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Technology in Health Care. A New Research and Teaching Subject in Collaboration Between Nursing and Engineering

Authors:
Britt Östlund
Gunilla Björling
Janet Mattsson
Sara Stridh
Madeleine Sahlström

Keywords: collaboration, nursing science, caring science, engineering, patient support, digitization.

Abstract:
Today, health care systems face a number of challenges related to technological developments. This work in progress is a new Swedish initiative for collaboration between nursing science and engineering focusing digitization, demographics and participation. The initiative aims at understanding how digitization affects patients and health care professionals and the role of engineers and how this collaboration proactively contributes to systems that support caring and nursing. The presentation expects input on the programs substance and boundaries and whether this initiative is fruitful to create sustainable health care systems.

Pages: 46 to 49

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: March 19, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-540-1

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from March 19, 2017 to March 23, 2017