Open AccessVelferdsteknologi – fremtidens helsevesen med eller uten omsorg?
Author(s) -
Stine Hauvik,
Solfrid Vatne
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
nordisk tidsskrift for helseforskning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1891-2982
pISSN - 1504-3614
DOI - 10.7557/14.4803
Subject(s) - obligation , health care , public relations , welfare , power (physics) , quality (philosophy) , healthcare system , earnings , business , political science , nursing , medicine , law , accounting , philosophy , epistemology , physics , quantum mechanics
Welfare technology - healthcare in the future with or without care?
In the future, it will be a challenge to maintain today’s quality of care. Welfare technology may be a solution to reduce the expected care crisis. The public healthcare system is influenced by New Public Management ideals as” what can we afford? rather than “what are the patients` need”. Questions concerning patients’ rights and healthcare providers’ moral obligation seem to be less important. In the discussion Martinsen criticizes that caring has become a secondary term where patients` have less power. To increase the patient’s user involvement, Habermas suggests communicative discourse as a solution to the discrepancy between the public healthcare systems focus on earnings, and the patients’ need for care.