach and software enable healthcare providers to achieve breakthroughs in the access, quality, and affordability of care. With the acquisition, NHG enforces its internationalization strategy and expands its operations and office network to the UK – NHG has further offices in…

The Estonian Health Insurance Fund (EHIF) took a big leap towards value-based healthcare as they started a national stroke patient pathway pilot involving 4 out of 6 hospitals in Estonia providing acute stroke care. In addition to hospitals’ development projects and outcome measuring and benchmarking, as part of the pilot project, a new payment model…

We are pleased to announce that Magnus Gink has been appointed Country CEO for NHG Sweden AB. Welcome to Nordic Healthcare Group’s team Magnus! Magnus Gink, LLM, MBA, is an experienced professional with a versatile background in the life-science sector. Previously, he has been Director, Life Science at PwC Sweden, Executive Director at Ernst &…

Fast-growing company Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) expands its operations by acquiring Finland-based Salivirta & Partners (formally Salivirta Oy), a well-known advisory organisation specialising in digital transformations in the health and social care sector. Salivirta’s solid expertise and experience in health and social care service design, information management, enterprise architecture and digitalisation of health and social…

Two new experienced professionals, Senior Managers Helena Henno and Outi Isomeri joined Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) in August. A warm welcome! Helena Henno holds two Masters degrees: one in health and biotechnology and the other in industrial engineering with focus on strategy and leadership. Previously, she worked at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland as…

  The Estonian Health Insurance Fund (EHIF) took a big leap towards value-based healthcare as they started a national stroke patient pathway pilot involving 4 out of 6 hospitals in Estonia providing acute stroke care. A visual dashboard was built to display results and enable benchmarking between the hospitals. What information does the dashboard display?…

Sustainability is a word that is increasing its visibility in the communication of organizations. Just as occupational safety became a critical theme in the 1970s, sustainability found its way into the corporate agenda in the 2010’s and is now an indistinguishable part of business. This is exemplified by the steady increase in cash flows to…

NHG Finland Oy has been selected as the main partner to help support the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in the preparation of the Finnish health and social services reform and its implementation further on. This nationally substantial reform requires a wide range of know-how and expertise as well as long-term work. NHG supports…

A webinar hosted by NHG brought together healthcare experts around the Nordics to share experiences Benchmarking – improving practices by peer-to-peer development – is currently becoming the hot topic in healthcare internationally which was highlighted also at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement’s ICHOM congress 2020. Benchmarking in healthcare is in Finland already conventional,…

The Estonian Health Insurance Fund (EHIF) took a big leap towards value-based healthcare as they started a national stroke patient pathway pilot involving 4 out of 6 hospitals in Estonia providing acute stroke care. As from 1st July 2020, the hospitals started collecting PROMs from the patients; with a spectacular response rate of 95% at…

HERoS partner Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) has developed an online tool to visualise occupancy rates at intensive care units in different countries and regions of the European Union between February and November 2020. It is based on datasets from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) as well as national health authorities. Availability…

Did you miss the ICHOM conference 2020? Are you interested to hear about a unique national pathway pilot? Better quality of life for stroke patients A unique national stroke patient pathway pilot puts patient at the centre and tries out various incentives to make the pathway better. The Estonian Health Insurance Fund (EHIF) took a…

A unique national stroke patient pathway pilot puts patient at the centre and tries out various incentives to make the pathway better. The Estonian Health Insurance Fund (EHIF) took a big leap towards value-based healthcare as they started a national stroke patient pathway pilot involving 4 out of 6 hospitals in Estonia providing acute stroke…

Philips, Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) and local partner Meditsiinigrupp will support public payer Estonian Health Insurance Fund (EHIF) in a two-year Stroke Patient Pathway Pilot Project by providing IT solutions for measuring the outcomes and costs of ischemic stroke care. This pilot project involves 4 out of 6 hospitals in Estonia providing acute stroke care,…

The need for value-based management in healthcare is well established and few doubt its usefulness. We at NHG have been actively promoting value-based management in healthcare for years, and our key message has been: start measuring outcomes. While the allocation of costs is also important, and by no means a negligible effort, fairly standardized practices for doing it do exist.…

We at NHG have been investing in our operations in the Nordics as part of our growth strategy. Our aim is to offer solid expertise in social- and healthcare and international benchmarking possibilities for our customers. This summer, we have taken two remarkable steps in our internationalization: first, we acquired Denmark-based Health Innovation Institute (H2I)…

Mika Kaartinen, specialised in social and healthcare customer experience and ICT, joined Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) in August as senior partner. Mika has solid experience in the field: the last 15 years he has been solely focusing on solutions for the social and healthcare sector. Before joining NHG, Mika worked at CGI, where he was…

Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) and Lumell Associates AB enter a strategic partnership to establish a Nordic offering of strategic advice specialized in healthcare, pharma and healthcare technology. Together the two companies offer a network of more than 180 experienced professionals with deep local knowledge and sector understanding from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. “We are…

Philips, Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) and local partner Meditsiinigrupp will support public payer Estonian Health Insurance Fund (EHIF) in a two-year Stroke Patient Pathway Pilot Project by providing IT solution for measuring the outcomes and costs of ischemic stroke care.   “The goal of the Stroke Patient Pathway Pilot is to improve patients’ quality of…

Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) continues its growth strategy in the Nordics by acquiring rapidly growing Denmark-based Health Innovation Institute (H2I), a company specialised in healthcare. Both companies share the vision to implement predictive and value-based social and healthcare in the Nordics. By combining their strengths in healthcare data benchmarking and expertise in digital services, an…

Anna Maksimainen joined Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) as senior partner in January. Anna is an experienced professional in health and social care, and, previously, she worked at NHG for eight years. In the last few years, Anna has been in charge of health and social care advisory services at Accenture, where she gained in-depth knowledge…

ICHOM, International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement, has chosen Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) as its first certified implementation partner in Europe The globally appreciated International Consortium for Healthcare Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) has chosen Finland-based health and social care advisory and analytics company Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) as its certified partner to implement standardised sets of…

Appreciated social and health care leadership expert Alex Knight (UK) is coming to Finland. Knight presents his innovative approach, which has helped health and social care organisations around the world to improve the accessibility of services, quality, safety, and productivity, in a short time. Knight’s solution has been implemented with fast results in over 50…

Value-based health care lately has been discussed widely among health and social care decision makers. The time also has come to take steps toward a value-based system. Modern technology finally has enabled continuous measurement of outcomes, and the consumerisation megatrend will increase patient-relevant outcomes’ importance. Our white paper on value-based health care now available: NHG’s…

What is value-based healthcare? Value-based healthcare is one of the hot topics when it comes to how healthcare systems will be managed in the future. In the context of healthcare, “value-based” refers to managing and measuring not only the volume or costs of services provided but measuring actual results of care – and in a…

Pekka Multimäki has joined Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG) as Group CFO in the beginning of May. Previously, Pekka was CFO for Royal Ravintolat (now part of NoHo Partners). Pekka has diverse experience in financial administration and management as well as consulting in a variety of industries and companies, such as Teliasonera and Accenture. Educationally Pekka…

Join us in this event that tackles the challenge of using data to build predictive and personalized cancer care with a holistic approach. You will hear presentations from world class researchers and the digital health company Noona, who is successfully operating in countries such as Finland and the US. Building predictive tools and digital services…

As part of measuring effectiveness of care coronary artery disease patient-reported outcomes are systematically collected and analysed in a pilot project in the Central Finland Health Care District. In a first for Finland, The Central Finland Healthcare District has implemented Philips VitalHealth’s Questlink, a tool specialised in patient self-reporting of their symptoms and ability to…

We are delighted to welcome new colleagues to the Nordic Healthcare Group in March: Rikhard Berg has joined us as Pharma Lead and Milja Saarimaa as Communications and Marketing Manager. Rikhard Berg’s background lies in customer-related sales and educational tasks in social and healthcare service production as well as in the pharmaceutical industry. Previously, Rikhard…

Press release 5.12.2018 Finland first to release application for tracking annual cancer costs and treatment outcomes Finland has today become the first in the world to release an application that tracks annual cancer-related costs on a national scale. Cancer is one of Finland’s most common diseases, and this application provides a basis from which to…

Nordic Healthcare Group is expanding its value-based healthcare advisory and analytics services in the Nordic Countries – Finnish private equity firm Vaaka Partners to accelerate growth Nordic Healthcare Group (NHG), a Finnish healthcare advisory and analytics company, is expanding its value-based services in the Nordic Countries. NHG employs more than 100 professionals that help its…

Finland’s leading company specialized in planning and development of healthcare and social services, takes a big leap to expand in the Nordics. The Nordic Healthcare Group’s (NHG) Finnish offices are located in Helsinki and Turku, and now offices are also established in Stockholm, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark. The focus in Sweden and Denmark will be…