Digital Transformation and Public Services: Societal Impacts in Sweden and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781032088303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 354 str.

Anthony Larsson; Robin Teigland

Opis

Investigates, through a series of different studies, if and how digitalization causes, or may cause, the autonomy of societal functions from various state/governmental actors, and the ensuing implications thereof and encompasses different studies by multiple researchers and experts in the field.

Spis treści

An Introduction to Digital Welfare: A Way Forward? Part 1. 2. Telemedicine and the Welfare State: The Swedish Experience 3. Welfare Services in an Era of Digital Disruption: How Digitalization Reshapes the Health Care Market 4. Centralization vs. Decentralization on the Blockchain in a Health Information Exchange Context 5. Digitalization of Health in Sweden to Benefit Patients 6. Personalized Predictive Health Care: How Predictive AI Platforms Will Transform the Health Care Industry 7. Digital Dentistry: A Solution to the Dentistry Crisis? 8. Solutions Based on Digital Connected Devices for Social Care and Wellbeing Part 2. 9. Educational Technology (EdTech): Unbounded Opportunities or Just Another Brick in the Wall? 10. Education at the Intersection: A Practitioner’s View of the Effect of Digital Transformation on Public Education Part 3. 11. Citizen Protection: A Capabilities and Intentions Framework 12. Societal Security: How Digitalization Enables Resilient, Agile, and Learning Capabilities 13. Digital Identity – Beyond Verification: To a Transparent (Decentralized) System for Data and Identity Monitoring and Control Part 4. 14. Cashless: A Dead End for Sweden? 15. Future Consumption of Welfare Services: How the Change in Consumer Expectations Will Affect Offerings and Business Models in Welfare 16. The Trust Revolution: Blockchain’s Potential to Resolve Institutional Inefficiencies 17. The Future of the Nation-State: How the Nation-State Can Find a Way Through Digitalization 18. Digitalization Has Changed the Foundation of the Democracy 19. Conclusion: Digital Welfare – Now and Forever? Afterword: Technology – The Solution to All Welfare Challenges?