Digital Health Strategies for the Future : Global, European and National Level Strategies
Snäll, Liisa (2022)
2022
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022090920020
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022090920020
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The purpose of this report was to examine digital health strategies or strategies which have an effect on health care.
As for methods, this project was done as a research based development method review, as it is health care administration’s data management. It is created according to research based development method guidelines. Data was gathered by internet searches, mainly concentrating on official pages such as UN, EU Commission and Finnish Ministries. As expected, many digitalisation strategies had similarities. Finnish strategies follow closely those set out in the EU.
It was discovered that Finland excels within the category of digitalisation at EU level. Finland has the resources to execute digitalisation strategies on a bigger scale than some other European Union countries. What was expected was that there were digitalisation strategies and goals for digitalisation set for global level of operating. Concepts which came up repeatedly were interoperability for data exchange between countries. Also the right to take governance over one’s own data and the right to access data came up repeatedly.
Health care will benefit from innovations that are meant to help health care excel in the future. These are for example Artificial Intelligence which can be used instead of human employees to perform repetitive tasks, hence freeing the employees time for face to face patient contact. This may indicate that the future of health care will undergo many distinctive changes and improvements in the nearby future. This will impact the citizen greatly as it may improve the chances of getting treatment and improve the treatment itself. Further studies could concentrate on the implementation of digitalisation strategies and measure the actual impact and cost-effectiveness of novel health technologies used within the health care sector.
As for methods, this project was done as a research based development method review, as it is health care administration’s data management. It is created according to research based development method guidelines. Data was gathered by internet searches, mainly concentrating on official pages such as UN, EU Commission and Finnish Ministries. As expected, many digitalisation strategies had similarities. Finnish strategies follow closely those set out in the EU.
It was discovered that Finland excels within the category of digitalisation at EU level. Finland has the resources to execute digitalisation strategies on a bigger scale than some other European Union countries. What was expected was that there were digitalisation strategies and goals for digitalisation set for global level of operating. Concepts which came up repeatedly were interoperability for data exchange between countries. Also the right to take governance over one’s own data and the right to access data came up repeatedly.
Health care will benefit from innovations that are meant to help health care excel in the future. These are for example Artificial Intelligence which can be used instead of human employees to perform repetitive tasks, hence freeing the employees time for face to face patient contact. This may indicate that the future of health care will undergo many distinctive changes and improvements in the nearby future. This will impact the citizen greatly as it may improve the chances of getting treatment and improve the treatment itself. Further studies could concentrate on the implementation of digitalisation strategies and measure the actual impact and cost-effectiveness of novel health technologies used within the health care sector.