About Project

In this co-creation project, LAB University of Applied Sciences leads the work on a radical augmented intelligence and reality (AIR) research idea to build high-quality international research for solving a significant global health and welfare problem.

The AIR4Safety focuses on moving away from insecure practice: huge number of patients (10 % of hospitalized) are harmed due to adverse patient events. In Finland, adverse events costs are approximately 1 B€ a year. Globally, unsafe care is estimated to result in well over 3 million deaths/per year. Healthcare-associated infections occur in 7% of hospitalised patients. Medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in health care systems – global costs estimated at 42B€ annually.

A co-innovation project proposal will be prepared to commit companies to build a new business ecosystem for a takeover of AIR system architecture in healthcare practice and substantial export growth. The co-innovation will be conducted together with SMEs and large companies and research institutes LUT University and University of Turku.

To tackle the problem, it is important to understand human factors, patient safety, system safety management, and complexity of the healthcare system.Important is that over 50 % are estimated to be preventable with healthcare systems change.