eHealth and Serious
Games
Research group leader
Elina Kontio PhD, RN
Ongoing projects
Gamified Solutions in
Healthcare
eMedic – Developing New
Practices for
Teleconsultation and
Diabetes
ICT-portti
Turku Game Lab
Start-up and Spin-off
Factory
eHealth and Serious Games
Our group uses well-being technology and gaming applications,
systems and processes to provide human-centric services that
support and maintain people’s quality of life, well-being, health and
functional capacity.
In addition to personal well-being, we also develop patient
monitoring and IT systems and develop games.
Our research and development projects are grouped under the
following themes:
• product development for well-being and game technology;
• information management;
• development of services associated with health and wellbeing.
Leaflet about eHealth and Serious Games
Members
Teppo Saarenpää
Reetta Raitoharju
Jaana Heinonen
Olli Ojala
Mika Luimula
Taisto Suominen
Marika Säisä
Tiina Ferm
Markku Rajala
Paula Pitkäkangas
Harri Jalonen
Jarkko Paavola
Anu Havisto
Markus Forsten
Katriina Niemelä
Partners
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University of Turku
Åbo Akademi University
FiHTA
IKITIK
Terve!Foorumi
http://www.tuas.fi/en/research-and-development/research-groups/ehealth-andserious-games/
Most recent publications
and products
Raitoharju, R. & Kontio, E.
2014. eTerveys – pilottien
jatkuvuussuunnittelu Case
eMedic. Finnish Journal of
eHealth and eWelfare, 2
(2-3), 136-141.
Elina Kontio, Antti Airola,
Tapio Pahikkala, Heljä
Lundgren-Laine, Kristiina
Junttila, Heikki Korvenranta,
Tapio Salakoski, Sanna
Salanterä. 2014. Predicting
patient acuity from
electronic patient records.
Journal of Biomedical
Informatics 04/2014.
eMedic - Developing New
Practices for
Teleconsultation and
Diabetes
Kontio, E.,Lundgren-Laine,
H., Kontio, J., Korvenranta,
H. & Salanterä, S. 2013.
Information utilization for
tactical decision making of
health manager in cardiac
patient process. CIN;
Computers, Informatics,
Nursing, 31(1), 9–16.
(IF:0.831)
Kontio, E., Lundgren-Laine,
H., Kontio, J., Korvenranta,
H. & Salanterä, S. 2013.
Enterprise resource
planning systems in
healthcare: A qualitative
review. Accepted in
International Journal of
Information Systems in
Service Sector
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Sotetite
ENoLL
Varsinais-Suomen sairaanhoitopiiri
Turku Science Park
Everon
Miratel
Fujitsu
CGI
Medbit
Evondos
Entter
BCB Medical
Ocuspecto
http://www.tuas.fi/en/research-and-development/research-groups/ehealth-andserious-games/