THE ESTONIA STORY
Estonia has emerged as a global pioneer in digital health innovation, leveraging its advanced e-governance infrastructure to transform healthcare delivery. From AI-powered diagnostics to digital therapeutics and remote patient monitoring, Estonia is fostering a robust ecosystem that supports personalised, preventive, and home-based care.
The country is renowned for its attractiveness as a destination for foreign investments, has a high-income economy and is a global leader in digital public services. With its thriving ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship, including in the medical and aviation sectors, Estonia offers the perfect test bed for LifeSaver.
Estonia is the first country to work with International SOS and Airbus Helicopters to launch a national innovation programme dedicated to improving EMS through LifeSaver.
The World’s First Digital Society
Estonia, an agile and vibrant country located south of Finland, is renowned for its attractiveness as a destination for foreign investments. Its clean and untouched nature co-exists with the world’s most digitally advanced society.
A National Innovation &
Investment Project
In 2022, the Estonian Innovation Agency, Airbus Helicopters, and International SOS signed a cooperation agreement to develop and implement the LifeSaver Estonia (LSE) programme, to improve EMS and integrate innovative solutions in medical, aviation, and digital domains.
A Driver For Economic Growth
The LSE programme showcases what Estonia can offer in terms of innovative solutions. When advanced technology excels in a mission-critical environment, it reveals further use cases, and increases visibility for local businesses, attracting partners and investments.
“The goal is to identify and create relevant application opportunities for as many countries as possible to maximise the export opportunities of Estonian companies involved in the development of solutions.”
Andres Sutt
Minister of Energy and the Environment of the Republic of Estonia
LIFESAVER ESTONIA (LSE) MULTI-YEAR PROGRAMME
LSE has provided the Estonian government with key recommendations that focus on specific use cases to further advance the emergency medical services ecosystem. Furthermore, the programme has proven the feasibility of the LifeSaver Intelligence Platform’s core functionalities and intends to create impact in a real-world context, generating valuable data and insights to guide future scaling and adaptation. Many countries all over the world face the challenge of improving EMS and will benefit from building on the data and lessons learned from this first application of LifeSaver in Estonia.
Programme Feasibilty
Identify areas of improvement and develop innovative solutions that can address the challenges of Estonia and scale to other countries, such as reducing response times, providing essential medical care to ‘low population density’ areas, or optimising the overall medical logistics network.
LifeSaver Programme Development: included a comprehensive review of Estonia’s EMS system with a team of international experts, supported by sophisticated data analysis with the LifeSaver Intelligence Platform (LSIP). As a result, LifeSaver identified 10 innovative improvement projects, of which the Estonian government selected five for future implementation.
Scaling & Adaptation
Option to support Estonia with the implementation of innovative solutions and help innovative companies integrate into the EMS system. LifeSaver provides extensive aviation and medical expertise to ensure that solutions are effective and can be exported from Estonia to other countries.
Future Vision: could include solutions that address specific needs, such as enhanced EMS system management and strategic planning, and which could showcase the capabilities of Estonian innovation.
“Estonia is a great hub for innovation. The solutions developed and tested here will be later available to the whole world. We are happy to see that Estonia’s excellence in innovation, strong technological and IT competence and agile cooperation with international partners keep bringing new aviation innovators like Airbus to Estonia.”
Joonas Vänto
Director of Invest Estonia
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Benefits to Population
LifeSaver enables Estonia to provide more equitable healthcare access, including in rural areas.
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Advanced Technologies
LifeSaver fosters the growth of emerging technologies, such as AI and drones, boosting regional innovation.
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Export Showcase
LifeSaver helps demonstrate economic activity, attracting new businesses and fostering a network effect.
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Cooperation
LifeSaver showcases Estonia’s start-up environment, facilitates partnerships with the private sector & fosters cross-border innovation.
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Operational Deployment
LifeSaver introduces solutions that improve EMS delivery efficiency, helping to contain rising healthcare costs.
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Worst Day Scenario
LifeSaver readies emergency medical systems to deal with mass casualty events, border conflict, extreme weather & natural hazards.
LIFESAVER’S IMPACT IN OTHER COUNTRIES
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JAPAN
The programme has delivered recommendations on how innovative air solutions can strengthen the resilience of vital medical supply chains in earthquake situations based on advanced simulations.
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CROATIA
Dynamic and intuitive map-based dashboards have provided critical information for long-term strategic decision-making, surpassing the utility of standard statistical reports.
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GERMANY
Mapping system coverage enabled the German authorities to model different scenarios to accommodate staff shortages without affecting service response times.
LEARN ABOUT LIFESAVER
With the combined aviation and public health expertise of Airbus and International SOS, LifeSaver creates adaptive Emergency Medical Systems (EMS) that improve patient outcomes and create business opportunities for healthier and more prosperous regions.
PARTNERS
International SOS and Airbus Helicopters have joined forces to leverage the global potential of both companies to support local healthcare providers and amplify the work of economic development agencies. EMS serves as the springboard for broader healthcare and transport applications.
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