Challenges and Opportunities in Health Care Management

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Cost Problem in Health Care....Pages 3-13
Conceptual Modeling for Cooperation-Based Evolution of Medical Treatment....Pages 15-26
Diversity Management in the European Health Care Sector: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities....Pages 27-45
Health Care Innovation Across Health Systems....Pages 47-59
Alternative Futures for Individualized Connected Health....Pages 61-74
Medical Care Centers in Germany: An Adequate Model to Improve Health Care Delivery in Rural Areas?....Pages 75-86
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Acceptance of Process Innovations in Hospitals: Insights from the German Arthroplasty Register....Pages 89-98
Fostering Evidence-Based Design Towards Patient-Oriented and Knowledge-Driven Hospital Design....Pages 99-109
Quality of Care Assessment in Pediatrics: Are Parents the More Challenging Patients?....Pages 111-120
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Collaborative Work Development as a Resource for Innovation and Quality Improvement in Health Care: An Example from a Hospital Surgery....Pages 123-134
Mobilizing the Potential of Interprofessional Collaboration....Pages 135-143
Managing Cross-Functional Collaboration to Improve Innovativeness in Hospitals: An Overview of Hospital-Specific Characteristics and Success Factors....Pages 145-159
From Multi-professional to Trans-professional Healthcare Teams: The Critical Role of Innovation Projects....Pages 161-169
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Patient Choice and Consumerism in Healthcare: Only a Mirage of Wishful Thinking?....Pages 173-184
From Shared Decision Making to Patient Engagement in Health Care Processes: The Role of Digital Technologies....Pages 185-196
Trick or Treat: Assessing Health 2.0 and Its Prospects for Patients, Providers and Society....Pages 197-208
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Adoption and Diffusion of Innovations in Health Care....Pages 211-221
Usability Assessment of Medical Devices from a User Perspective: Results of a Focus Group Discussion....Pages 223-235
Open Innovation in Health Care....Pages 237-246
Stakeholder Variety in Healthcare and Their Integration in the Medical Device Development Process....Pages 247-258
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Disruptive Prescription for the German Health Care System?....Pages 259-275
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A Review of Scientific Evidence for Public Perspectives on Online Rating Websites of Healthcare Providers....Pages 279-290
Applying Tool-Kit-Based Modeling and Serious Play: A Japanese Case Study on Developing a Future Vision of a Regional Health Care System....Pages 291-305
Telemonitoring: Criteria for a Sustainable Implementation....Pages 307-318
Empowering Knowledge Transfer in Healthcare: A Framework of Knowledge Transfer Methods....Pages 319-328
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“Was hab’ ich?” Makes Medical Specialist Language Understandable for Patients....Pages 331-338
Project “Weisse Liste”: A German Best Practice Example for Online Provider Ratings in Health Care....Pages 339-346
Challenges of E-Health Communication: Implementation of Electronic Insurance Payment Receipts....Pages 347-353
How ICH Uses Organizational Innovations to Meet Challenges in Healthcare Management: A Hospital Case Study....Pages 355-361
Multidisciplinary Collaboration for the Development of Innovative Solutions in Health Care: The Case of the IMED Project....Pages 363-370
Group Medical Visits: Primary Care for the Next Century? Rethinking Chronic Care....Pages 371-376
Back Matter....Pages 377-393