• A qualitative study of what care workers do to provide patient safety at home through telecare 

      Stokke, Randi; Melby, Line; Isaksen, Jørn; Obstfelder, Aud; Andreassen, Hege (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-05)
      Background - In health care, the work of keeping the patient safe and reducing the risk of harm is defined as safety work. In our digitised and technology-rich era, safety work usually involves a relationship between people and technologies. Telecare is one of the fastest-growing technology-domains in western health care systems. In the marketing of telecare, the expectation is that safety is implicit ...
    • Welfare Technologies in Care Work 

      Kamp, Annette; Obstfelder, Aud; Andersson, Katarina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-03)
      Welfare technologies have within the last few years become a new mantra for reforming the Nordic public health and social care, and are increasingly making their impact on working life of care professionals. Welfare technologies – a term exclusively used in a Nordic context – is a broad and loosely defined concept that covers a wide array of technologies such as tele-care solutions, automatic ...