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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.

Technologies blur the edges between public and private spaces, bodies and machines, life and death, and geographic regions that hitherto were economically and jurisdictionally separate.

Moreover, new technologies have extended contemporary health care settings to include not only hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies, but also the places where people live, work, play, shop, surf the Net, and go to school.

Little is known about the consequences of – or the best approaches for – providing and receiving technology-mediated health care in settings that were designed for other purposes.

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, 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.