New professor investigates the interplay between modern technology and clinical practice
Mette Terp Høybye is a new professor of medical anthropology at Aarhus University. Her research will increase our knowledge about how the use of new technology affects workflows, decision-making processes, and dilemmas for healthcare professionals in clinical practice.
The healthcare sector has always utilised the latest technology to provide medical doctors and other healthcare professionals with a greater knowledge base on which to make diagnoses and plan treatment pathways.
Via observation and interviews, new professor Mette Terp Høybye is examining how the introduction of new technology changes clinical practice. Can we for example always rely on the machine’s measurements and assessments? And how does the doctor’s professional intuition and relationship with the patient affect the overall picture?
Amongst other things, her research illuminates the ethical dilemmas that arise when technology forms the basis for difficult decisions that can ultimately mean life or death for the patient. She finds the professorship to be a support for medical anthropology as a field of research, and a recognition of the complexity of the human issues that are present in clinical practice.
Contact
Professor and PhD Mette Terp Høybye
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine and
Silkeborg Regional Hospital, Centre for Planned Surgery
Mobile: (+45) 61 10 60 66
Mail: hoybye@clin.au.dk