Collaborative innovation

Our collaboration with Basel University Hospital shows how ideas turn into real impact. What started as a shared exploration has evolved into a tangible solution and a continued commitment to driving innovation together.

When collaboration becomes a method

At the core of our approach to healthcare innovation is a simple principle: Meaningful solutions are built together. Our collaboration with Basel University Hospital demonstrates how working side-by-side with clinicians and healthcare organizations leads to outcomes that are both practical and impactful.

For us, innovation is not about technology alone, it’s about co-creation. Collaborating directly with vendors like Tieto allows us to move faster, validate earlier, and ultimately build solutions for our end users that truly make a difference.

Bram Stieltjes, Head of Personalized Health at Basel University Hospital

Rather than treating collaboration as a one-off activity, we see it as a continuous process that spans ideation, validation, development, and deployment. By involving clinical experts throughout the journey, we ensure that what we build aligns with real-world needs and integrates seamlessly into daily workflows.

Innovation Challenge: From insight to implementation

Our journey began at last year’s Basel Innovation Challenge - a three-month innovation challenge to explore scalable, openEHR-compliant solutions that would enhance the hospital’s clinical workflows and maximize the potential of their new openEHR platform (Tietoevry Care selected to participate in the Digital Health Nation Open Innovation Challenge). In the challenge, multidisciplinary teams from different healthcare IT- companies and hospital clinics came together to explore new ideas and address real clinical needs.

The challenge provided a structured environment to test concepts rapidly, validate assumptions with clinicians, and identify opportunities with real potential. What emerged was more than just ideas, it was a foundation for further development.

Following the challenge, we continued refining and iterating the concepts we identified, incorporating feedback not only from Basel University Hospital but also from a broader network of customers. This iterative process transformed early insights into a concrete, production-ready clinical application.

Adapting the “Fever Curve” for new markets

One of the most tangible outcomes of this collaboration is the “Fever Curve”, an application that provides a consolidated view of the patient’s clinical data by combining measurement trends, medications, care actions, and relevant observations into a single timeline-based view. This "one-sheet" summary is especially designed for inpatient care. It allows healthcare professionals to quickly assess the patient's overall condition and treatment progress, including temperature trends, vital signs, and the impact of interventions such as medication or care actions. The need for this combined functionality was discovered and realized through close collaboration with clinicians from Basel University hospital.

The challenge provided an opportunity to demonstrate how efficiently existing solutions can be adapted to meet the needs of a new market. In close collaboration with Basel University Hospital, the “Fever Curve” was refined to align with Swiss clinical practices and requirements, highlighting the flexibility of our approach and technology.

As part of our Lifecare Clinical Suite, the “Fever Curve” brings clinical information together in a single, intuitive visualization. It is openEHR-native and designed with integration capabilities to connect with medication systems, supporting seamless interoperability within existing clinical environments.

This journey illustrates how co-creation can accelerate not only innovation, but also the successful adaptation of proven solutions to new healthcare contexts.

The Fever Curve demonstrates how co-creation with clinicians can shape solutions that are both intuitive and relevant. By bringing key patient information into one view, it has the potential to support more efficient clinical workflows.

Tilo Schubert,  Product owner at Basel University Hospital

Closing the loop: From participant to sponsor

Our journey with Basel University Hospital has now come full circle. After participating in the Innovation Challenge as contributors, we are proud to return as sponsors. In this role, we support the challenge by contributing with our long experience on building scalable openEHR native clinical solutions and Lifecare clinical workspace, to create the conditions for ecosystems to work seamlessly for clinicians.

What began as participation has evolved into contribution, and now into enablement.

Looking ahead

We believe that the future of healthcare innovation lies in strong partnerships and shared learning. Our collaboration with Basel University Hospital is just one example of how co-creation can accelerate meaningful change.

If you want to experience the “Fever Curve” firsthand, join us at DMEA, where it will be showcased as part of our Lifecare Clinical Suite. Our experts will be there to demonstrate how we support clinicians and hospitals in their daily work—and to explore new opportunities for collaboration.