Innovations for Healthcare and Wellbeing: Digital Technologies, Ecosystems and Entrepreneurship

Various socio-demographic, medical, technological, and managerial trends determine the emergence and development of the concept of the “Smart Hospital”, as well as the development and implementation of appropriate complex architectural models in the management practice of medical organizations. In turn, such medical organizations require an innovative health care ecosystem to provide medically and economically efficient healthcare services.

This book examines various approaches to the modern healthcare system to provide an effective internal environment for the medical organization as well as an effective external environment for better interaction with all stakeholders of the greater healthcare system. It addresses the challenges of digital technology adoption in specialized areas (e.g., cardiology, surgery, neonatology, etc.) and of the dissemination of knowledge, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurial initiatives as well as communication between stakeholders. It then explores the development of the Smart Hospital by analyzing the internal architecture of medical organizations, key factors of their transformation, architecture of IT and digital technologies and data-driven management. Finally, this book explores the ways in which entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial leadership promote innovation and well-being in different organizational contexts, with special emphasis on human resource management, intellectual capital, and abusive leadership of public, social, and business sector contexts.

Evgeny Schlyakhto is General Director of the V.A. Almazov National Medical Research Center at Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia).

Igor Ilin is Director of the Graduate School of Business Engineering at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (Russia). He is the leader of research in enterprise architecture, business engineering, digital transformation of companies, industries, and regions.

Tessaleno Campos Devezas is Associate Professor with habilitation at Atlantica Instituto Universitario (Portugal). He is known for his contributions to the long waves theory in socioeconomic development, technological evolution, energy systems, materials engineering as well as world systems analysis. His main research interests embrace technological forecasting, future studies, socioeconomic long waves, evolutionary economics, technological evolution, innovation theory and dynamics, complex adaptive systems, and new materials.

 João Carlos Correia Leitão is Associate Professor with habilitation and Director of the UBI Executive Business School at the University of Beira Interior (UBI) (Portugal). He is a prolific author and series editor of the Springer book series Studies in Entrepreneurship, Structural Change, and Industrial Dynamics. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several international journals such as The International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing (Springer), Discover Sustainability (Springer), and International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing (Inderscience). His main research interests include entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainable development.

Serena Cubico is Associate Professor of Management at Department of Business Administration, University of Verona (Italy). Her main research areas are: entrepreneurship (youth and female, education, start-up), organizational behavior in SMEs, family business, entrepreneurial competencies and potential (identification, assessment, measurement).