Theme IV
Theme IV researchers have excellent experience in linking value creation mechanisms with different institutional contexts, relevant to the FinMedTechNet consortium. The important strength of the consortium is the ability to analyze FinMedTechNet as a hybrid system with multiple ownership schemes, public-private mixes in funding and the possible incongruence of the objectives of scientific endeavors, business profitability logics and preserving public goods.
The research group has an extensive experience in health informatics standardization since 1994 with a contribution to global standards through CEN/TC251, ISO/TC215 and IEEE 11073. In addition, the group is represented in SFS and ISO standardization activities on Artificial Intelligence (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42 Artificial Intelligence) and assessment of national digital health care environments via the Nordic eHealth Research Network, with a connection to OECD and WHO benchmarking work.
The research group members hold several positions of trust in national level boards in the healthcare sector and they participate extensively in national expert groups for e.g. various ministries, and are members of national expert groups in ethics, such as the Ethical Board of the Finnish Centre for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI).
Moreover, the group has continuous cooperation with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) at the national level and close cooperation with CERN innovation network and ECIU education network, offering valuable connections to European research, education and innovation networks and opening wide collaboration channels for new MedTech innovations and novel multidisciplinary RDI partnerships.
Within theme IV, the research group members represent the total value chain from basic research to medical device development process and up to assessment of the health technology solutions in a clinical environment and as a part of wider health system. The international reach and impact of the research teams is further testified in research team members holding several senior editorial positions in leading academic journals in their respective fields.
Selected references
Value creation and ecosystems
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Gomes JF et al. Towards business ecosystems for connected health. Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare, [S.l.], v. 9, n. 2-3, p. 95-111, may 2017. ISSN 1798-0798.
Gomes JF, Kemppainen L, Pikkarainen M, Koivumäki T, Ahokangas P. Ecosystemic business model scenarios for connected health. Journal of Business Models (2019), Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 27-33. http://journalofbusinessmodels.com/vol-7-no-4-2019/vol-7-no-4-05/
Litovuo L, Makkonen H, Aarikka-Stenroos L, Luhtala L, Mäkinen S. (2017) Ecosystem approach on medical game development: The relevant actors, value propositions and innovation barriers. Association for Computing Machinery, ACM: AcademicMindtrek’17, Sept. 20th-21st, 2017 Tampere Hall, Tampere, Finland. Tampere, Finland: ACM Press, 10
Myllärniemi J & Helander N. (2012) Healthcare system as a value network. World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sust. Development, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2012.
Vakkuri J & Johanson J-E. (Forthcoming) Hybrid governance, organisations and society. Value creation perspectives. Abingdon & New York, Routledge, to be published in October, 2020.
Business
Gomes JF, Iivari M, Pikkarainen M, Ahokangas P. (2018) Business Models as Enablers of Ecosystemic Interaction: A Dynamic Capability Perspective. International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development (IJSESD), 9(3), 1-13. doi:10.4018/IJSESD.2018070101.
Hakanen T, Helander N, Valkokari K. (2017) Servitization in global business-to-business distribution: The central activities of manufacturers. Industrial Marketing Management 5:63, pp. 167-178.
Helander N & Vuori V. (2017) Value Co-creation Analysis in Customer–Supplier Network Relationships. In: Vesalainen et al.: Practices for Network Management, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 251-262.
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Pikkarainen M, Huhtala T, Kemppainen L, Häikiö J. (2019) Success factors for data–driven service delivery networks. Journal of Innovation Management, www.open-jim.org, 7(4), 14-46. https://doi.org/10.24840/2183-0606_007.004_0003
Saari U, Aarikka-Stenroos L, Köppä L, Langwaldt J, Boedeker S, Mäkinen S. (2018) Sustainable Business Model Ideation and Development of Early Ideas for Sustainable Business Models: Analyzing a New Tool Facilitating the Ideation Process, in Sustainable Business Models : Innovation, Implementation and Success. Aagaard, A. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, s. 119-150 (Studies in Sustainable Business In Association with Future Earth).
Innovation
Haukipuro L, Väinämö S, Arhippainen L, Ojala T. (2019) Applying a Living Lab Approach Within an eHealth Accelerator. Technology Innovation Management Review, 9(3): 6-19. http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1221
Haukipuro L, Väinämö S, Hyrkäs P. (2018) Innovation Instruments to Co-Create Needs-Based Solutions in a Living Lab. Technology Innovation Management Review, 8(5): 22-35. http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1156
Hyrkäs P, Haukipuro L, Väinämö S, Iivari M, Sachinopoulou A, Majava J. (2020) Collaborative innovation in healthcare: a case study of hospitals as innovation platforms, International Journal of Value Chain Management, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.24–41. https://www.inderscience.com/offer.php?id=105475
Mäkinen SJ. (2020) Sustainable Disruptive Innovation (SDI): Initiating Systemic Changes by Reconfiguring User Preferences. In: Leal Filho W., Azul A., Brandli L., Özuyar P., Wall T. (eds) Affordable and Clean Energy. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71057-0_9-1
Pikkarainen M, Hyrkäs E, Martin M. (2020) Success Factors of Demand-Driven Open Innovation as a Policy Instrument in the Case of the Healthcare Industry. J. Open Innov. Technol. Mark. Complex. 2020, 6, 39.
Väyrynen H, Helander N, Vasell T. (2017) Knowledge management for open innovation: comparing research results between SMEs and large companies. International Journal of Innovation Management, 21 (05), 2017
Digital and personal health
Hyppönen H, Lumme S, Reponen J, Vänskä J, Kaipio J, Heponiemi T, Lääveri T. (2019) Health information exchange in Finland: Usage of different access types and predictors of paper use. International journal of medical informatics 122, 1-6, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2018.11.005.
Häikiö J, Yli-Kauhaluoma S, Pikkarainen M, et al. Expectations to data: Perspectives of service providers and users of future health and wellness services. Health Technol. 10, 621–636 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-020-00410-z
Koivumäki T, Pekkarinen S, Lappi M, Väisänen J, Juntunen J, Pikkarainen M. Consumer Adoption of Future MyData-Based Preventive eHealth Services: An Acceptance Model and Survey Study. J Med Internet Res 2017;19(12):e429. DOI: 10.2196/jmir.7821. PMID: 29273574. PMCID: 5756317
Pikkarainen M, Koivumäki T, Iivari M. (2020) Seizing the Business Opportunities of the MyData Service Delivery Network: Transforming the Business Models of Health Insurance Companies, Journal of business models, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 39-56. http://journalofbusinessmodels.com/media/1355/v8n2-pp-39-56.pdf
Pikkarainen M, Pekkarinen S, Koivumäki T, Huhtala TT. (2018) Data as a driver for a shaping practices and innovation in preventive health care ecosystem. Journal of Innovation Management, 6(1), 55-79. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/111571
Health care processes
Hakari K & Tynkkynen L-K. 2013. Governing the Innovation Process: Tools of Meta-Governance–The Kotitori Model in Tampere Finland. International Journal of Public and Private Healthcare Management and Economics 3(1): 1-16.
Johnsen Å, van Helden J, Vakkuri J. (2012) Evaluating Public Sector Performance Management: The Life Cycle Approach, Evaluation 18 (2), 159-175. https://doi.org/10.1177/1356389012442978
Jormanainen V, Parhiala K, Reponen J. (2019) Highly concentrated markets of electronic health records data systems in public health centres and specialist care hospitals in 2017 in Finland. Finnish Journal of EHealth and EWelfare, 11(1-2), 109-124. https://doi.org/10.23996/fjhw.75554
Kork A-A & Vakkuri J. (2016) Improving access and managing healthcare demand with walk-in clinic: Convenient, but at what cost? International Journal of Public Sector Management 29(2), 148-163.
Mäkinen EI, Evans ED, McFarland DA. (2020) The Patterning of collaborative behavior and knowledge culminations in interdisciplinary research centers. Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 58(1): 71–95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-019-09381-6
Niemelä R, Pikkarainen M, Ervasti M, Reponen J. (2019) The change of pediatric surgery practice due to the emergence of connected health technologies. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 146, 352-365.
Health policy and management
Ahokangas P, Perälä-Heape M, Jämsä T. 2015 Challenges and opportunities in health care management, 1 edited by Sebastian Gurtner; Katja Soyez, 01/2015: chapter Alternative Futures for Individualized Connected Health: pages 61-74; Springer International Publishing., ISBN: 978-3-319-12178-9
Grossi G, Reichard C, Thomasson A, Vakkuri J. (2017) Performance measurement of hybrid organizations – emerging issues and future research perspectives, Public Money & Management 37(6), 379-386.
Johanson J-E & Vakkuri J. (2017) Governing Hybrid Organisations. Exploring Diversity of Institutional Life. London, New York: Routledge.
Karila A, Vakkuri J, Lehto J. (2020) Budgetary bias in the Finnish public hospital system. International Journal of Public Sector Management 33 (4), 401-418.
Mäkinen EI (2018): Complexity leadership theory and the leaders of transdisciplinary science. Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline 21: 133–155. https://doi.org/10.28945/4009
Vakkuri J & Johanson J-E. (2020) Failed promises – performance measurement ambiguities in hybrid universities. Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management 17 (1), 33-50.
Wise PH, Shaw GM, Druzin ML, Darmstadt GL, Quaintance C, Mäkinen EI, et al. (2017) Risky business: Meeting the structural needs of transdisciplinary science. Journal of Pediatrics 91: 255–258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.08.072
Health regulatory and assessment
Haverinen J, Keränen N, Falkenbach P, Maijala A, Kolehmainen T, Reponen J. (2019) Digi-HTA: Health technology assessment framework for digital healthcare services. Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare, 11(4), 326–341. https://doi.org/10.23996/fjhw.82538
Hyppönen H, Reponen J, Lääveri T, Kaipio J. (2015) User experiences with different regional health information exchange systems in Finland. Int J Med Inform. 83(1):1-18. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2013.10.002.
Kaipio J, Lääveri T, Hyppönen H, Vainiomäki S, Reponen J, Kushnirukg A, Boryckig E, Vänskä J. (2017) Usability problems do not heal by themselves: National survey on physicians’ experiences with EHRs in Finland. International journal of medical informatics 97, 266-281. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2016.10.010.
Tynkkynen L-K, Vrangbaek K. 2018. Comparing public and private providers: a scoping review of hospital services in Europe. BMC Health Services Research 18:141.
Viitanen J, Hyppönen H, Lääveri T, Vänskä J, Reponen J, Winblad I. (2011) National questionnaire study on clinical ICT systems proofs: physicians suffer from poor usability. Int J Med Inform. 80(10):708-25.
Värri A, Kranz-Zuppan P, de la Cruz R. IEC 62304 Ed. 2: Software Life Cycle Standard for Health Software. Proceedings of MEDINFO 2019: Health and Wellbeing e-Networks for All, Ohno-Machado L and Séroussi B. (Eds.), pp. 868-872. IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI190347
Ylilehto MH, Saarivesi E, Reponen J, Liljamo P. (2019) Combining end-user recruitment methods for usability testing of eTriage Service . Finnish Journal of EHealth and EWelfare, 11(4), 311–319. https://doi.org/10.23996/fjhw.82596
Ethics
Leikas J, Koivisto R, Gotcheva N. (2019) Ethical framework for designing autonomous systems. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity (ISSN 2199-8531). Special Issue on Technology Driven Innovation, Research Management and Policy Making. J. Open Innov. Technol. Mark. Complex. 2019, 5, 18; doi:10.3390/joitmc5010018
Nieminen M, Gotcheva N, Leikas J, Koivisto R. (2019) Ethical AI for the Governance of the Society: Challenges and Opportunities. Proceedings of Third Annual Seminar on Technology Ethics 2019, Turku, Finland, October 23-24, 2019. Rantanen, M. M. & Koskinen, J. (eds.). CEUR-WS, 7 p. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2505), pp. 20-27.
Saariluoma P & Leikas J. (2020) Designing Ethical AI in the Shadow of Hume’s Guillotine. In: Ahram T., Karwowski W., Vergnano A., Leali F., Taiar R. (eds) Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2020. IHSI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1131, pp. 594.599. Springer, Cham
Theme II
What is FinMedTechNet?
FinMedTechNet is a joint initiative among two Finnish universities – Tampere University and University of Oulu – and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. to collaborate in research and in commercialization activities in the medical technology field.
What do we do?
We develop action models and supporting activities for researchers, and improve the communication among all the stakeholders, including local university hospitals, health hubs and districts as well as international competence centers and companies.