ABSTRACT
The use of technology in health and social sector has increased lately due to its huge potential in solving challenges caused by the aging of the population, in helping the healthcare professionals’ work, and especially in enabling living to full capacity despite possible personal limitations and disabilities. Nowadays, the technology can be implanted or wore, or may be part of our environment. Information and communication technology (ICT), electronics, and automation have already had a huge effect on various fields of business. The same technology that is targeted for industrial use has also many applications in health and well-being. The demographics and lack of resources in health and well-being industry are increasingly forcing us to find alternative solutions for more individualized care or social services. Smart technologies provide enormous potential for solving this challenge. However, technology industry, healthcare industry, and social services sector have not yet been accustomed to collaborate deeply that is needed to make the technology serve this purpose. Smart eHealth and eCare Technology is no-mans-land due to its multidisciplinary nature, and very few people have adequate expertise and experience from all fields concerned-technology, healthcare, and social sector. The lack of common understanding has led to wrong kinds of technology products that do not
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