A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Healthcare as a Business Environment – Analyzing the Finnish Health Technology Industry
Authors: Reetta Raitoharju, Tuomas Ranti, Mikko Grönlund, Kaapo Seppälä
Editors: Hongxiu Li, Pirkko Nykänen, Reima Suomi, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Gunilla Widén, Ming Zhan
Conference name: International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society
Publication year: 2016
Journal: Communications in Computer and Information Science
Book title : Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems
Series title: Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume: 636
First page : 207
Last page: 220
Number of pages: 14
ISBN: 978-3-319-44671-4
eISBN: 978-3-319-44672-1
ISSN: 1865-0929
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44672-1_17
Web address : http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-44672-1_17
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.
