Establishing Baseline in the Status of E-health Research in Norway

摘要

E-health is a rapidly evolving research field. In Norway, it is governed by the National E-health Strategy, defining six focus areas to be addressed by both academics and industry. The strategy is relatively new and much research in the field has been performed before it was developed. Literature search and machine learning classification methods were used to map scientific publications into the focus areas of the National E-health Strategy. Results showed that all strategic areas were represented in scientific publications; one focus area, new ways to provide healthcare, attracted the most attention from research communities. This paper presents a method and baseline of e-health research activities in Norway alongside the initial results of applying this method to the existing body of literature.