The Nordic Vision 2030 is ambitious, implying significant developments for hospitals, universities, and other public actors, as well as companies of all sizes in the private sector. It entails development and innovation of products, operations, and legal frameworks alike, in the direction of environmental, social, and financial sustainability.

For Vision 2030 to be realised, several topics for cross-regional collaboration are at play. In particular, the sharing and utilisation of health data across the Nordic region is central to the future of health and care in the region. This requires new ways of sharing data safely and effectively between device innovators, primary care institutions, public authorities, drug developers, etc.

This project outlines a comprehensive use-case for the benefits of shared Nordic data for a range of organisation types. This is achieved by simulating the expected outcomes of realising the Vision 2030 for SMEs and companies of several sizes, as well as public institutions and healthcare actors. Through a combination of deep ideational processes and wide analyses, we outline the potentials for innovation, improved health, increased exports and integrated environmental sustainability, among other parameters. The goal of the project is thus to provide examples of how the realised vision of shared data contributes directly to constituting the ideal future of Nordic healthcare.

This project builds upon previous work on the subject, namely, the comprehensive legal overview and other works on the healthcare of the future. The project leads into a business case for shared data in the Nordics to guide decision making on the subject.

A wide range of methodologies have been applied: More than 200 stakeholders have been engaged in this project, through workshops, expert roundtables, and interviews. Further, the project has produced a dataset of 112.000 entities in Nordic healthcare, mapped and categorised by sector, employment and revenue.Emerging from the data and research are seven key themes that summarise the complex cornerstones of a sustainable development of the Nordic health space. 

The seven themes are:1. Improving Interoperability2. Mental Health and Well-Being3. Personalised Treatments4. Telehealth and Decentralised Monitoring5. Decentralised Clinical Trials6. Sustainability Data Measurement and Transparency7.Transition to Preventive Care

The full range of project activities and analyses additionally serve to further develop the Vision 2030, providing nuance to key goals and the projected pathway there.It is shown that through sharing health data a 2030 scenario can be reached where systems, devices and regions are interoperable and collaboration amongst Nordic countries is easily possible, mental health in the Nordics is largely improved, tailored treatments and medicines are developed, remote care and decentralised monitoring are a widely used standard, treatment development is accelerated through wider access to data, environmental impact data of treatments and products is taken into account and health issues are diagnosed earlier or even prevented.Moving towards the best possible future of healthcare is a complex and very rewarding process, supported by the efforts of this and similar projects.