Operators

CWC

The Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) was established in 1995 as a research programme connected to the Telecommunication Laboratory of the University of Oulu. CWC is the leading academic wireless communications research center in Finland and is well known in the worldwide research community.

The CWC aims at being one of the leading institutes in wireless communication systems research in the world. The mission of CWC is to carry out research in an academic environment with the objective of supporting users and developers of wireless communication systems in the surrounding society in their research, development and application projects.

CWC's research is organised in projects receiving external funding from competitive sources outside the university. CWC's annual budget of approximately 5 Meur is composed of the funding received from its research partners including, Finnish and international industry, Tekes, Academy of Finland, Finnish Defence Forces and the European Commission.

CWC's research has two dimensions − fundamental long-term research and applied research that supports customers' needs and allows more robust theory to be tested in the real world. Significant competencies have been built in Broadband Wireless Access (BWA), Short Range Communications (SRC) and Security & Defence (S&D) applications in several research projects.

ODL

ODL Health Ltd opened in early 2005 to continue the diverse health care service activity of Oulu Deaconess Institute, which was started in 1896. Its activity is divided into three business units: ODL Lääkärikeskus, ODL Sairaala and ODL Kuntoutus.

ODL Health Ltd employs 320 health care professionals and furthermore provides a framework for 170 practitioners. ODL Health Ltd is part of the Oulun Diakonissalaitoksen Säätiö group, which is one of largest single providers of health care services in Finland.

See the ODL Health Ltd web site at www.odl.fi for more information.

OUH

Charged with organizing specialized medical services in its area of operation, the Northern Ostrobothnia Hospital District (NOHD; in Finnish PPSHP) is the northernmost of the five university hospital districts in Finland. Within this vast geographical area, covering almost half of Finland, advanced specialized medical treatment is provided by the Oulu University Hospital.

More than 375,000 inhabitants live within the NOHD and 722,000 within the special health care region. There are three hospitals in the joint municipality hospital district: Oulu University Hospital, Oulaskangas Hospital and Visala Hospital. Comprising an administration centre and 13 accountable units, the district organises a number of services for the hospitals, including accounting, personnel, data processing, maintenance and technical services.

WHealth Oy

WHealth Oy is an interdisciplinary company established in the Oulu region in late 2003. WHealth is a spin-off of Innokas Medical Oy, which is a health care technology company that employs more than 60 people. The concept and know-how of a wireless hospital were transferred from Innokas to WHealth in connection with the establishment of the company.

WHealth specializes in the design and implementation of the internal wireless data networks of hospitals and the development and implementation of the related wireless solutions, applying its know-how in MDD (Medical Devices Directive).

See the WHealth Oy web site at www.whealth.fi for more information.