Mari Serine Kannelønning
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo
I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, studying the scaling and adoption of AI in Norwegian public hospitals. I hold a PhD in social sciences from OsloMet, where I examined how various stakeholders, including healthcare authorities, hospital employees and AI researchers, worked in the present to shape a future with AI in healthcare, guided by certain expectations. Overall, my educational background is in information studies, technology studies and organisational studies. My research builds on a qualitative approach and is theoretically grounded in Information Systems (IS) and Science and Technology Studies (STS).
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From strategic governance to changes in and of practice: A longitudinal study of AI in the Norwegian specialist healthcare services
Norwegian specialist healthcare services are in the early stages of introducing AI into clinical practice. While expectations are high, little is known about how the ongoing implementation and scaling of emerging AI solutions will affect healthcare professionals’ practices and reshape the healthcare services more broadly.
Based on a qualitative research approach, my postdoctoral project aims to strengthen the empirical and theoretical understanding of the ongoing introduction of AI in healthcare and its (ripple) effects. Through the project, I seek to develop a sociotechnical perspective on how AI in healthcare, as a phenomenon-in-the-making, can be understood. I do so by exploring key governance and technology choices within the sector, how these choices shape the ongoing introduction of AI, how implemented technologies are perceived by healthcare professionals and how they further change medical practices.
“Based on a qualitative research approach, my postdoctoral project aims to strengthen the empirical and theoretical understanding of the ongoing introduction of AI in healthcare and its consequences”
— Mari Serine Kannelønning on her postdoctoral project “From strategic governance to changes in and of practice: A longitudinal study of AI in the Norwegian specialist healthcare services”