Smart Well-Being

Responds to societal challenges with socially and ethically sustainable solutions in cooperation with our partners.

Smart Well-Being research platform responds in a socially and ethically sustainable way to societal challenges such as the aging of the population by utilising digitisation, financial know-how and service design.

This platform creates and develops

together with our partners, cost-effective, accessible and effective services using service integration.

The activities strenghten

network and service control expertise, promotes patient and customer safety and supports the shift of focus to preventive services and early support.

The practical development work utilises

service design and co-development. The aim is to create smooth service entities and service chains by also utilising customer experiences and possibilities provided by technology.

Themes of development work

Accessibility: Psychosocial, digital and physical

Multifunctionality: Teamwork, multi-functional assessment, service paths and services

Preventive work: Health and social education interface, promotion of health and well-being
Customer and patient security: The special function of the hospital district of Vaasa, ensuring competence

Service control: Different levels: self-help, counseling, intensive service guidance, digital services

Deepening the skills in clinical and customer work: Service innovations, international cooperation – good practices, simulation expertise

Riku Niemistö is known as wide-ranging developer of well-being services

Riku has been involved in the planning of provincial health and social services, for example in the organisation of child and family services.
As a senior lecturer in the social and health field, hehas seen how valuable multidisciplinarity is both from the point of view of professionals and the customer.

”Well-being issues are often complex. A multidisciplinary approach is needed especially for customers who use a lot of services. A common platform makes it easier to face people as a whole and to solve problems in a multidisciplinary way.”

In the welfare services of the future, the prevention of problems and accessibility will be taken into account even more. Digital services can also help with that.