Region Stockholm is responsible for all publicly funded healthcare in the Stockholm region. Its chairman, Irene Svenonius, explains her agenda to transform and modernize the region’s healthcare system to improve its efficiency, enhance patient value and prepare it for the technological revolutions to come. A key part of her plan is to further integrate healthcare and research to implement innovations faster. In this area, increased collaboration between industry, the care sector and academia is needed.
Highly specialized care can be extremely expensive. We simply cannot afford to spread highly specialized care across regions and hospitals
