Landlord

50 years in healthcare

After training and work as an oral and maxillofacial surgeon at various hospitals in Stockholm, I moved with the family to Gotland and Visby Lasarett in 1984. As a sole representative of a specialty in Gotland, I realized early the importance of IT support in health care.

IT development and hospital cooperation

I was increasingly involved in central development issues and in 1997 I became responsible for Visby Lasarett's IT development and healthcare collaboration with Huddinge University Hospital.

TMC - Telemedicine Development Center

At the same time, I also became TMC's Director of Telemedicine Development Center, a joint project between Visby and Huddinge Hospital, supported by, among others, KK Foundation and Telia.
The work involved many contacts and cooperation with clinics, healthcare staff both on the mainland and locally on Gotland. It was important to create and convey contacts and collaborations between individuals for the work with common patients.

Collaboration "boundless healthcare" overall perspective on patient benefit

Huddinge and Visby drew up an agreement that resources and skills would be added to care processes based on an overall perspective on patient benefit, resource consumption, competency and overall economics, which means collaboration on both healthcare and healthcare support systems. The agreement was taken over by the new Karolinska University Hospital with a joint journal system for the whole of Karolinska and Gotland in a well-integrated health care organization.

Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, eye care and dental manager

From 1999, in addition to the development manager's job, I also had the responsibility to act as Head of the clinic for Oral and Maxillofacial surgery and for a couple of years, also for the Ophthalmology clinic.In 2002, I was commissioned to organize the then dental healthcare in the municipality of Gotland, Sweden.

Organizes the journal Care Care at Karolinska and others

After my actual retirement, I was recruited to Karolinska University Hospital in 2008 to investigate and develop a new organizational model for administration of the large-scale journal system Take Care, which had now become common to several healthcare providers. My proposal was adopted and I had to agree to implement the new organization. I also became responsible for the work on the adaptation of the journal system to the new patient data act.

Ethiopian Medical Bridge

After retirement, we have my wife Titti and I have increasingly come to work in Ethiopia in a city about 500 kilometers north of Addis Ababa at Bahir Dar University. Titti at the journalist education and I first build a Oral and Maxillofacial surgery clinic. Eventually, I became responsible as a Medical Director for the University Hospital, which was under construction. After several periods of voluntary work, we both were employed at the university. It is not foreign aid projects but is partly based on non-profit work. We still have dedication there, even though we are now stepping down our work.

Hans Forsslund