Be Aware! Indications for Intercultural Awareness for Digital Health Innovations and Innovation Capability

Lena Otto, Linda Kosmol, Tim Scheplitz, Hannes Schlieter

2022

Abstract

Cultural influences on single Digital Health Innovation (DHI) processes or on a society’s capability to promote DHI development and implementation remain difficult to describe and to manage on different levels of responsibility. Using Hofstede’s Dimensions of National Culture, we investigated the influence of each dimension on DHI to support awareness and to derive valuable indications for both practice and research. An expert study with 23 participants representing 13 different European countries explored the influence of a nation’s characteristic on how the DHI domain is supported or slowed down. The results describe indications for all six dimensions of Hofstede, but “Uncertainty Avoidance” and “Indulgence” are highlighted as the interviewees could assess their influence on DHI confidently. Combined with cultural aspects that do not rely on nationalities, our contribution can improve scientific and practice-oriented initiatives especially in context of international collaborations or of DHI for multi-national usage scenarios.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Otto L., Kosmol L., Scheplitz T. and Schlieter H. (2022). Be Aware! Indications for Intercultural Awareness for Digital Health Innovations and Innovation Capability. In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 4: Scale-IT-up, ISBN 978-989-758-552-4, pages 801-811. DOI: 10.5220/0011009900003123

in Bibtex Style

@conference{scale-it-up22,
author={Lena Otto and Linda Kosmol and Tim Scheplitz and Hannes Schlieter},
title={Be Aware! Indications for Intercultural Awareness for Digital Health Innovations and Innovation Capability},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 4: Scale-IT-up,},
year={2022},
pages={801-811},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011009900003123},
isbn={978-989-758-552-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 4: Scale-IT-up,
TI - Be Aware! Indications for Intercultural Awareness for Digital Health Innovations and Innovation Capability
SN - 978-989-758-552-4
AU - Otto L.
AU - Kosmol L.
AU - Scheplitz T.
AU - Schlieter H.
PY - 2022
SP - 801
EP - 811
DO - 10.5220/0011009900003123