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Intermediaries in eHealth Education

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As in other industry-related fields, information technology and business are becoming intertwined in health care. This has changed the field profoundly, including the way people work, communicate and conduct their everyday affairs. This change is ongoing, and the future of health care and technology is unknown. However, one thing is certain: this change calls for new kinds of professionals who are able to work in a field that has become multifaceted and convoluted, and able to meet the changing requirements of the eHealth industry. In the following, the focus is on industry-oriented eHealth education, how it can be enabled in the context of higher education in Finland and what kind of intermediary roles are needed. The results are based on a practically oriented pilot in which new forms of industry-oriented education were examined and put into practice.

This article is further work extending an earlier conference paper: Lahtiranta, J. and Majanoja, A-M. Industry-oriented Education in eHealth. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2018) – Volume 2, pages 411–419.

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The project called “Working Life Oriented Open University Education” (2015–2018) on which the paper bases on was funded by the European Social Fund. The project partners were University of Turku, Diaconia University of Applied Sciences, University of Helsinki, University of Eastern Finland, Karelia University of Applied Sciences, JAMK University of Applied Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Åbo Akademi University, and Yrityssalo Ltd.

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    Janne Lahtiranta

  2. Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Anne-Maarit Majanoja

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Lahtiranta, J., Majanoja, AM. (2019). Intermediaries in eHealth Education. In: McLaren, B., Reilly, R., Zvacek, S., Uhomoibhi, J. (eds) Computer Supported Education. CSEDU 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1022. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21151-6_23

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