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Barriers and Strategies for Scaling Innovative Solutions in Health Care

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European countries are facing an increasing challenge of funding the public health care programs. In other industries, technology and innovation have provided improvements in efficiency and effectiveness that have reduced costs and improved productivity. Similar cost reductions and productivity gains have long eluded the industry of public health care. New generations of technologies are promising to bring those gains to the public health care sector in the form of innovative solutions built on new generations of information technology. However, several barriers remain that prevent these innovative solutions from scaling across the European health care system. These barriers are examined and strategies to circumvent them are proposed to aid developing scaling strategies.

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  1. Living Labs Global, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Jakob Rasmussen

  2. Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden

    Mats Löfdahl

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  1. Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden

    Samuel A. Fricker

  2. Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Christoph Thümmler

  3. Eurescom GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany

    Anastasius Gavras

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Rasmussen, J., Löfdahl, M. (2015). Barriers and Strategies for Scaling Innovative Solutions in Health Care. In: Fricker, S., Thümmler, C., Gavras, A. (eds) Requirements Engineering for Digital Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09798-5_9

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