Healthcare of the future: Digitalization and AI
Digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping healthcare by challenging traditional structures and creating new opportunities for increased quality, accessibility, and efficiency. At the same time, these changes raise important questions about ethics, responsibility, and safety.
The ongoing digitalization is transforming how care is delivered and received. Digital tools such as apps and online platforms create new points of contact between patients and healthcare providers, which can lead to faster and more accessible care. AI is also being used to improve diagnostics, optimize treatments, and support decision-making within healthcare.
These opportunities also come with challenges. Research in this area examines, among other things, how digital healthcare services affect patients’ health and their use of other healthcare services. Furthermore, studies investigate how digitalization changes the work of healthcare professionals and creates a need for new competencies as AI becomes part of daily practice. In addition, analyses focus on how digital tools affect healthcare organization, information management, and the legal and ethical questions that arise alongside technological development.
At the Centre for Health Governance, the impact of digitalization on healthcare is studied, with particular focus on its effects on healthcare markets and its governance-related and ethical implications. This research contributes to an understanding of how technological advances can be implemented in ways that benefit both patients and healthcare professionals.
Responsible researcher Christian Gadolin
Christian Gadolin, researcher
Department of Business Administration,
School of Business, Economics and Law,
University of Gothenburg