Our work
The MSF Sweden Innovation Unit sources, supports and drives innovations across the organization to improve access to quality healthcare for people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. To do this, we focus on three, often inter-related, topics: digital health, process innovation and planetary health.
Digital Health
Under its umbrella, digital health includes an ecosystem of digital tools, health information technologies, and patient support apps. Digital health technologies can provide promising solutions to healthcare needs and challenges in diverse contexts. These technologies should never be the end goal or replace existing healthcare systems, but they can act as a complement and help enhance healthcare services. Our work in this domain focuses primarily on the piloting of a patient support application for people living with diabetes in Lebanon.
Inclusive Innovation
Innovations come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes, the most efficient solution to an issue is not a tangible tool, but new ways of working and creating an environment where different individuals' unique perspectives, experiences, and needs are at the centre of innovation. In MSF Sweden Innovation Unit, we work closely with colleagues across MSF, patients and local communities to identify issues in existing services and together design, test and implement efficient and contextually appropriate solutions.