Editors:
Provides insights into service design practices in the healthcare and hospital sector
Highlights successful approaches, suitable methods and tools for innovative health care services
Written by renowned scholars and pracitioneers from health care institutions
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book offers an overview of service design practices for healthcare and hospital management. It explores how these practices can help to generate innovations in healthcare and contribute to the improvement of patient-centered care. Respected experts, including scholars from various disciplines and practitioners from healthcare institutions, share essential insights into established research areas, fields of work and work structures, and discuss successful approaches, methods and tools. By illustrating innovative services, products, processes, systems, and technologies, as well as their application in practice, the authors highlight the role of participating stakeholders in service design projects and the added value that comes from sharing, communicating, networking and collaborating.
This book is a must-read for scholars and practitioners in the hospital and healthcare sector. It will also appeal to anyone interested in organizational development, service business model innovation, customer involvement and perceptions, and service experience.Keywords
- health care management
- health economics
- service design practices
- hospital management
- healthcare market
- user experience
- service delivery in health care
- service thinking in health care
- innovation in healthcare products
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Healthcare Management, Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Neu-Ulm, Germany
Mario A. Pfannstiel
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Management, Professional Services and Sport Economics, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Nataliia Brehmer
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Management, Professional Services and Sport Economics, University of Potsdam, Postdam, Germany
Christoph Rasche
About the editors
Prof. Dr. Mario A. Pfannstiel is a researcher and lecturer in the field of healthcare service management at the University of Applied Sciences in Neu-Ulm, Germany. He is the program director of the Digital Healthcare Management Master's program. His current research interests focus on innovative services, service design, service business model innovation, artificial intelligence in healthcare service delivery and innovation and technology management.
Nataliia Brehmer is a research associate and lecturer in the field of strategic management, consulting, sports- and healthcare management at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Her primary fields of research are integrated care management, digital health management, innovative forms of care, patient-centered medicine and non-market strategies in healthcare.
Christoph Rasche is the Chair of Professional & Corporate Services at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Professor Rasche teaches strategic and general management in national and international MBA programs with a special focus on the healthcare and hospital industry. His main research areas are strategic and general management in the healthcare & hospital sector, which is currently experiencing an era of professional value creation based on a strong management and leadership focus.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Service Design Practices for Healthcare Innovation
Book Subtitle: Paradigms, Principles, Prospects
Editors: Mario A. Pfannstiel, Nataliia Brehmer, Christoph Rasche
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87273-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87272-4Published: 20 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87275-5Published: 21 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87273-1Published: 19 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 547
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 124 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Care Management, Health Economics, Public Health, Services