Martine Minge Tveitan

PhD candidate at USN

I am a PhD candidate in Health and Social Sciences at University of South-Eastern Norway and affiliated with Center for Health and Technology. I have a background as a radiographer and the interest in health and technology has always been a core element in my curiosity. In 2020 I finished a master’s degree in health promotion, and in 2021 master courses in health and welfare technology. My PhD project will explore how self-treatment plans are used in remote patient monitoring from the perspectives of healthcare providers, vendors and patients in hospitals and municipalities. The PhD project is part of a lager capacity building project, Co-created health technology (CoTecH) that focuses on digital health and technology.

Tell us about your project!

The PhD project is a mixed-method multiple case study that will explore how self-treatment plans are used in remote patient monitoring from the perspectives of healthcare providers, vendors and patients in hospitals and municipalities.

Society is facing demographic challenges, with an aging population that lives longer with increasingly complex medical needs, and at the same time there is a lack of healthcare providers to take care of patients. The transformation of healthcare services, where patients in greater extent meet healthcare services in their homes and take more responsibilities for own health are current topics. Self-treatment plans and remote patient monitoring could be means to bridge the gap between patients' needs and the capacity of health and care services both now and in the future.

There is a need to investigate the knowledge base, the development, and the follow-up of self-treatment plans in the hospitals and municipalities, as well as to explore patients' experience with self-treatment plans. These aims will be examined in two different studies.

“There is a need to investigate the knowledge base, the development, and the follow-up of self-treatment plans in the hospitals and municipalities, as well as to explore patients' experience with self-treatment plans”

— Martine Minge Tveitan on her PhD project “Self-treatment plans in remote patient monitoring”