How Should Organizations Promote Equitable Distribution of Benefits from Technological Innovation in Health Care?
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Technological innovations typically benefit those who have good access to and an understanding of the underlying technologies. As such, technology-centered health care innovations are likely to preferentially benefit users of privileged socioeconomic backgrounds. Which policies and strategies should health care organizations adopt to promote equitable distribution of the benefits from technological innovations? In this essay, we draw on two important concepts-co-creation (the joint creation of value by multiple parties such as a company and its customers) and digitalization (the application of new digital technologies and the ensuing changes in sociotechnical structures and relationships)-and propose a set of policies and strategies that health care organizations could adopt to ensure that benefits from technological innovations are more equitably distributed among all target populations, including resource-poor communities and individuals.
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OHCs offer a mechanism for value cocreation among stakeholders with minimal time and cost restriction.
“In essence, communication extension brings the patients into focus, and OHCs offer a mechanism for value cocreation among stakeholders with minimal time and cost restriction [17,19,46,66-75].”
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- Authors
- Nambisan, S., & Nambisan, P.
- Affiliations
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (US)
- Venue
- AMA Journal of Ethics
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2017-11-01
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1106-1115
- ISSN
- 1937-7010 (ISSN-L)
- 2376-6980
- OpenAlex
- W2766021669
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3
- FWCI
- 1.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The AMA Journal of Ethic (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Business and International Management › Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Keywords
- equitable benefit sharing, health equity, co-creation, digitalization, health care organization, resource-poor communities, socioeconomic disparities, health policy, socio-technical change
- MeSH terms
- Diffusion of Innovation, Health Resources, Health Services Accessibility, Humans, Organizations, Residence Characteristics, Social Class, Social Justice, Technology Transfer, Biomedical Technology, Policy, Inventions
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