Since the early 1990s, telemedicine, or the use of information technology to support the delivery of health care from a distance, has increasingly gained the support of clinicians, administrators and policymakers across industrialised countries. However, the "theory of use" behind...

Hospital networks are an emerging organizational form designed to face the new challenges of public health systems. Although the benefits introduced by network models in terms of rationalization of resources are known, evidence about stakeholders’ perspectives on hospital network performance...

There is a growing literature examining the involvement of citizens in health policymaking. While determining what form such involvement should take and who should participate is of particular interest to policymakers and researchers, the current ontological understanding of what a citizen is...

Academic spin-offs often lack business expertise, face uncertainties regarding their innovation and their markets, and do not have a clear idea of how their product will create value. In spite of this vagueness, academic entrepreneurs must articulate a business model and rapidly establish...