Innovation Management, Healthcare Challenges and eHealth

Nicola Cobelli
Additional contact information
Nicola Cobelli: The University of Verona

Chapter Chapter 1 in Innovation in Community-Based Private Practices Through eHealth, 2020, pp 1-20 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Over the past years, the conviction that the healthcare systems, particularly in the most developed countries, need reconstruction and reorganisation has been strengthening. Therefore, it is interesting, in this first chapter, to discuss the crisis facing traditional healthcare systems, which are under enormous pressure to provide sustainable, innovative ways of delivering healthcare services and products. This chapter will focus on the Italian healthcare system and on the relevance in this country of new non-medical health professions, which supply new products and deliver new services. Most of these function as community-based private practices and are proper retailers. Thus, their work contributes to the operation of the National Health System, and they can take advantage of relevant new technological tools that are otherwise available only to the public National Health System. Moreover, the private nature of these practices offers them flexibility and agility, such that they are the first potential beneficiaries by their use of new technological tools. Indeed, an incredible revolution is occurring in terms of the accessibility and availability of health information, products and services through the Internet. As a result, the changing role of the patient is strictly linked to the use of information technology, in the context of the so-called eHealth field, a paradigm that will be discussed based on an extensive literature review, with the aim of defining the current position of the research, managerial and social actions and implications related to eHealth.

Keywords: eHealth; Healthcare systems; Innovation management; Healthcare management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:isichp:978-3-030-48177-3_1

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030481773

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-48177-3_1

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in International Series in Advanced Management Studies from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().