Carolina Wannheden

Carolina Wannheden

Senior Research Specialist | Docent
Telephone: +46852483934
Visiting address: Widerströmska huset, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17165 Solna
Postal address: C7 Lärande, Informatik, Management och Etik, C7 MMC Öfverström, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • I am a medical informatician with a PhD in Medical Science from Karolinska Institutet. My research interest broadly concerns the opportunities of using medical and health informatics to achieve the Quadruple Aim – improving the individual experience of care, improving the health of populations, reducing the per capita cost of healthcare, and improving the experience of providing care.

Research

  • My current research projects focus on the use of eHealth services for enhancing partnership between persons living with chronic illness, caregivers, and their healthcare teams. I use mainly qualitative and participatory action research methodology to study how new eHealth services are co-designed, used, and experienced in clinical practice and individuals’ daily life.

    Ongoing projects:
    - Patients in the driver’s seat! A multimethod partnership program on patient-driven innovations https://ki.se/en/lime/patients-in-the-drivers-seat-a-multimethod-partnership-program-on-patient-driven-innovations
    - Care when and where it matters - How can eHealth transform patient – professional interaction and collaboration in chronic care management? A distributed cognition approach https://ki.se/en/lime/patients-in-the-centre

    Main funders:
    - Swedish Research Council for Health and Welfare (Forte)
    - Kamprad Family Foundation
    - Region Stockholm (NSV Projektmedel)

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Grants

  • Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare
    1 January 2025 - 31 December 2027
    Research problem and specific questions: The acute staffing crisis in healthcare calls for the need to redesign care delivery models to meet the needs of patients in efficient ways. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has been proposed as a new model of care to achieve this. Yet, RPM often fails to be implemented due to difficulties in integrating new or changed tasks into the daily work of an already strained workforce. Task shifting has been recommended as a strategy to make best use of available resources, but the shifting of tasks from healthcare staff to patients, caregivers, and digital health technologies remains largely unexplored. Our specific research questions are:How do healthcare professionals, patients, and informal caregivers experience their work tasks related to RPM?How can task shifting and sharing be made explicit in the context of RPM?How does the shifting and sharing of tasks in the context of RPM influence patient, caregiver, and staff experiences?How does the shifting and sharing of tasks in the context of RPM influence healthcare costs?Data and method: The study context will involve four hospitals in the Stockholm Region that are developing RPM services for various care processes. We will engage with the hospitals using an action research approach involving three phases. In phase 1, we will explore experiences of work tasks related to RPM
    in phase 2, we will engage relevant actors in co-designing task shifting strategies
    in phase 3, we will evaluate experiences and costs of task shifting. Data will be collected qualitatively (observations, interviews, focus group discussions, co-design workshops, documents) and quantitatively (questionnaires, care utilization, costs).Societal relevance and utilization: This project addresses the societal challenge of ensuring high-quality healthcare in the face of workforce shortages and increasing patient demands. By exploring how task shifting can be supported in the context of RPM, we aim to provide evidence-based solutions that can improve resource utilization in healthcare, and the experiences of healthcare professionals, patients, and informal caregivers.Plan for project realization: Access to the study setting has been established. Data collection and analysis will be carried out longitudinally by experienced researchers with interdisciplinary expertise, as well as co-researchers from the study context. The costs cover mainly personnel, analysis, and dissemination activities.
  • Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare
    1 December 2018 - 30 November 2024

Employments

  • Senior Research Specialist, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2022
  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Learning, informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 2014
  • Master Of Medical Science, Karolinska Institutet, 2009

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