Region of Southern Denmark
The Region of Southern Denmark (RSD) has 1,2 million inhabitants and a total area of 12.191 km². In Denmark, the responsibility for running the health service is decentralised and lies mostly within the regional authorities – Denmark has five regions in total. Currently RSD has four hospital units running a total of 18 hospitals.
Increasingly over the last five years, RSD has focused on eHealth and telemedicine – in research projects as well as in implementation. All hospitals in the region have implemented telemedicine services and the level of electronic communication is very high as more than 1 million electronic messages are transmitted every month in the region.
Odense University Hospital (OUH) is the largest of the three university hospitals in Denmark and is one of the leading European facilities for developing and testing innovative technologies and telemedicine solutions.
Mental Health Services in RSD offer assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of citizens with serious mental disorders. In close and binding collaboration with the primary care sector, the municipalities, and the other healthcare services in RSD, the care pathway is planned and carried out as expediently as possible. For the main part, general practitioners and psychiatry specialist doctors attend to the treatment of mild mental disorders.
Mental Health Services in RSD consist of departments and functions across the region with approx. 3,000 employees covering both community psychiatry and hospital psychiatry. Every year, the psychiatry services in RSD have around 9.200 admissions and a total of approx. 21.000 patients visit the psychiatric outpatient services 230.000 times.
MasterMind services
cCBT – NoDep:
For this treatment program any adult suspected to suffer from depression can refer himself or herself to the service, where clinical psychologists will support the patients through a period of 10 weeks.
It is based on CBT for depression, which is delivered through eight online modules. The core components of the treatment are: Psycho-education, cognitive restructuring, behavioural activation, behaviour experiments, rumination coping techniques, restructuring of beliefs, and relapse prevention. All modules are delivered via multimedia elements including video, audio, interactive exercises, calendar, and pdf summaries.
See the general description here, for more information about the cCBT services in MasterMind.
Duration of cCBT treatment
Support from professionals
ccVC – Collavi:
In the Collavi project, video conference (VC) will be used to diagnose, monitor, and treat unipolar depression in older adults (70+ years). VC includes the use of video as a communication tool in an integrated intersectorial collaboration between patients, psychiatrists, and nurses. Video conference will be applied as an active communication tool in the course of treatment. The patients will be included from two different groups, where the first group is patients referred to gerontopsychiatric team by hospital or GP, whereas the second group is patients in conventional treatment wishing to participate in the intervention.
Video conference is applied to the same extent in both groups.
See the general description here, for more information about the ccVC services in MasterMind.
RSD team members:
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Role in project Overall: Project Coordinator and in charge of the Danish MasterMind team. Contact to the PO and EC. Specific role in WPs: Lead of WP2, Overall management |
| Name: Claus Duedal Pedersen Organisation: Odense University Hospital, Region of Southern Denmark Title: Chief Innovation Officer Email: cdp@rsyd.dk |
Expertise relevant to the project Claus is the Chief Innovation Officer in the Centre for Innovative Medical Technology (CIMT) – a joint research centre between OUH and SDU – and is in charge of development, testing, and implementation of telemedicine and innovative technologies as well as overall responsible for international collaboration and projects for the current university hospital OUH, the new OUH (2021), and the region as a whole.Was overall coordinator of the successful EUproject RENEWING HEALTH – the largest pilot project on telemedicine carried out in the EU. |
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Role in project Overall: Project manager and in charge of the Danish MasterMind team. Lead of WP2 Dissemination. Contact to the PO and EC. Specific role in WPs: Lead of WP2, Overall management |
| Name: Mette Atipei Craggs Organisation: Odense University Hospital, Region of Southern Denmark Title: Innovation Consultant Email: mac@rsyd.dk |
Expertise relevant to the project MA in International Business Communication. Experience with management and dissemination of EU projects in eHealth. Educated in project management. |
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Role in project
Overall: Part of the Danish MasterMind team Specific role in WPs: Lead of WP9 |
| Name: Emilie Nielsen
Organisation: Odense University Hospital, Region of Southern Denmark Title: Innovation Consultant Email: Emilie.nielsen@rsyd.dk |
Expertise relevant to project
MA in International Business Communication Experience with other large European projects and liaison activities
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Role in project Overall: Scientific Coordinator, WP7 Specific role in WPs: Supporting WP7 |
| Name: Mette Maria Skjøth Organisation: Odense University Hospital, Region of Southern Denmark Title: Project Manager, PhD Email: mms@rsyd.dk |
Expertise relevant to the project PhD in the area of health science and eHealthGraduated Diploma in Business Administration – Organization (HDO)Registered NurseMette Maria has a long experience in organisational management, project leadership, innovation and research all with the aim of improving quality in health care, patent safety and workflow within the health care sector. Mette Maria has recently defended her PhD Thesis with the title “Informed choice about prenatal screening for Down syndrome – the development and effect of an eHealth tool”. |
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Role in project Overall: Project leader: Video conference Denmark Specific role in WPs: Lead of WP7 for RSD |
| Name: Jens Peter Hansen Organisation: Research unit Esbjerg/ Mental Health Services in the Region of Southern Denmark Title: Postdoc, PhD Email: jens.peter.hansen@rsyd.dk |
Expertise relevant to project Research experience (RCT). Leader of a collaborative care project. Developed a shared care IT-platform. |
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Role in project Overall: Project Leader Internetpsykiatrien.dk Specific role in WPs: Manager of Danish first wave cCBT site in the Region of Southern Denmark (WP5). |
| Name: Kim Mathiasen Organisation: Region of Southern Denmark, Centre for Telepsychiatry Title: Msc. Psychology Email: kim.mathiasen@rsyd.dk |
Expertise relevant to the project Kim has a background as clinical psychologist, and has since 2006 been working with cCBT, when he started developing the first Danish cCBT programmes at www.godstart.nu. He has since managed a project at Aarhus University Hospital with cCBT for anxiety disorders and is currently project leader on a large scale implementation project in the Region of Southern Denmark, which is part of MasterMind. |
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Role in project Overall: Local project manager, videoproject Region of Southern Denmark (ccVC used by older people with depression) Specific role in WPs: Part of WP 7 |
| Name: Lone Fisker Christensen Organisation: Region of Southern Denmark, Centre for Telepsychiatry Title: Ph.D.-student Email: lone.fisker@rsyd.dk |
Expertise relevant to project Research within the field of telemedicine, especially the implementation process by outpatients, political treatment strategy and telemedicine |