The 18th Scandinavian Conference on Health Informatics (SHI 2022) was organized in Tromsø, at the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, from August 22nd to 24th 2022. The conference serves, and has served for almost two decades, as a forum for interdisciplinary research and researchers within the field of health informatics and digital health / e-health in the Nordic countries and provides opportunities to share experiences as well as…
Arcada’s Laboratory for Trustworthy AI has had an active spring and summer. At the moment we are engaging both as technical experts in assessments in Netherlands and conducting workshops in Finland. Here are some of the recent highlights in May and June 2022: 16.05.2022 The kick-off of the pilot ‘Assessment for Trustworthy AI’ with the Province of Fryslân, Z-Inspection initiative, and the UBR Rijks ICT Gilde jointly investigating the reliability…
“Your ego is writing checks your body can’t cash!” As consequence of an aging population living at home, increasing social distress and centralization of specialized healthcare in the Western societies, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is reshaping from the age of blue lights and trauma care to professional frontline healthcare service providers. This paradigm shift is seen especially in Western countries with highly educated paramedic professionals, such as Finland, Norway, UK…
A Nordic conference in health behavior change was arranged in collaboration between Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Mälardalen University (MDU) and Folkhälsan in March 2022. The intention was to bring together health care professionals, teachers and researchers from Nordic countries interested in supporting lifestyle changes. The latest research and practical applications of behavior change approach in health care were presented and the importance of healthcare professionals’ competences in lifestyle change…
The International Museum Day of 2022 carries the slogan ”The Power of Museums”. One sub-theme is ”the power of innovating on digitalisation and accessibility”. And it is truly timely to ponder what this power is all about in relation to the digital. The Covid-19 pandemic forced many museums to step up their game in the digital arena. Steep learning curves on all things digital have been witnessed in the race…
Leonardo Espinosa-Leal, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Big Data Analytics. Arcada University of Applied Sciences. leonardo.espinosaleal@arcada.fi Artificial intelligence has become the modern paradigm in almost all areas of knowledge. Significant advances in fields like deep neural networks (Goodfellow, 2016) have created algorithms able to rival humans in areas as never before, including vision (LeCun, 1995), language (Greff, 2016), and many others. Nowadays, machines are capable the defeating the human masters on…
Did you know that Arcada University of Applied Sciences (UAS) is the most international UAS in relation to its size in Finland? In fact, there are more than 60 nationalities represented on our campus in Arabianranta. We checked in with two international Arcada students who shared their experiences from living in Finland and studying at the UAS. They are Do Pham Hoang Oanh from Vietnam, a freshman in the International…
Are the colder months in Helsinki making you feel a bit low? Look no further, here is a list of fun activities to help you keep the morale high! Now that winter has arrived and the hours of daylight are becoming scarcer, it is normal to feel bluer and more dejected than usual. Sadly, this is a very common reality for everyone here in Finland, old and new residents alike….
The happiest country in the world, high-quality education and beautiful nature – what is not to like? Arcada students Hanna and Maksim chose Finland as their study destination and today, on the Finnish Independence Day, they share their thoughts on why they would make the same choice all over again. Hanna Muller, Mechanical and Sustainable Engineering student from Australia: The first reason I chose Finland as my study destination is…
Jonas Tana, PhD., senior lecturer, Department of Healthcare, jonas.tana@arcada.fi ‘Tis the season. This means that Mariah Carey’s ‘All I want for Christmas’ has started its yearly climb in YouTube statistics, Bing Crosby’s ‘White Christmas’ can be heard in almost all department stores, and Whams ‘Last Christmas’ torrents almost all radio stations. This can for many trigger different feelings, from joy and delight to nausea, stress and anxiety, as the Christmas…