A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Bridging the Gap - Health, Technology and Intermediaries
Authors: Janne Lahtiranta
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
Book title : Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems: 6th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2016, Tampere, Finland, September 16-18, 2016, Proceedings
Series title: Communications in Computer and Information Science
Number in series: 636
Volume: 636
First page : 3
Last page: 14
Number of pages: 12
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_1
Web address : http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783319446714
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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