Carl Erik Moe
Centre for e-health, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway
Elin Thygesen
Centre for e-health, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway / Department of Health and Nursing Science, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
Margunn Aanestad
Centre for e-health, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway / Department of Information studies, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
Download articlePublished in: SHI 2019. Proceedings of the 17th Scandinavian Conference on Health Informatics, November 12-13, 2019, Oslo, Norway
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 161:10, p. 56-60
Published: 2019-11-07
ISBN: 978-91-7929-957-6
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
There is a strong drive for implementing technology in public health care to cope with the growing number of elderly. This paper studies the challenges in scaling up telemedical services and reports from the case of a large telemedical project, with cooperation between municipalities and hospitals, in Agder, Norway. The study applies dialectics as an analytical lens to make sense of the findings and discusses these dialectics and how the challenges may be solved.
Scaling, telemedicine, sustainability, dialectics.