Our analysis of seven companies from the German medical engineering industryrevealed that product-service-systems play a central role in value creation. Customer solutionsare highly individual and often consist of a medical product and corresponding servicesspanning the complete product life...

Germany is introducing a nation-wide health telematics infrastructure that enables various electronic health services (EHS). Little is known about the burdens and drivers for potential adoption of these innovations. Based on a quantitative study among German physicians participating in pilot...

Service oriented device architecture (SODA) is a promising approach for enabling a continuous IT support of medical processes in hospitals. However, there is a lack of specific design patterns for realizing the concept in an effective and efficient way. This paper addresses this research gap by...

Hybride Wertschöpfung, verstanden als Bündelung von Produkt,Dienstleistung und Software zu einer kundenindividuellen Gesamtlösung, wird häufigals Erfolgsformel zur Erschließung neuer Geschäftsfelder gesehen. Wie aber „macht“man hybride Wertschöpfung? Wie können die einzelnen Elemente...

E-health basically comprises health services and informationdelivered or enhanced through the Internetand related technologies (Eysenbach, 2001). The futurehealthcare system and its services, enabling e-health, arebased on the communication between all informationsystems of all participants of...

Der mobile Gesundheitscoach ist ein Produkt-Dienstleistungsbündel (persönliche und computervermittelte Dienstleistungen, Software, Hardware) zur Unterstützung von gesundheitsorientierten Bewegungsprogrammen. Im Span-nungsfeld zwischen hochpreisiger persönlicher Beratung und kostengünstigen,...

"Describes the rationale for introducing incentives tied to achievement of specific health-related targets, and provides guidance about designing, implementing, and evaluating programs that provide incentives to health care providers and patients. Presents case studies that focus on recent uses...