Globally, countries are investing substantially in e-health. Failures of programs to achieve valuable economic, clinical and societal outcome are increasingly reported. Unsuitable governance models may be one explanation. Research on governance models’ usefulness for realization of valuable outcomes is incomplete and scattered. Our goal is to fill this gap by producing knowledge on e-governance in Norway. Our hypotheses are: i) Co-governance and Relational Coordination will positively impact the realization of valuable outcome; and, ii) Multilateral stakeholder dialogue and collaboration, including health service delivery perspective, have been proposed to innovate health technology assessment (HTA). This will improve the relevance of HTA e-governance research.

We undertook the following: i) Systematic Review of e-governance in healthcare ii) Participatory observations, in depth interviews/focus groups iii) Document retrieval and analyses iv) Creation and support of arenas for dialogue between stakeholders on values and governance v) Analyses of co-produced value adjustments vi) Analyses of the usefulness of the Scientific Dialogue Approach for changing HTA paradigms. The study populations were: i) Governmental bodies responsible for innovation of the electronic health record (EHR) in Norway; ii) Regional and municipal authorities and management responsible for implementation of her; and, iii) The leaders of different levels at a municipal “Health House” established as a hybrid between primary and specialist health services

The project runs between January 2018–2022. Expected findings are: i) Diverging and common values; ii) Diverging governance models; iii) Diverging attitudes towards “best governance practices”; iv) Diverging levels of trust; v) Different world views, belief-systems and individual values; vi) Attitudes towards consensus building or conflict; and, vii) Experiences to feed into the discussion of stakeholder dialogue as an HTA approach.

We expect: i) To present results from the systematic review and preliminary findings from the first phases of participatory observations; ii) That results from the overall project will have high impact on the Norwegian governance models of e-health; and, iii) Publications in high impact scientific journals.