Margaret Ottesen

PhD Candidate at NTNU

Ottesen is writing her PhD about digitalization in health care and the use of digitized health data for the DigiFrailCare project. Ottesen holds a bachelor’s degree in Nursing from Høgskolen i Sør-Trøndelag and a master’s degree in Physical Activity and Health from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Prior to her current position, she worked as a nurse in home care.

Tell us about your project!

Considering the demographic development in Norway, sustainable health services for frail older people are highly needed. The DigiFrailCare project targets digitalization and the use of digitized health data to improve health services for older people at risk of or with frailty. Data regarding how human and non-human actors have an impact when implementing the Health Platform, and which infrastructures, systems, and groups the implementation is dependent on will be collected and analyzed. A new tool that supports decision-making and personalization of interventions will be developed to facilitate collaboration between health professionals, thus facilitating prevention.

“Considering the demographic development in Norway, sustainable health services for frail older people are highly needed.”

— Margaret Ottesen on her research project “DigiFrailCare”