Presentation of the research teams from each university

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 Studise provide 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, Mats Daniels, Thomas Lind, Bengt Sandblad, Christiane Grünloh. Isabella Scandurra

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 MedTech Science & Innovation (Uppsala University & Uppsala University Hospital)

Uppsala Medtech Science & Innovation centre is a collaboration between Uppsala University and Uppsala University Hospital. Partners in the centre are the disciplinary domains of Science and Technology, and Medicine and Pharmacy at Uppsala University, and Uppsala University Hospital. One research group within the center focuses on Implementation science & eHealth, and participate in the DOME consortium.

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, Annika Bärkås (PhD student), Irene Muli (PhD student), Josefin Hagström (PhD student)

Örebro University

Members: Isabella Scandurra, Gunnar Klein and Jonas Moll