Metropolia and Siemens Healthineers have signed a letter of intent on health and medical technology. The letter of intent is intended to agree on research, development and innovation co-operation between Metropolia and Siemens Healthineers to promote sustainable well-being. Health Capital Helsinki was pleased to initiate the contact between the two parties.

Siemens Healthineers develops innovative solutions for critical pathways from prevention to diagnosis and patient recovery. In Finland, the health technology supplied by Healthineers is widely used in both public and private sectors.In Metropolia University of Applied Science, the aim of the Customer-oriented Wellbeing and Health Services Innovation Hub is to both strengthen needs-based wellbeing and health technology expertise and to support the RDI-expertise of wellbeing and health technology companies by providing a preclinical research and testing platform (Metropolia Proof Health). Digitalisation related competence will be accelerated in degree programs of health care and social services and in HyMy-Village. HyMy-Village is a people-oriented and ecosystem-based multidisciplinary learning and development platform. Metropolia is also an active member of the Health Capital Helsinki Alliance.

Boosting competence and introduction of innovations

The productivity challenges of healthcare and the ageing of the population are increasing the demand for health technology, digitalisation of healthcare and experts. In the health sector in particular, expertise is needed in digital solutions, virtual reality, robotics and artificial intelligence.”Innovation has been and will always be at the core of our corporate culture so that people can live healthier lives for longer,” says Jarno Eskelinen, CEO of Siemens Healthineers in Finland and Baltic countries.

Together, we want to enable the introduction of innovations and solve healthcare resource challenges with new operating models.

“At the same time, we help our partners increase healthcare productivity. Without experts, this is not possible. That is why we want to support students so that they have a broad capacity to manage innovation technologies and promote digitalisation. Together, we also want to enable the introduction of innovations and solve healthcare resource challenges with new operating models. We also welcome companies to the ecosystem, and together we will increase our capacity to meet the needs of Finnish healthcare,” says Eskelinen.Metropolia Proof Health provides extensive expertise for preclinical testing, validation and verification, and e.g. an internationally unique, fully equipped and standards-compliant simulation hospital.“Metropolia’s strategy focuses on continuous learning, digitalisation and sustainable growth and development,” says Metropolia’s President, CEO Riitta Konkola.”As a higher education institution, we want to be the reinforcers of future expertise and regional business. Uusimaa region has excellent opportunities to strengthen the emergence of innovations in the fields of wellbeing and health technologies, as long as we boldly build cross-sectoral ecosystems in cooperation. The goal of Metropolia and Siemens Healthineers is to build a creative and innovative cooperation platform,” continues Konkola.Co-operation with Siemens Healthineers ensures a good career path for Metropolia students in health and medical technology. Collaboration increases students’ ability to take on demanding challenges across disciplines. University co-operation and research partnerships enable the introduction and utilisation of new technologies and innovations, the transformation of care pathways and the digitalisation of healthcare in Finland.

Health Capital Helsinki connecting right partners

Health Capital Helsinki is very pleased to see Siemens Healthineers – one of the major global health technology corporations – entering into collaboration with Metropolia University of Applied Sciences and their state-of-the-art simulation hospital.”One of the key roles of Health Capital Helsinki is to connect large international health corporations with the best expertise and know-how in the Helsinki Metropolitan health ecosystem. In this case, we were able to do just that by connecting Siemens Healthineers with Metropolia. We wish great success for the collaboration and we are excited about the new opportunities it will bring,” says Juha Paakkola, Director of Health Capital Helsinki.Photos: Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
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