Secure Data Exchange in Healthcare Infrastructure - A Case Study of Norway and Denmark

Abstract

This study investigates secure data exchange in healthcare infrastructures, focused on Norway and Denmark, a topic which is of increasing relevance as the sector is increasingly becoming digitized and interconnected. The research utilizes a multiple-case study and literature review, along with semi-structured interviews to reveal the tensions identified by actors in the sector. This information forms the basis for alternative approaches to resolving these tensions by further developing secure data exchange in healthcare infrastructures. Key tensions found include the need to balance efforts in standardization and flexibility in information infrastructures on a technological and organizational level, interdisciplinary differences in views on data protection and innovation, and a need for adopting new perspectives of data governance. The study highlights the importance of closer cooperation between disciplines and actors in the sector, along with an identified need for standards and shared interpretations of legal questions.