After seven years of client services working as Tint I am taking a break. Or more correctly; I am accepting a job! When SOL - Scandinavia Online came to me and wanted me to be their CIO, I just had to say yes. What a cool job!!!

I had to admit when they called that I had not been using their services much lately. Even more exciting it will be to be working for a brand that I remember as one of the biggest in Norway back in the days, and try and help develop new and exciting solutions and services that will bring them back.

So keep an eye out. This is gonna be great!
Wish me luck!

And come visit!

Finally, and it is a bit scary to say - kvalitetsindikatorer.no is live!

A quality indicator is defined as an agreed-upon process or outcome measure that is used to determine the level of quality achieved. Rikshospitalet Radiumhospitalet HF has got quality of their services as a main focus, and this data is meant to be used both by management and by the health professionals to improve their results, in addition to being a tool for the patients in their free choice of hospitals.

The site will contain proper information about the result of this hospitals diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients. In this first launch the focus has been on cancer, but we will go onto covering the rest of the hospital as soon as possible.

We have been working on this project for a looong time now, preparing the organization, making sure the quality registry was in place for the different areas of focus, making the technology able to do what we wanted… Well - it has been a lot of work. But we think it is an important step in giving the patients information to base a real choice of hospital on.

The website I helped Cobra with for Schibsted a while back got a Diploma at this years annual Visuelt competition for interactive screen based design - large corporations. Well, I only did the IA, the designers are the ones getting the real praise - but I am with this attempting a little bit claim to fame… :)

From the award page:

Diplom
Ken Olling og Børge Bjelland
for websider for Schibsted
Firma: Cobra
Oppdragsgiver: Schibsted

Juryens kommentar:
Spennende bruk av bakgrunner og designelementer i rammeverket. Fremmer brukeropplevelsen og merkevarene.

Read more about this and the winners of the category here >>

Doktoronline.no had a complete redesign a little while back. Well, here Tint did not do much more than a little bit of IA and help putting a team together.

I hope Doctor Eirik is happy with his new look. Here we worked together with designer Meld, front end developer Felt and back end developer SparkIT.

Tint would like to say thank you for everything to all our friends and clients. We wish for you all a very merry happy xmas and a wonderful new year.

2006 has been a hard year, an interesting year, and exiting year, a fun year and probably everything in between. (more…)

Eight more leading research groups in Norway have been designated as Centres of Excellence (CoE). The new CoEs will receive NOK 800 million over a ten-year period to conduct research of a high international standard.

Centre for Cancer Biomedicine was one of the selected ones. This is fantastic, because it means serious funding for great researchers and important research!

Tint is very happy to say that they are our client, and it might help in regards to repeat business… :) We can say we might have helped them a little in getting them the around 100 million NOK.

The Research Council of Norway has initiated the Centres of Excellence (CoE) scheme. These centres are devoted to long-term, basic research. At present, there are 13 Norwegian Centres of Excellence. In December 2006, between five and ten new centres are to be selected. Centre for Cancer Biomedicine are applying for one of these positions.

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I am going to speak at the HelsIT 2006 conference in Trondheim on September 27 2006 about the project Quality Indicators.

This is one of the projects I am working on at Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet HF. This project is focusing on trying to define cancer specific quality indicators and use them as a means to improve the hospitals clinical treatment.

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Photocure ASA is a Norwegian pharmaceutical company listed on Oslo Stock Exchange (PHO). The company develops and sells pharmaceuticals and medical devices based on proprietary photodynamic technologies, targeting key dermatology and oncology markets. This project was another one I did with Cobra.

Schematics:


Design:

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One of my clients through Cobra last year was Schibsted. I was really looking forward to it going live, but since it didn’t I thought maybe they changed their mind about getting a new and improved website… But today I saw they were fresh, new and looking good!

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