Karlstad University, Information Systems

Research in the Information Systems section of the Karlstad Business School has an emphasis on human-computer interaction and designing technologies to support human to human interactions, as well as process modelling. Information communication, in text, images and talk, is central to our work. The development and use of medical records for collaboration and multidisciplinary medical teamwork is a special interest area. Technologies such as telemedicine, for example, while facilitating important collaboration over distance brings its own challenges for record-keeping and infrastructures. Protecting patient privacy in the context of privacy enhancing technologies, as well as ethics in the design and use of technologies, are also important areas for research.

Members: Bridget Kane

 

University of Skövde, Information Systems

Uppsala University, Department of Business Studies

The Department of Business Studies provides teaching and research in a wide range of areas relevant to the organization, management and entrepreneurship from a broad perspective. The Department is one of the largest at Uppsala University with more than 150 employees, and includes six full professors, more than 50 doctoral students and a large number of postdoctoral researchers. Since the mid-1990s, the reserach area of health care organization and management is one of the large research areas at the department and involves both senior researchers and doctoral students. Some examples of ongoing research are reserach on management and evaluation of highly professionalised organizations, research on organization and democracy at the boundaries between public and private, research on the communication of medical care in a digital world, and research on interaction and management of the cooperation between local governments.

Members: Gunilla Myreteg

 

Uppsala University, Department of ALM

The research at the department (especially in archival science and library- and information science) focuses on the use, organization and management of information and documents. The information and archives scientific research approach analyzes the information and documents in a larger context. The reserach creates an understanding of new and existing information infrastructures, and their impact on people’s daily life and work and the conditions for its efficiency and improving both the quality and quantity of individual, social and societal perspectives.

Members: Isto Huvila

 

Uppsala University, Department of Information Technology

The department of Information Technology is one of the largest at Uppsala University with approximately 250 employees. The DOME project mainly includes researchers in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). The HCI research is highly interdisciplinary and includes areas such behavioral science, computer science, information technology, education, ethnography, ethics etc. The HCI reserachers are working on issues related to the use of IT in the workplace, including design, organization and work environment issues. We work mainly in development projects within organizations, government agencies and industry, where our role is to ensure high usability through user-centered development process. Most of our work relates to complex computer systems for professional users and professional use. Our research in healthcare has included areas such as medical record, decision support, telemedicine, home health care and mobile computer support for caregivers.

Members: Åsa Cajander, Shweta Premanandan, Sofia Ouhbi and Magdalena Stadin

 

Uppsala University, The Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences and Ture Ålander Private Practice

The Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences have a total of about 170 employees working at the department. We have an extensive research conducted by our 12 research groups in the disciplines of public health and caring sciences. We are engaged in teaching at Med School, Nursing programs, Master’s Program in Public Health and a number of courses.

Ture Ålander is a PhD GPs and has been involved since the beginning of the SUSTAINS project. The clinic Ture Ålander has had “Care Accounts” for ten years where patients have had access over the Internet to their primary care records, certain information from hospital records, and a messaging service. Ture Ålander has been involved in evaluations of the Care account project in 2003 and 2005, and has unpublished data to analyse in this area. He collaborates with the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences at Uppsala University.

 

Uppsala University, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health

The research group PATH: Participatory eHealth and Health Data supports the continuous transformation of healthcare in Sweden and internationally through participatory research on eHealth and health data. The group works at the intersection of health sciences, implementation science, pre-clinical research, health informatics, and action research. This work includes evaluation of ethical, legal and social consequences of eHealth tools in collaboration with all stakeholders: patients, informal caregivers, healthcare professionals, researchers, healthcare organisations, industry, policymakers, and governmental authorities.

The perspectives of patients and informal caregivers is key to PATH research, supporting both patient-driven innovation and research as essential components to improve health and well-being.

Our research focuses on different types of eHealth solutions used by patients and healthcare professionals. Many studies focuses on patients access to their records, but we also study online visits, self-management and self-monitoring. We apply a sociotechnical approach, combining technical and methodological research with research on how implementation and use of eHealth affects roles, relationships and tasks for patients and healthcare professionals.

Maria Hägglund is the PI for the projects NORDeHEALTH, PACESS and Beyond Implementation of eHealth.

Members: Maria Hägglund, Anna Kharko, Charlotte Blease, Sara Riggare, Therese Scott Duncan, Josefin Hagström, Jamie Luckhaus (PhD student), Carolina Garcia Sanchez (PhD student)

 

Västra Götalandsregionen, The Institute of Stress Medicine (ISM)

The Institute of Stress Medicine (ISM) is a knowledge and research unit within Västra Götaland Region focusing on stress, mental health, and working life. The institute combines research, development, and education with the aim of increasing knowledge about stress-related ill-health and contributing to preventive and health-promoting measures in working life.

Research at ISM is interdisciplinary and covers areas such as work environment, the impact of digitalization on working conditions, recovery and rehabilitation from stress-related disorders, and the development of new methods to promote health at work. The institute has strong collaboration with healthcare, employers, and academic partners, and involves several senior researchers and doctoral students.

Members: Maral Babapour Chafi

Örebro University

The CERIS (Centre for empirical research on information systems) research environment belongs to Örebro University School of Business and specialises on informatics research from the usage, management and development/implementation perspectives. Health and Wellbeing is one of the major research areas of CERIS. The centre played an important part, with our late colleague Isabella Scandurra as a member of the management team, when the original DOME project followed and evaluated the implementation of patient accessible electronic health records in Sweden. CERIS has a strong tradition in research and teaching in the field of information security and in relation to that we are interested in bridging the fields of e-health and information security by exploring how secure information management practices can enhance the development, implementation, and use of digital health solutions. The team also spans several other research focuses related to eHealth services for patients, such as mediated communication, standardization, usability, implementation science.

Members: Jonas Moll, Elham Rostami and Gunnar Klein

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