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Service Design Practices for Healthcare Innovation

Paradigms, Principles, Prospects

  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Service Design Within a Multiplicity Logics in Health Care

    • Felicia Nilsson, Shivani Prakash, Josina Vink
    Pages 1-21
  3. When the Patient Innovates. Emerging Practices in Service Ecosystems

    • Stefano Maffei, Massimo Bianchini, Beatrice Villari
    Pages 59-76
  4. Crossing Asymmetries in Multistakeholder Service Design in Integrated Care

    • Anna Salmi, Outi Ahonen, Päivi Pöyry-Lassila
    Pages 133-156
  5. The e-Report System: Redesigning the Reporting in Turkish Healthcare Services

    • ÇaÄŸdaÅŸ Erkan Akyürek, Şükrü Anıl Toygar, Elif Erbay
    Pages 157-169
  6. Design Thinking as Catalyst for a Hospital Operation Centre

    • Christophe Vetterli, Raphael Roth
    Pages 225-234
  7. Healthcare Design Practice for Humanizing the Patient Journey

    • Cecilia Xi Wang, Craig M. Vogel, Shaun A. Wahab
    Pages 253-267
  8. While-U-Wait: A Service-Based Solution for Emergency Room Overcrowding

    • Joshua O. Eniwumide, Patrick O. Akomolafe, Christoph Rasche
    Pages 269-294
  9. RETRACTED CHAPTER: Use of Causal Loop Diagrams to Improve Service Processes

    • Bertil Lindenfalk, Andrea Resmini, Konstantin Weiss, Wilian Molinari
    Pages 295-295
  10. Physical Activity Based on M-Health Tools: Design a New Strategy for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases

    • Gianluca Antonucci, Gabriele Palozzi, Francesco Ranalli, Michelina Venditti
    Pages 337-362
  11. Seven Practices for Innovation in Healthcare Products

    • Patricia E. Alafaireet, Chintan Desai, Howard L. Houghton
    Pages 363-380
  12. Design of Robotic Care: Ethical Implications of a Multi-actor Perspective

    • Martina ÄŒaić, Stefan Holmlid, Dominik Mahr, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder
    Pages 381-398

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

  • Department of Healthcare Management, Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Neu-Ulm, Germany

    Mario A. Pfannstiel

  • Management, Professional Services and Sport Economics, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Nataliia Brehmer

  • 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

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