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Kronoberg Region Reality Lab (Healthcare) *

Enablers

1.1 - Skills

Does the local authority have internally any position such as service designers OR user researchers OR user experience experts?
Evidence: 2 service designers employed at Verklighetslabbet, at least one UX designer at IT-dep.
Yes
Has the local authority provided training on service design or user research to its employees in the last three years?
Evidence: Verklighetslabbet hast trained approximately 150 people in service design and another approx 10 has been trained externally.
Yes
Has the local authority provided training on ICT to its employees in the last three years?
NA
Has the local authority provided training on ICT to citizens in the last three years?
No

1.2 - Strategies

Does the local authority have a digital strategy less than three years old?
Evidence: Read more at: https://www.regionkronoberg.se/vardgivare/arbetsomraden-processer/planen-for-digifysisk-vard/ Translation possible on website.
Yes
Does the local authority have a position of Chief Digital Officer or equivalent?
Evidence: Both CDO and Chief Medical Digital Officer.
Yes
Does the local authority have formal service standard (like for instance the UK Government Digital Service standards)?
No
Does the local authority have design guidelines valid across departments, including for instance standards or protocols for simple language?
Evidence: Design guidelines given by Communications department and all part of organization required to follow.
Yes
Does the local authority have in place formal methods to monitor and enforce such service standards and design guidelines?
NA
Are service design or user experience mentioned in digital strategy or some other strategy level document?
No

1.3 - Ecosystem

Does the local authority provide APIs to other administrations and to private companies?
Evidence: .
NA
Does the local authority use standardised services modules, provided at national or European level (e.g. CEF building blocks, national payment service or eID)?
Evidence: eID used.
Yes
Has the local authority carried out within the last two years innovative forms of procurement, such as pre-commercial procurement, hackathons, other forms of collaboration with SMEs and startups?
No

User-Centricity Performance

2.1 - Co-creation

Does the local authority habitually (as standard practice on every new digital service) use service co-design / user research sessions in developing its services before their launch?
No
Does the local authority habitually carry out users' research sessions on a regular basis (at least once a year) AFTER the launch of a service?
No
Does the local authority habitually use specific service co-design / user research sessions with disadvantaged communities (e.g. minorities, elderly, disabled people, etc.)?
No
Does the local authority habitually use web analytics and other service data to improve digital services (e.g. completion rates and most frequent errors)?
NA
Does the local authority habitually plan for releasing regular (at least once a year) new releases for existing digital services (not including technical updates automatically provided by software provider)?
NA

2.2 - Supply of online services

Does the local authority provide the majority of services fully online (out of total services provided that could potentially be digitalised)?
Evidence: .
NA
Does the local authority have a dedicated app that is downloaded by more than 20% of the population?
Evidence: Min vård Kronoberg, https://apps.apple.com/se/app/min-v%C3%A5rd-kronoberg/id1533934360
Yes
Does the local authority offer at least one proactive service, where users are automatically signed up for a service based on the government-held data?
No
Has the local authority already fulfilled the requirements of the Single Digital Gateway (deadline end of 2022)?
NA
Does the local authority provide habitually to citizens the possibility to check online the progress status of the services they request?
No

2.3 - Useability

Does the local authority habitually carry out useability assessment of its online services, using standard tools such as System Useability Scale (SUS)?
No
Do all the websites or websites sections of the local authority have consistent design and look&feel?
Evidence: The Communications handbook guides how everything should be designed and is monitored by Communications department.
Yes
Does the local authority provide the possibility to citizens to have live audio/video interaction (such as videoconference or single telephone number)?
Evidence: Care conference calls primarily.
Yes
Are the local authority web services in line with accessibility guidelines (WCAG)?
NA

2.4 - Security and privacy

Are the users able to use national eID, as a means of authentication for online services requiring authentication?
Yes
Has the local authority put in place measures to ensure citizens' control over the data held about them (such as seeing who has access to the data and for what reason, correcting data, etc.)?
NA
Has the local authority in place documents on measures, practices or procedures on ICT security?
Evidence: Confidential.
Yes

2.5 - Citizens redress and feedback mechanisms

Does the local authority provide online mechanisms for both citizens and businesses to complain and seek change to a decision?
No
Has the local authority put in place structured means for users to provide feedback?
Evidence: https://www.1177.se/kronoberg/sa-fungerar-varden/om-du-inte-ar-nojd/om-du-inte-ar-nojd-med-varden/
Yes

2.6 - Interoperability

Does the local authority apply the once-only principle in its services, so that citizens are not required to submit documents already held by the administration?
NA
Does the local authority encourage the use of standards in IT development and procurement?
NA
Has the local authority policies in place to encourage the use of open source solutions?
NA

Outcome

3.1 - Adoption

Considering only services that are available online, are the majority of transactions carried out online?
NA
Does the local authority publish data on usage of online services (such as a dashboard with metrics on transactions) on a regular basis?
No

3.2 - Reduction of burden

Does the authority measure the average time saved by citizens when using an online service compared to the offline one?
No
Does the authority measure the amount of annual financial savings for the public administration?
NA

3.3 - Satisfaction

Does the local authority measure the citizens’ level of satisfaction with regards to the services’ provision?
Evidence: National patient survey: https://patientenkat.se/
Yes
Is the share of satisfied users above 80%?
Evidence: 82% is satisfied with primary care.
Yes

Background Information

203000
Total population
5900
Total number of employees in the city/region administration
7 billion SEK
Total annual budget (last year or average of the last three years)
110
Number of ICT specialists employed directly (full-time equivalent)
2
Number of ICT specialists employed indirectly (subcontracting/outsourcing)