Kathrine Rayce

Kathrine's research is centred on various aspects of daily life and healthcare practice related to (chronic) disease and technologies: How telemediated services are part of the daily life and professional practice of patients, their relatives and health professionals and how practices are transformed when technologies replace other functions.

Kathrine has in-depth knowledge of the healthcare system, as she has worked as a nurse, consultant and project manager in various healthcare settings: in hospitals, medical practices, patient associations and in municipal settings.

Kathrine's PhD project described how patients with very severe COPD experienced training virtually from home, what it meant for them and their relatives' daily lives, how the health professionals experienced it, and how the training practice was transformed when it became virtual.

Subsequently, Kathrine and colleagues have assessed Digital Vision I, where they describe the work that health professionals do to qualify new technologies and work processes. Not just in broad strokes, but all the micro-actions associated with testing and/or implementing technology and new workflows. Significant work that is usually not described in evaluation reports and thus becomes invisible.

Kathrine is also responsible for the assessment of Digital Vision II, where clinical departments have developed and implemented technologies that give meaning to the work inside, outside and across sector lines. Here, they particularly wanted to learn more about what it means for the clinical departments and partners to have a project manager to facilitate the work.

Kathrine also makes research-based assessments under the aegis of Health Technology Assessment (HTA). She has, for example, assessed telemediated interventions on the island of Aeroe (Assessment of Telehospice and Video Consultations for Aeroe citizens), the GERI Toolbox, the CalPro home test kit and the new concept for medicine handling.

Kathrine's research methods involve fieldwork with participant observation and (group) interviews, so that it is possible to get very close to what the practice actually consists of, how things are done, and how phenomena are expressed, which is not always the same.