Digital Transformation and Disruption of the Health Care Sector: Internet-Based Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital innovation, introduced across many industries, is a strong force of transformation. Some industries have seen faster transformation, whereas the health care sector only recently came into focus. A context where digital corporations move into health care, payers strive to keep rising costs at bay, and longer-living patients desire continuously improved quality of care points to a digital and value-based transformation with drastic implications for the health care sector.

Objective

We tried to operationalize the discussion within the health care sector around digital and disruptive innovation to identify what type of technological enablers, business models, and value networks seem to be emerging from different groups of innovators with respect to their digit

SUBMITTER: Herrmann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5893888 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature