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Healthcare as a Business Environment – Analyzing the Finnish Health Technology Industry

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Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems (WIS 2016)

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Health technology is the fastest growing high technology field in Finland. However, developing new products, getting international or finding new markets can be challenging in the highly regulated and rapidly changing healthcare environment. This paper presents issues in healthcare as a business environment. A financial analysis was conducted to get an overview about the current stage of Finnish health technology industry. A survey was also conducted in order to find out the challenges Finnish health technology companies are facing. The preliminary results of this financial analysis and survey are reported and then discussed.

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Acknowledgements

This research has been conducted as part of the TELI project financed by the INKA (Innovative Cities) program and the European Regional Development Fund.

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  1. Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland

    Reetta Raitoharju

  2. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Tuomas Ranti, Mikko Grönlund & Kaapo Seppälä

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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. Åbo Academi University, Turku, Finland

    Gunilla Widén

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Raitoharju, R., Ranti, T., Grönlund, M., Seppälä, K. (2016). Healthcare as a Business Environment – Analyzing the Finnish Health Technology Industry. 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_17

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