State of the Nordic Region 2020: Wellbeing, health and digitalisation edition

The Nordic Region is at the forefront of adopting digital solutions in health care and social care. For example, in a European context, Denmark, Fin- land and Sweden have among the highest levels of eHealth solutions offered in primary health care (Lupiáñez-Villanueva et al., 2018). Digital solutions in health care and social care are considered cen- tral to managing the pressures associated with demographic developments involving an ageing population, a decreasing working-age population, and more people living with one or several chronic illnesses. These developments place substantial challenges on the health care and social care sec- tors in terms of both the economy and labour force (SOU, 2018).