Health informatics – Sabine Koch's group

Our research focuses on clinical informatics in the areas Patient Centred Information Systems, Decision support and Decision making.

HI Conversations - our seminar series
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About us

The research group Health Informatics within the Health Informatics Centre (HIC), performs research in the areas of clinical decision making, integrated patient-centred information systems for collaborative care and patient e-services with special focus on usability.

Within our research group we also have the MINT Team which focuses on research in medical education and in particular pedagogical encounters, simulation, and digital tools to support learning.

Our research

Our aim is to perform needs driven research and to enhance clinical practice through informatics, delivering new evidence-based knowledge into patient care, prevention and self-management.

We systematically use knowledge about care processes, information flows in health and social care, patients’ information and communication needs, usability and health informatics standards to develop new methods and tools. These are evaluated to create new knowledge about how to best design and implement eHealth to create benefits for both patients and healthcare professionals.

We apply a sociotechnical approach, combining technical and methodological research with research on how implementation and use of eHealth affects roles, relationships and tasks for patients and healthcare professionals.

Education

The Joint Master's Programme in Health Informatics is lead by Programme director Nadia Davoody.

Publications

All publications from group members

Staff and contact

Group leader

All members of the group

Health Data Sweden

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HDS helps SME´s and the public sector to digitalize in health data.

Within the framework of the EU project Health Data Sweden (HDS) we organize our seminar series Health Informatic Conversation. In the project, we support small and medium-sized enterprises (SME's) by offering various services, like seminars and hackatons.

"Health Data Sweden (HDS) is a one-stop shop for increasing digital transformation in health data for SMEs and the public sector, using key technologies".

All events within HDS (link to calendar)

Contact persons at HIC: Sabine Koch, Nadja Davoody, Stefano Bonacina, Marie Lind

FORTIFY

− a project to strengthen innovation protection in Europe’s health data space

Karolinska Institutet is the coordinator for a new IHI-funded project aims to unlock health data for research while safeguarding intellectual property and trade secrets.

The FORTIFY project (Framework for Optimized Regulation, Trade Secrets, and Intellectual Property in a Federated European Health Data Space) has officially launched to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in health innovation today: how to enable broad, trusted secondary use of health data for research purposes without putting intellectual property, trade secrets, and commercially sensitive information at risk. 

Brings together 34 public and private parties

Funded under the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) and aligned with the implementation of the European Health Data Space (EHDS), FORTIFY brings together 34 public and private partners from academia, industry, healthcare, policy, and patient organisations. Over the next three years, the project will develop, test, and validate legal, governance and technical solutions that allow health data to be reused safely, fairly, and efficiently—without undermining Europe’s capacity for innovation. FORTIFY aims to break this deadlock by proving that data sharing and innovation protection do not have to be a trade-off.

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Pedro Ramos

Scientific coordinator at KI

FORTIFY aims to PROVE that data sharing and innovation protection do not have to be a trade-off.

“Europe’s health data has enormous potential to drive medical breakthroughs, but that potential will only be realised if health data holders trust the system,” said Pedro Ramos, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics at Karolinska Institutet (KI) and FORTIFY scientific coordination. “FORTIFY is about turning trust into practical tools—so data can flow without compromising innovation.”

Project duration

From 1 May 2026 to 30 April 2029.