Analysis of Economic and Business Factors Influencing Disruptive Innovation in Telehealth

Análisis de factores económicos y empresariales que influyen la Innovación Disruptiva en Telesalud

Objective. Analysis of economic and business factors influencing disruption innovation in healthcare taking as a reference Telehealth systems and technologies. Methods. Analysis of economic and business decision factors that influence the adoption of new technologies are qualitatively analyzed using as a case example Telehealth systems. Results. Main factors for the adoption of new technologies in healthcare are identified and analyzed. Factors include new technology adoption cost, usability, perceived value, competitive systems, old systems competitive cost and performance, and type of users, between others.

1. Ministerio de Proteccion Social, República de Colombia.. Hacia un Plan País en Telesalud. Junio 4 del 2009
2. Mushkin, S. “Hacia una definición de la economía de la salud”, Lecturas de Economía No. 51. Diciembre de 1999
3. Edwards, R. T.. Paradigms and Research Programmes: is it time to move from health care economics to health economics? Health Economics. 2001, 10: 635-649
4. Williams, A. Health economics: the cheerful face of the dismal science? In Health and Economics, Williams A (ed.). Macmillan Press: Basingstoke, 1987; 1–11.
5. Porter, M. E. What is Value in Healthcare? N Engl J Med 2010; 363: 2477-2481
6. Cooper R., and Jones, A. Supply and Demand in Health-Care Markets, Section 16.1 from the book Theory and Applications of Economics, 2012
7. Menachemi N., et al. Factors Affecting the Adoption of Telemedicine—A Multiple Adopter Perspective. Journal of Medical Systems. 2004, Vol. 28, No. 6
8. Henry Kaiser Family Foundation Snapshots: How Changes in Medical Technology Affect Health Care Costs. March 2, 2007. Obtained from http://kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/ snapshots-how-changes-in-medical-technology-affect/
9. Cutler, D. M. and McClellan, M. “Is Technological Change in Medicine Worth It?” Health Affairs 20(5) (September/October 2001): 11-29.
10. Espinosa K, Restrepo j, y Rodríguez S. Lecturas de Economía, 59 (julio-diciembre, 2003), pp. 7-53. Producción académica en Economía de la Salud en Colombia, 1980-2002.
11. Vo A., et. al. Benefits of Telemedicine in Remote Communities & Use of Mobile and Wireless Platforms in Healthcare. UTMB Telemedicine and Center for Telehealth Research and Policy. n/d.
12. Fong B, et al. Telemedicine Technologies: Information Technologies in Medicine and Telehealth. Wiley, 2010.
13. Kannisto K. A., et al. Use of Mobile Phone Text Message Reminders in Health Care Services: A Narrative Literature Review. J Med Internet Res. 2014 Oct; 16(10): e222.
14. Hall A., et al. Mobile Text Messaging for Health: A Systematic Review of Reviews. Annu Rev Public Health. 2015, Mar 18; 36: 393–415.
15. Augested K. M. and Lindsetmo, R. O. Overcoming Distance: Video-Conferencing as a Clinical and Educational Tool Among Surgeons. World J Surg. 2009, Jul; 33(7): 1356–1365.
16. Adner R. and Kapoor R. Right Tech, Wrong Time. Harvard Business Review. November, 2016
17. Anthony, Scott D.; Johnson, Mark W.; Sinfield, Joseph V.; Altman, Elizabeth J.. Innovator’s Guide to Growth - Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work. Harvard Business School Press, 2008.
18. Christensen, Clayton M.; Raynor, Michael E. The innovator´s solution – Creating and Sustaining Sucessful Growth. Hardvard Business Review Press. 2003.
19. Christensen, Clayton M; Anthony, Scott D.; Roth, Erick A. Seeing what´s next – Using the theories of disruptive innovation to predict industry change. Harvard Business School Press. 2004.
20. Christensen, Clayton M; Grossman, Jerome H.; Hwang, Jason. The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care. McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition, 2009.
21. Previser. https://www.facebook.com/previserinstitucional/
22. https://www.1doc3.com/