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Reliable information and trust
in the digitalised world

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Our vision

It’s time to do something about the lack of trust and the lack of reliable information and communication in today’s digitalised world. Our initiative involves the development of a protocol and a network solution providing an additional infrastructure layer on today's Internet, allowing for multilingual sharing of digitalised knowledge and data, and sustainable system development based on these data. The end result of our endeavour will be a societal common good – on a global scale. Several of today's complex issues will be resolved, in a completely new paradigm based on interconnected digital services. This will provide for rapid dissemination and adoption.

With the new infrastructure, the digital services of the future can emerge and gradually replace today’s islands of isolated systems. In the long run, all data from all services can be used for new services, securely and with preserved privacy. Fully implemented in society, new services can be created in hours instead of years.

It may sound radical, but after over 30 years of publicly available and connected computers, we are now seeing a digital deterioration. More and more services are performed by expensive systems that cannot be used together in a sustainable way.

What we do cannot be done with AI. It is rather a prerequisite for better AI in the future.

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The solution

The Origo infrastructure will be a publicly available protocol and a global node-based network solution for data, knowledge and services. With that in place, global management of digital identities (of individuals, legal persons, and even things), role based access rights, and individual ownership of data will be handled by common functions, easily and identically everywhere. Overall data security and individual integrity will be at the very core of the infrastructure. All what’s done will need to be done only once. Workload and requirements on bandwidth and data storage will then be a fraction of today.

What we do cannot be done with AI. It is rather a prerequisite for better AI in the future.

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Impact

We foresee impact in all domains of society. Examples include:

  • Coherent individual data ownership and data agency with no impairment of data usability.
  • Secure access of patients’ full health data across all caregivers, globally, multi-lingually.
  • All digital services working both online and offline, providing increased resilience and a robust backbone for services like digital cash and electronic drug prescriptions.
  • Complex sharing of data, e.g. data from connected vehicles, handled with full respect of individuals, companies and societies requirements.
  • Traceability of source in any digital information and communication.
  • Reduced work in service development and administration by a global once only principle.
  • Full data life cycle management from the moment of data creation, enabling e.g. environmental surveillance and reporting in the entire delivery chain (CSRD etc).
  • Providing AI with high quality data and delivering the symbolic part of neuro-symbolic AI integration, including semantics.
  • FAIR data by design for both research and operational data.

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Society

The Origo infrastructure will dramatically reduce the complexity currently experienced in the handling of knowledge and data throughout society. IT development will be much easier – in very large projects as well as in the design of small local solutions and personal applications. For the first time, it will be possible to use the vast amounts of information recorded everywhere in society to support us in our professional and private lives and in the creation of new knowledge. The power of artificial intelligence (AI) will increase when it runs on an infrastructure in which data from all domains of knowledge are uniformly structured.

All information and all actions performed in the Origo infrastructure will always be traceable to their origin. This very important feature will provide tools for better protection against misinformation and “alternative facts”.

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Healthcare

Every piece of data collected – patient files, lab results, x-rays etc – will be handled per individual patient, irrespective of the service used to record or display the information. The process of replacing an IT solution or creating a new one tailored to local needs will be much simplified because there will be no need for the migration of data between systems. Standardisation and uniform use of terminology and concepts will be possible without hampering local needs or restraining research and development.

Patients will be able to easily set and update their own preferences, within legal boundaries, to determine who has the right to access what information and for what purpose. In tailored applications and portals, patients will be able to cooperate and participate in their treatment in completely new ways, providing their own data from personal devices and apps. When authorised, both researchers and healthcare workers will have access to all information needed, without the barriers often imposed by healthcare providers and the judiciary.

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The Origo Programme

We are a group of individuals and a development company working to realise the above. We have a collaboration with KTH, Royal Institute of Technology. After more than 15 years of theoretical considerations and iterative development, we are now ready to launch a R&D project to develop a first version of the infrastructure. For this, we seek financial support.

If you find this interesting, please get back to us using the contact form below, to arrange a meeting.

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Founders

Allan Gustafsson

Mapsec KB

Allan holds a PhD from Stanford University. Among other things he has been the team leader for a major development project based in the Swedish Ministry of Finance as well as for preparing a long-term strategy for healthcare in the Stockholm County Council. He is the CEO of Mapsec, focusing on the public sector and consulting for the World Bank.

Anette Wagler

Heroes of Brand and Business Innovation AB

Anette is a co-founder of the brand and innovation bureau Heroes and works as a senior change strategist. Heroes supports businesses and organisations to effectively make use of the possibilities of digitalisation, to synchronise brand and customer experience and business models, always taking as a starting point the digital context in which every business operates today.

Fredrik Öberg

Karolinska universitetssjukhuset Solna

Fredrik is Consultant Anaesthetist at the Karolinska Hospital. He started out as a mathematician and has also studied and taught both Formal Logic and Physics at the Universities of Stockholm and Linköping, before starting his medical studies. At Karolinska, he has been head of the pre-op assessment clinic and of the department of postoperative pain, as well as team leader of several studies and projects with a focus on IT or informatics. He is a national expert and co-author of some Swedish national guidelines in the field of anaesthesia and intensive care.

Gösta Enberg

Headlong Development AB

Gösta has worked as a researcher, practicing physician and head of IT in the health care sector since 1970. He did his PhD at the Karolinska Institute in the field of endocrinology in 1986. He initiated and participated in a number of informatics projects including Samba and Julius. In 2007 he joined Headlong Development AB as a consultant for the development of a novel approach to information management.

Jens Eliasson

Headlong Development AB

Jens studied economics at Uppsala University. From 1991 he worked as a consultant in the development of software for the publishing industry, mostly for Swedish newspapers and news agencies. Jens is one of the founders and the head of development of Headlong Development AB. Since 2006 his work has mostly consisted of design and system development in the area of health care. He is the head architect in the development of the Origo platform.

Robin Jeffner

Headlong Development AB

Robin started his career as a statistical analyst at Riksbanken, the central bank of Sweden. He has since been the driving force in several smaller consulting and systems development firms. Robin is the other architect behind the Origo platform.

Dan Brändström

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Dan is a senior political scientist, investigator and CEO. In 2001 he received the rank of Honorary Professor. He has held several leading positions in Swedish academic and societal institutions, e.g. CEO (1993 – 2006) of The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, chairman of the board of the Folkuniversitetet and chairman of the board of the Linné university. Since 1996 he has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and since 1999 a member of the Royal Swedish academy of sciences.

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More Info

If you have questions, or if you want to book an appointment, please do not hesitate to use the contact form below.

Video (Swedish)

Origo at Vitalis 2021

A presentation from e-health event Vitalis, where Fredrik Oberg lists some examples of structural problems in healthcare data and their solution with Origo. He also gives a brief introduction to Centre for Data Driven Health, a multidisciplinary research centre we’re currently setting up together with Stockholm Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).

Video (English)

Introduction to the Origo platform (2020)

In this 20 minutes video presentation, originally held at the Vitalis conference 2020, Fredrik Oberg gives a brief introduction to the basic properties of the Origo platform.

Report (Swedish w English summary)

Data i egna händer – en ESO-rapport om personliga hälsokonton (2018)

In this report from ESO (Expert Group on Public Economics, under the Swedish Ministry of Finance), the legal implications of the Origo platform are analysed in the context of EUs General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The report also proposes a framework for complementary legislation to regulate the rights and obligations in relation to information stored in personal accounts. The author is Allan Gustafsson, one of the founders of the Origo programme.

Interview (Swedish)

Intervju med Fredrik Öberg i Läkarförbundets Tryggvård (2018)

An interview focusing on information management in healthcare from the perspective of the patient.

Report (English)

Knowledge Agency: Report on the Headroom solution (2018)

The first of two parallel reports on the Origo platform. In this paper, the Origo platform (mentioned as the Headroom platform in the text) is analysed from an architectural perspective by an independent consulting agency. After publishing the report, the authors have chosen to join the programme.

”Headroom is a solution to describe, store and securely share knowledge in a digital format using a commonly understandable semantic data structure. This data structure allows both humans and computers to interpret it and absorb the knowledge it represents, irrespective of the languages they understand.”

Report (Swedish)

Framtidens Fass & läkemedelslista (2018)

The second of two parallel reports on the Origo platform demonstrating how it can be used for managing data in the healthcare sector. The report focuses on how the Origo concept can be applied to the very complex handling of drug-related information including e-prescriptions, with a patient-focused use case and a fairly detailed account of the semantics. In an appendix, we give a brief account of the 12-year process behind the development of the Origo platform.

Report (Swedish)

Ett nationellt digitalt ekosystem för hälsa, vård och omsorg (2016)

In this paper Allan Gustafsson outlines the future implications of an information eco-system such as that suggested by the Origo programme. The report was written before Allan joined the programme.

Investigation (Swedish)

Förstudie PLM 3.0 (2014)

Initiated by the Stockholm Diabetes Association, this report describes the possibilities enabled by a person-centred handling of healthcare-related information using an Origo type platform. The report, describing a seamless flow of information between individuals, industry, research and academy with individual patients in full control, was written by some of the founders of the Origo programme.

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