Many facets of digitalization in health and social care, eHealth in a lifecycle

Abstract

In spite of the challenging pandemic time Finnish Society of Telemedicine and eHealth (FSTeH) organized the annual conference in October 2021, and changed the traditional conference format to a hybrid conference. In Finland domestic participants were on site in Oulu while international participants were connected via a videoconference link. With the support of International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH) the conference gained a good visibility and the number of participants was satisfactory in these difficult times. This FinJeHeW issue is publishing selected peerreviewed research papers from our conference. The conference themes were discussing digital health trends and solutions from European, Scandinavian and Finnish perspectives. Our knowledge was updated e.g. about assessment of digital applications and services, innovation activities, eHealth skills, citizen involvement and accessible health record portals for patients.