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21st Century Health Care … New Relationships

New technologies are reshaping the health care landscape and altering the relationships between human bodies, technologies, places, and health care work.

Technological connections blur boundaries between bodies and machine, life and death, people and physical environments, and public and private places.

Much is known about the clinical, socio-cultural, pyschological, ethical, economic, and policy consequences of technologically-mediated health care within disciplinary silos, but little is known about how these consequences intersect.

New Research

Innovative research approaches are needed to respond to these spatial, technological, and social shifts in the new health care.

HCTP is an interdisciplinary, integrated, and collaborative research and training initiative designed to respond to such need.

HCTP researchers are generating robust new conceptual tools, research methods, and evaluative models and knowledge translation techniques to advance health services research in the 21st Century.