A High Road to Dutch Healthcare Reform
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This study aims to assess the adoption potential of healthcare innovations in their infancy. Such an assessment is useful, since the context of the innovations change rapidly as a result of the health care reform process. Successful innovations comply to a complex system of social, technical, and financial attributes. First we narrow down the vast amount of innovations in healthcare into a review set of innovations and select attributes of successful innovations from literature. Next the compliance of the review set with the attributes is assessed by an expert panel. There exists no metric to objectively measure compliance and empirical data analysis cannot be performed because there are no data. Six innovations with high expectations were assessed: smart homes, eHealth, electronic health records, self management, robotic assisted devices and online health companion contacts. None complied convincingly to all attributes. Innovation in healthcare appears as a multi-level, multi-sector, multi-disciplinary transition and needs both successes and failures to make progress.
TNO Identifier
865776
ISBN
978-3-642-19647-8
Publisher
Springer
Source title
Handbook of Digital Homecare : Successes and Failures
Editor(s)
Bos, L.
Dumay, A.C.M.
Goldschmidt, L.
Verhenneman, G.
Yogesan, K.
Dumay, A.C.M.
Goldschmidt, L.
Verhenneman, G.
Yogesan, K.
Place of publication
Berlin
Pages
1-14
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