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Healthcare as a Business Environment – Analyzing the Finnish Health Technology Industry
Tekijät: Reetta Raitoharju, Tuomas Ranti, Mikko Grönlund, Kaapo Seppälä
Toimittaja: Hongxiu Li, Pirkko Nykänen, Reima Suomi, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Gunilla Widén, Ming Zhan
Konferenssin vakiintunut nimi: International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society
Julkaisuvuosi: 2016
Journal: Communications in Computer and Information Science
Kokoomateoksen nimi: Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems
Sarjan nimi: Communications in Computer and Information Science
Vuosikerta: 636
Aloitussivu: 207
Lopetussivu: 220
Sivujen määrä: 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
Verkko-osoite: 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.
