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There are significant challenges in global healthcare. Some countries have abundant services, but are stuck with a rather nimble and expensive system that focuses on incremental innovations. Other geographies are still in need of basic tools, infrastructure and require completely different, inexpensive, and with that more disruptive solutions to satisfy their healthcare needs.
Next-Generation Healthcare systems will need to focus on prevention/early detection and pro-active therapy will employ exponential technologies. This likely will lead to significant changes in the way we experience, think about, and deliver healthcare. A digitally empowered patient will play a much more important role.
This article will help to set the stage for a more methodological approach to health innovation that is not based on incremental thinking, but rather on defining a future-oriented purpose with a goal to eliminate—or at least significantly reduce—global health delivery inequalities by developing intelligent, data based, inexpensive, and portable devices and tools plus embed them into different care and monitoring environments (e.g., Home instead of Practice/Hospital). Important in that context is to also rethink the current health business models that are based on reimbursing and paying for services of patients rather than on preventing people from becoming patients.
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Friebe, M. (2022). From SICKCARE to HEALTHCARE to HEALTH. In: Friebe, M. (eds) Novel Innovation Design for the Future of Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08191-0_3
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