Comparing Two Definitions of ‘Welfare technology’ - An Ideal-type Analysis Using Industrial and Welfare Societies

Proceedings of the 18th international symposium on health information management research Pub Date : 2022-05-03 DOI:10.15626/ishimr.2020.09

Annika Hasselblad

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The Swedish government has recently invested millions in ‘welfare technologies’, which are aimed at both enhancing safety and solve the demographic problem of an increasing elderly population and a consequent lack of healthcare personnel. Studies have shown that when welfare technologies are implemented, core values are getting lost due to a lack of knowledge on how to transform the caregiving and care-taking relationship through the use of digital technology. This study investigates correspondences between values associated with two welfare technology definitions and the ideal-types of a welfare and an industrial society. The results show that the definition created by IT & Telecom Industries includes values that are similar to those of the industrial society ideal-type, while the definition created by the Swedish Auxiliary Institute includes values similar to those associated with the welfare society ideal-type. This shows a gap in value prioritization of the creators of these definitions, which leads to confusion regarding the purpose of welfare technologies.

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比较“福利技术”的两种定义——基于工业社会和福利社会的理想型分析

瑞典政府最近在“福利技术”上投资了数百万美元，其目的是加强安全并解决老年人口不断增加以及由此导致的保健人员缺乏的人口问题。研究表明，在实施福利技术时，由于缺乏如何通过使用数字技术改变照顾和照顾关系的知识，核心价值观正在丢失。本研究探讨与两种福利技术定义相关的价值观与福利社会和工业社会理想类型之间的对应关系。结果表明，IT和电信行业创造的定义包含与工业社会理想类型相似的价值观，而瑞典辅助研究所创造的定义包含与福利社会理想类型相关的价值观。这表明这些定义的创造者在价值优先级上存在差距，这导致了对福利技术目的的混淆。

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