The workshop consisted of two sessions with invited presentations covering needs of the health care system, assessment of health care technology, security and defence, commercialization of sensors and diagnostic equipment, and the technology of the sensors for the health care industry. Group work was performed covering the topics home care, defence, doctor’s office and hospitals.

Presentations

• Background for the foresight FOBIS, Ingrid Svagård, SINTEF
• Introduction and objectives, Lars Lading Sensor Technology Center A/S

• The Hospital Laboratory of the future, Jens F. Rehfeld, Copenhagen University Hospital

• Security and Defence, Åke Sellström, The Swedish Research Defence Agency

• Health technology assessment: an introduction with emphasis on the clinical and economic evaluation of diagnostic tests, Hindrik Vondeling, Centre for Applied Health Services Research and Technology Assessment, University of Southern Denmark

• Marketing Biosensors: Opportunities and Pitfalls based on real world
  experiences, Ulf Jönsson, CEO of Cellectricon and former CEO of Biacore

• Biosensor Technology – an overview. Lars H. Pedersen, Bioneer A/S