Creating a Healthcare Transformation Academy

The Healthcare Transformation Academy is being created by European university hospitals with the ambition to empower hospital staff to transform healthcare from within, by sharing best practices and providing training tailored to the leaners’ needs.

The Healthcare Transformation Academy is now being created by Karolinska and other European university hospitals based on the idea that healthcare must be transformed to face the challenges ahead – and that transformation needs to come from within the healthcare sector itself.

The academy will equip healthcare professionals with skills such as innovation management, leadership development, high value care, digital transformation, and personalized medicine – tailored to meet the needs of its learners.

– The courses are developed by and offered to healthcare professionals, and each course is developed by a hospital with relevant and specialized expertise in each field, says Åse Lundh Gravenius, innovation manager at Karolinska University Hospital and part of the team creating the new academy.

Therefore, the academy provides an arena for healthcare professionals to share best practices and expertise to empower each other.

Innovation courses from Karolinska

The first two courses delivered by Karolinska University Hospital are taught by its Center for Innovation: The strategically focused Innovation for Leaders and the more hands-on course Innovation Ambassadors.

At Karolinska University Hospital, the Center for Innovation has built innovation management competence over time, educating employees and managers at the hospital for years now, as well as in the Stockholm Region. With the Healthcare Transformation Academy, the courses will reach an even broader audience.

Karolinska plans to also launch a course in personalized medicine.

The creation of the academy is an initiative within the European University Hospital Alliance, EUHA, and the project is backed by a consortium of university hospitals and partners.

Partners: Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Vall d’Hebron Hospital, King´s Health Partners, Erasmus Medical Center, UZ Leuven, City of Rotterdam, Charité (Universitätsmedizin Berlin), Region Stockholm, Tartu University Hospital, German Trias I Pujol, Institut Català de la Salut, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (EPE), TU Delft, Fundació ICTUS,U niversità Salute-Vita San Raffaele, Fundación de Investigación Biomédica del Hospital 12 de Octubre, Servicio Madrileño de Salud (SERMAS) Medtronic, Philips, TicBioMed and Electronics Nederland BV. Supported financially by EIT Health.