The Well-being and Health Sector’s Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Programme (Hyteairo)

Duration:

23.8.2018 – 31.12.2021

Unit at THL:

Ageing, Disability and Functioning

The Well-being and Health Sector’s Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Programme (Hyteairo): Support for living at home, Conversational AI in Social and Health Care, AI Analytics.

The Programme has ended 2021

The Well-being and Health Sector Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Programme (#hyteairo) supported and speeded up the utilisation of artificial intelligence and robotics. The Well-being and Health Sector AiRo Programme was a joint programme between all parties for communication and development.

The objective of the Well-being and Health Sector AiRo Programme was:

  • To speed up the utilisation of artificial intelligence and robotics in the well-being sector’s services and operating processes.
  • To determine and eliminate obstacles and create the prerequisites for the development and use of artificial intelligence and robotics in the well-being sector.
  • To promote the sector’s AiRo technology business activities in Finland and export of the technology.

The programme’s areas of focus were:

  • Living at home
  • Conversational AI in social and health care
  • AI analytics

Conversational Artificial Intelligence in Social and Health Care

Hyteairo programme helped developers to shift from individual projects towards nationwide development.

Accenture has made an analysis for the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health to map out how conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used in Finnish social and health care services at the moment and to create a vision for future goals.

Person in charge of development:
Katri-Leena Launis
Executive Consultant, Kela
tel. 050 4647013
[email protected]

Link to summary on Conversational Artificial Intelligence (PDF, 296 kB)  

Funding

Ministry of Social Affairs and Health

More Information

Katja Pulli
Senior Planning Officer, Service Designer
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
tel. +358 (0)29 524 7663 
[email protected]