Digitalisation and health data
Digitalisation and Health Data
Norway compiles some of the best health data in the world and this data provides a crucial basis for making good decisions that affect the health service.
Together with efficient digitisation of health services, streamlining the use of health data will be instrumental in achieving better, more sustainable health services.
Digitalisation
The digitalisation of health services is crucial for our ability to address demographic societal challenges and thus for enabling us to continue improving the quality of our health service.
The development of efficient digital solutions is contingent on cooperation among researchers, industry, the health services and private individuals.
An important public discourse is under way concerning the consequences of societal digitisation and the effect on ethics, privacy and data security. We want to promote dialogue and provide knowledge from the technological, medical, health and social sciences.
Health Data
Health data and health analyses must result in knowledge that improves public health.
Health data enables researchers to monitor general public health trends and the quality of the health service, and to identify the underlying causes of our current state of health and disease and the efficacy of treatment.
Several major projects relating to health data are under way. There is a need to strengthen cooperation between the health service, research and external players to ensure that health-data knowledge and expertise benefit societal development in the best possible way.