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    Congratulations to everyone who has been nominated in 2021

    The DigitalWell Award highlights people and initiatives that contribute to the health innovations of the future. 

    Christian Persman 
    Arvika municipality

    Christian is passionate about improving the students' environment by gathering all possible forces to make this happen.

    Marcus Eng 
    Anatomy Tech

    Marcus Eng is an enterprising and committed entrepreneur who wants to make a difference in the health and welfare services of the future in his profession as a physiotherapist with his innovation.

    Micaela Fristedt 
    Asylum and refugee health, 
    Region Värmland

    As a project manager, Micaela Fristedt has worked cross-border with her feet in the mix by working actively with suppliers and clinics, creating new collaborations and functional boundaries. .

    Fredrik Östlin 
    Karlstad University

    He has contributed in an invaluable way to the building of Digital Well Innovation Support, by seeing the synergies in methods with the University, which has contributed to the Innovation Support gaining national attention.

    Marie Niljung  
    Livskämpar AB

    I motivate Marie based on her commitment and effort in Livskämpar AB to digitize and spread knowledge about suicide prevention through their app Lumeno, Marie fights hard to realize her ideas and she does it with amazing drive.

    Mari Bank 
    Region Värmland

    With great commitment and enormous energy, Mari creates opportunities for entrepreneurs, start-ups, researchers and individuals within an organization that is often perceived as difficult to meet.

    Mostafa Ismail 
    Zimify

    I nominate Mostafa Ismail for this award due to his out of the box thinking and innovative characteristics, as well as his contributions to Zimify in the work of making the lives of students better.

    Thomas Wernerheim 
    Karlstad municipality

    Through his work, mainly within Innovationssupporten and Projekt Test, he has put questions about innovation and data management on the agenda in the entire municipal group.

    David Holm, Xplorico / DigitalWell Ventures

    For his work with DigitalWell Ventures' mentoring program, where he coordinates expertise from universities, business and the public sector and makes it available to the companies within DigitalWell Ventures. .

    Tobias Norén  
    Bacill Sweden AB

    A great collaboration between the agency and the physiotherapy to enable training and rehabilitation at home. The digital rehabilitation support is not just a digital product but is developed as a service where value is created in the collaboration between the patient and the physiotherapy.

    Stefan Alfredsson 
    Karlstad University

    Stefan has deep expertise in data, data security and mobile networks, both existing and future 5G networks. With his expert knowledge, he has given great support to both the project and entrepreneurs in the development of digital services in health and welfare.

    Gunilla Öberg 
    Karlstad municipality

    With her leadership and visionary perspective, Gunilla has strongly contributed to Karlstad municipality now being a model municipality and also part of the DigitalWell Arena. Innovative investments and an approach where innovative companies are an important part of creating the digital health services of the future have made the municipality of Karlstad a leading municipality in Sweden when it comes to taking advantage of the possibilities of digitization for our residents.

    Inger Eng
    The eye clinic 
    Region Värmland

    Inger Eng is a courageous and trusting manager who sees the individual and the team in eye care. Inger gave the innovator and ophthalmologist Jon Isacsson the opportunity to set up tests in a real environment at the eye clinic to test a digital vision board in five reception rooms for six months.

    Felicia Provender 
    HealthGoing AB

    Felicia and the team are passionate about securing the digital health market. With support from actors in Värmland, Karlstad University and close collaboration with dietitians and personal trainers, HealthGoing has been developed to create safer conditions for health searches as well as giving and receiving health advice online.

    Jakob Bäckström Värmland traffic

    Through an innovation process, together with Värmlandstrafik, students, parents and bus drivers, the solution and the social platform Bussklubben were developed. A mobile app that constitutes a virtual meeting place that creates a sense of belonging for travelers, provides increased understanding and data to Värmlandstrafik and greater perceived security for parents whose children ride the school bus.

    Sara Finnstam & Sofi Lindahl Ineq Solutions

    On the one hand, they have developed and launched a service that creates better conditions for school counselors to support students who are at risk of being excluded, but through their work they have also contributed back to DigitalWell Arena, and how the initiative can develop its support for entrepreneurs.

    Jeanette Koster 
    Preactly

    A new innovative company with an equally new and innovative service. Preactly will be an important part in creating sustainable employees and sustainable workplaces.

    Katarina Nordin Kajblad Region Dalarna

    Katarina is an enthusiastic and driving force within Region Dalarna. Through her work at DigitalWell, she has become involved through, among other things, innovation cases, she has led the innovation work within the region and holds training courses in service design for Region Dalarna.

    Martin Högenberg, CGI

    Martin has supported the case work with the public sector within DigitalWell, mainly through the NEXT tool that we used there. In addition to this, DigitalWell Arena is often welcomed to engage in new projects and opportunities that he drives in innovation. Martin genuinely wants others to succeed in their innovation work.

    Maria Undén Morein Momentus

    I nominate Maria Undén Morein, who is a doctor and CEO of the company Bestla Health, which develops an app (momentus) that gives new mothers all the knowledge they need about their own body and health after childbirth. The team consists of doctors, engineers and mothers of young children who are tired of women feeling lost after giving birth.

    Jon Isaacson 
    Eye care Värmland

    I would like to nominate the project "Digital vision board" in Värmland eye care for the DigitalWell Award. A project that aims to simplify and facilitate the eye examination for the patient and the employee. The work with the innovation has largely been made possible thanks to collaboration with other parties such as DigitalWell Arena and the innovation gateway Vivan

    Mary Johansson
    Karlstad municipality

    Together with the entire administration of Care and Care, Marie challenges traditional approaches with the aim of strengthening the individual's self-efficacy and independence with the help of digital technology.

    Lena Gjevert 
    Region Värmland

    As the new head of health and medical care, she inspires innovation together with other actors. Lena has opened up an investment in health arenas within healthcare and actively contributes to the steering group for DigitalWell Arena.

    Per Hjalmarsson 
    Friskvåden in Värmland

    Friskvården in Värmland has an incredibly driven operation where employees around the county are actively and concretely involved in the development work. The business is open to digital aids to further include and strengthen its offer for individuals in Värmland

    Ingela Agnarsson
    Region Värmland

    Ingela has contributed with great enthusiasm to Filipstad now being a Health Arena within the DigitalWell Arena. She has openly welcomed collaboration with other actors and sees health as an important part of developing a society. Without Ingela's involvement, the start of innovation in collaboration would have been much more difficult.

    Torkel Bengtsson 
    Nordic Medtest

    In an increasingly digitized health society, the demands on patient safety are also increasing. Torkel has an impressive competence in the development and testing of digital services with a focus on security regarding patient privacy. Through testing, development and good collaboration skills, Torkel contributes to a functioning digital infrastructure within welfare.

    Erik Wästlund 
    Karlstad University

    Erik is the researcher who sees the possibilities of collaboration and has, in recent years, both coordinated the collaboration between DigitalWell Research's various research areas and strengthened the joint research through e.g. increased interdisciplinary dialogue.

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    EUROPEAN UNION – EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND

    The regional project DigitalWell is financed by the European Union - European Regional Development Fund. The purpose of DigitalWell is that we will together develop digital solutions for needs in welfare with the user's own abilities in focus.