Finland, the European ‘Silicon Valley’ of health

David Alayón
Sep 1, 2018 · 2 min read

This Nordic country has put in place a preventive medicine plan, a ‘Big Brother’ health plan that combines medical records and genetic information, and which has the majority support of the population (Expansion)

Thanks to advances in Artificial Intelligence, we will gradually be able to treat patients with more personalized formulas, in addition to working with preventive medicine. What does it take to achieve this? Data and the more centralized and interlinked the better.

The Government of Finland has set out to make this small country of 5.5 million people an international benchmark for this new medicine. Its ultimate goal is to create a platform called Isaacus that will integrate the medical and genetic information (using FinnGen) of all Finns. This information will be available to hospitals, research centers…

This is a really interesting project, although from some perspectives it may give us a little bit of fear…. To understand the Finnish context, it is a country that believes in the ethics and sense of responsibility of its government. There has never been any scandal around this topic and they have a long experience in data and health (the Finnish health system has been digitised since 2002), which has allowed them to open up the regulation for the reuse of health data for non-profit purposes with the consent of the citizen.

Thinking globally, they will create the international standard protocol for the individual control of personal information. They’re going to call it IHAN and its operation is similar to that of the banking IBAN.

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