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Stakeholder Collaboration: Developing Foresight and Insight in Health and Medicine

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Collaboration: To work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor.

eHealth: The use of information and communication technology (ICT), such as computers, mobile phones, communications satellite, patient monitors, etc., for health services and information. Telecare, Health 2.0, online doctors/nurses, and virtual patients all participate.

Foresight: The ability to judge correctly what is going to happen in the future and plan your actions based on this knowledge (Cambridge dictionary). In practice, it is a set of coherent capabilities of an organization to collect and collaboratively interpret changes in their environment (i.e., scanning), document and assess the impacts of plausible futures based on those changes (i.e., foresighting), and taking actions to use that insight to help it achieve competitive advantage (reconfiguring).

mHealth: A subsegment of eHealth, mHealth is an abbreviation for mobile health, a term used for the practice of...

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Fleisher, C.S., Hursky, R. (2022). Stakeholder Collaboration: Developing Foresight and Insight in Health and Medicine. In: Harris, P., Bitonti, A., Fleisher, C.S., Binderkrantz, A.S. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44556-0_219

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