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Dr. Elisabeth Assing Hvidt

Dr. Elisabeth Assing Hvidt

Egyetemi docens, Department of Public Health, Research Unit of General Practice, University of Southern Denmark

Associate Professor (promotion program), Department of Public Health, Research Unit of General Practice, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark

Bemutatkozás

Emberközpontú és interdiszciplináris egészségügyi kutatási megközelítésben dolgozva Elisabeth Assing Hvidt kutatása az egészségügyi ellátás kapcsolati és etikai aspektusaira, valamint arra összpontosít, hogy a digitális egészségügyi technológiák és az MI miként alakítják át és konfigurálják újra a gondoskodást. Elkötelezetten vizsgálja kritikailag, hogyan szolgálhatja a technológiai innováció a kapcsolati és etikai gondoskodást, ahelyett hogy kiszorítaná azt. Munkáját a fenomenológiát, posztfenomenológiát és Science and Technology Studies megközelítéseket ötvöző elméleti keretek alakítják. Igazolt tapasztalattal rendelkezik külső kutatási források megszerzésében, valamint interdiszciplináris projektek vezetésében és társként való irányításában az orvosi empátia és a videókonzultációk területén, amelyek hatással vannak az oktatásra, a klinikai gyakorlatra és a szakpolitikára.

Fő kutatási területek

  • Digitális egészségügy
  • Emberközpontú MI
  • Kapcsolatközpontú orvoslás
  • Empátia az egészségügyben
  • Ellátó–beteg kapcsolat

Jelenlegi pozíciók és szakmai profil

  • Egyetemi docens (előléptetési program), Department of Public Health, Research Unit of General Practice, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Dánia

Szakmai tagságok, szerepek és megbízatások

  • Vezető, Relationships and technologies interdiszciplináris kutatócsoport, University of Southern Denmark
  • Tag, Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Health, University of Southern Denmark
  • Tag, Danish Institute of Advanced Research (DIAS) klaszterei: Phenomenology of Health and Illness és Digital Health
  • Tag, Human Health platform, amely az egészség és betegség emberi aspektusainak interdiszciplináris, gyakorlatorientált kutatásával foglalkozik
  • Tanszéki tanácstag, Department of Public Health, SDU

Válogatott publikációk

  1. Assing Hvidt, E., Cairns, P. & Simonsen, L. M. (2026). The risk of empty empathy talk and challenges of automated empathy in healthcare communication. npj Digital Medicine.
  2. Simonsen, L. M., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2026). Digital health communication beyond computations. Qualitative Health Communication.
  3. Assing Hvidt, E., & Olesen, F. (2025). Empathy in technologically mediated patient-provider communication. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine.
  4. Assing Hvidt, E., Kofod, F. G., van den Heuvel, J., & Scheffmann-Petersen, M. (2025). The obscured face in video consultations. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy.
  5. van den Heuvel, J., Assing Hvidt, E., Laust Thomsen, J., Hoffmann Merrild, C. (2026). Tinkering with vulnerability in video consultation encounters. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies. Vol. 14 No. 1.
  6. van den Heuvel, J., Assing Hvidt, E., Thomsen, J. L., & Hoffmann Merrild, C. (2026). Stabilizing the use of video consultations through legitimacy work. Qualitative Health Communication.
  7. Payne, R., Kirk, U. B., Milos Nymberg, V., Sandahl, N., Huibers, L., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2025). Primary care video consultations. British Journal of General Practice.
  8. Lüchau, E. C., Olesen, F., Atherton, H., Søndergaard, J., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2024). Caring remotely through "fitting": Video consultation use in Danish general practice. Health (London).
  9. Lüchau, E. C., Olesen, F., Atherton, H., Søndergaard, J., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2024). The invisible work of video consultation use in Danish general practice: An ethnographic study. Digital Health.
  10. Larrabee Sonderlund, A., Quirina Bang Van Sas, T., Wehberg, S., Huibers, L., Nielsen, J. B., Søndergaard, J., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2024). Development of a Video Consultation Patient-Satisfaction Questionnaire (vCare-PSQ). JMIR Formative Research.
  11. Klausen, M., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2024). E-consultation as existential media. Sociology of Health and Illness.
  12. Kofod, F. G., Assing Hvidt, E., Arreskov, A. B., & Guassora, A. D. (2024). Interpersonal contact and altered sensory conditions in video consultation. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care.
  13. Lüchau, E. C., Atherton, H., Olesen, F., Søndergaard, J., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2023). Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice. Social Science & Medicine.
  14. Assing Hvidt, E., Atherton, H., Keuper, J., Kristiansen, E., Lüchau, E. C., Lønnebakke Norberg, B., ... et al. (2023). Low Adoption of Video Consultations in Post-COVID-19 General Practice. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
  15. Assing Hvidt, E., Wehberg, S., Andersen, C. M., Søndergaard, J., & Larrabee Sonderlund, A. (2023). Individual differences in empathy in Danish university students. International Journal of Social Psychiatry.
  16. Assing Hvidt, E. (2022). "Time work": An analysis of temporal experiences in the good doctor-patient relationship. Health.
  17. Assing Hvidt, E., Ulsø, A., Thorngreen, C. V., Søndergaard, J., & Andersen, C. M. (2022). Weak inclusion of the medical humanities in medical education. BMC Medical Education.
  18. Lüchau, E. C., Jepsen, C., Grønning, A., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2021). Reciprocal dynamics between patients' choice of place and how they experience video consultations: A qualitative study. Digital Health.
  19. Assing Hvidt, E., Grønning, A., Nisbeth Brøgger, M., Møller, J. E., & Fage-Butler, A. (2021). Multilevel structures and human agency in relation to email consultations. Social Science & Medicine.
  20. Assing Hvidt, E., Grønning, A., Klausen, M., & Søndergaard, J. (2021). Not just an information-delivery tool. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care.

Introduction

Taking a human-centred, interdisciplinary approach to healthcare research, my research focuses on the relational and ethical aspects of healthcare and how digital health technologies and AI reshape and reconfigure care. I am committed to critically examining how technological innovation can serve, rather than supplant, relational and ethical care. My work is informed by theoretical frameworks combining phenomenology, postphenomenology and Science and Technology Studies. I have a proven track record of securing external funding and of leading and co-leading interdisciplinary research projects on empathy in medicine and video consultations with impact on education, clinical practice, and policy.

Main research areas

  • Digital health
  • Human-centred AI
  • Relationship-centred medicine
  • Empathy in healthcare
  • Provider-patient relationship

Current positions and professional profile

  • Associate Professor (promotion program), Department of Public Health, Research Unit of General Practice, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark

Current professional memberships, roles and engagements

  • Leader of interdisciplinary research group: Relationships and technologies, University of Southern Denmark
  • Co-founder of the Caring for People and Technologies network
  • Co-founder of the NorDigiNet network of Northern European digital health researchers
  • Member of Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Health, University of Southern Denmark
  • Member of the Danish Institute of Advanced Research (DIAS) clusters: Phenomenology of Health and Illness and Digital Health
  • Member of the Human Health platform for interdisciplinary, practice-oriented research into the human aspects of health and illness
  • Department Council member, Department of Public Health, SDU

Selected publications

  1. Assing Hvidt, E., Cairns, P. & Simonsen, L. M. (2026). The risk of empty empathy talk and challenges of automated empathy in healthcare communication. npj Digital Medicine.
  2. Simonsen, L. M., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2026). Digital health communication beyond computations. Qualitative Health Communication.
  3. Assing Hvidt, E., & Olesen, F. (2025). Empathy in technologically mediated patient-provider communication. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine.
  4. Assing Hvidt, E., Kofod, F. G., van den Heuvel, J., & Scheffmann-Petersen, M. (2025). The obscured face in video consultations. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy.
  5. van den Heuvel, J., Assing Hvidt, E., Laust Thomsen, J., Hoffmann Merrild, C. (2026). Tinkering with vulnerability in video consultation encounters. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies. Vol. 14 No. 1.
  6. van den Heuvel, J., Assing Hvidt, E., Thomsen, J. L., & Hoffmann Merrild, C. (2026). Stabilizing the use of video consultations through legitimacy work. Qualitative Health Communication.
  7. Payne, R., Kirk, U. B., Milos Nymberg, V., Sandahl, N., Huibers, L., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2025). Primary care video consultations. British Journal of General Practice.
  8. Lüchau, E. C., Olesen, F., Atherton, H., Søndergaard, J., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2024). Caring remotely through "fitting": Video consultation use in Danish general practice. Health (London).
  9. Lüchau, E. C., Olesen, F., Atherton, H., Søndergaard, J., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2024). The invisible work of video consultation use in Danish general practice: An ethnographic study. Digital Health.
  10. Larrabee Sonderlund, A., Quirina Bang Van Sas, T., Wehberg, S., Huibers, L., Nielsen, J. B., Søndergaard, J., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2024). Development of a Video Consultation Patient-Satisfaction Questionnaire (vCare-PSQ). JMIR Formative Research.
  11. Klausen, M., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2024). E-consultation as existential media. Sociology of Health and Illness.
  12. Kofod, F. G., Assing Hvidt, E., Arreskov, A. B., & Guassora, A. D. (2024). Interpersonal contact and altered sensory conditions in video consultation. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care.
  13. Lüchau, E. C., Atherton, H., Olesen, F., Søndergaard, J., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2023). Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice. Social Science & Medicine.
  14. Assing Hvidt, E., Atherton, H., Keuper, J., Kristiansen, E., Lüchau, E. C., Lønnebakke Norberg, B., ... et al. (2023). Low Adoption of Video Consultations in Post-COVID-19 General Practice. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
  15. Assing Hvidt, E., Wehberg, S., Andersen, C. M., Søndergaard, J., & Larrabee Sonderlund, A. (2023). Individual differences in empathy in Danish university students. International Journal of Social Psychiatry.
  16. Assing Hvidt, E. (2022). "Time work": An analysis of temporal experiences in the good doctor-patient relationship. Health.
  17. Assing Hvidt, E., Ulsø, A., Thorngreen, C. V., Søndergaard, J., & Andersen, C. M. (2022). Weak inclusion of the medical humanities in medical education. BMC Medical Education.
  18. Lüchau, E. C., Jepsen, C., Grønning, A., & Assing Hvidt, E. (2021). Reciprocal dynamics between patients' choice of place and how they experience video consultations: A qualitative study. Digital Health.
  19. Assing Hvidt, E., Grønning, A., Nisbeth Brøgger, M., Møller, J. E., & Fage-Butler, A. (2021). Multilevel structures and human agency in relation to email consultations. Social Science & Medicine.
  20. Assing Hvidt, E., Grønning, A., Klausen, M., & Søndergaard, J. (2021). Not just an information-delivery tool. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care.