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

: Reetta Raitoharju, Tuomas Ranti, Mikko Grönlund, Kaapo Seppälä

: Hongxiu Li, Pirkko Nykänen, Reima Suomi, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Gunilla Widén, Ming Zhan

: International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society

: 2016

: Communications in Computer and Information Science

: Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems

: Communications in Computer and Information Science

: 636

: 207

: 220

: 14

: 978-3-319-44671-4

: 978-3-319-44672-1

: 1865-0929

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44672-1_17(external)

: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-44672-1_17(external)

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.