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Building National Healthcare Infrastructure: The Case of the Danish e-Health Portal

Tina Blegind Jensen  1 , Anne Asmyr Thorseng  2
Margunn Aanestad  1 , Miria Grisot  1 , Ole Hanseth  1 , Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou  1
, editors.
In: Information Infrastructures within European Health Care: Working with the Installed Base [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2017. Chapter 13.
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Building National Healthcare Infrastructure: The Case of the Danish e-Health Portal

Tina Blegind Jensen et al.
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This case chapter is about the evolution of the Danish national e-health portal, sundhed.dk, which provides patient-oriented digital services. We present how the organization behind sundhed.dk succeeded in establishing a national healthcare infrastructure by (1) collating and assembling existing data resources, (2) repurposing and enhancing current data sources in the health sector, and (3) engaging a multiplicity of stakeholders. We argue that these activities represent three ways of capitalizing on the installed base that has led to the evolution and current situation of the e-health portal. At the same time, we show how these three modes come with a number of challenges for sundhed.dk in its pursuit of further innovation.

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