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Bridging the Gap - Health, Technology and Intermediaries

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Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems (WIS 2016)

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The demands for health care services are rising steadily. To meet these demands, the prevailing health care paradigm has been put under scrutiny. We have already passed the verge of a paradigm shift where patients are regarded cooperative partners who play an important role in their own care. In the core of this ongoing shift is technology that enables a new kind of service provisioning and digitalization of services. This has created a dilemma; how the patients who are not able (or willing) to use these new services can be reached? To answer this question, a fresh outlook on the roles related to health service provisioning is needed. This examination calls for identification of health technology intermediaries, mediators, who stand at the crossroad of health, care and technology. This exploratory work will look into the intermediary roles, outlining a set of skills and capabilities needed from a mediator.

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    Data from South Korea was not comparable as it included mobile phone access.

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

    Janne Lahtiranta

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  1. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Hongxiu Li

  2. University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

    Pirkko Nykänen

  3. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Reima Suomi

  4. Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

    Nilmini Wickramasinghe

  5. Ã…bo Academi University, Turku, Finland

    Gunilla Widén

  6. Ã…bo Academi University, Turku, Finland

    Ming Zhan

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Lahtiranta, J. (2016). Bridging the Gap - Health, Technology and Intermediaries. In: Li, H., Nykänen, P., Suomi, R., Wickramasinghe, N., Widén, G., Zhan, M. (eds) Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems. WIS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 636. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44672-1_1

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