Springer Series in Healthcare Management and Innovation – serie

This book offers a data-driven analysis of aging, exploring demographic trends and their impact on decision-making in healthcare. It explores the clinical, economic and environmental factors influencing multimorbidity, frailty, and disability to stratify disease progression and prognosis for a more personalized approach to care. The book also examines behavioral and psychological determinants, outlining trajectories for active and healthy aging. It addresses the challenges and opportunities of the Silver Economy, focusing on work, participation, retirement, and welfare strategies that adapt to an aging population. Finally, the book advocates for mainstreaming aging into health policy, proposing innovative institutional mechanisms for more sustainable, future-oriented healthcaresystems.Featuring case studies, practical strategies and insights, and policy frameworks to improve quality of life and demands of tomorrow’s aging population, this book is essential reading for professional and practitioners as well as researchers, scholars, academics and policy makers in healthcare, public policy, and economics.

This open access book offers unique insights into organizational management in healthcare. It helps healthcare professionals understand how the unique imprints of healthcare organizations shape their identity drawing from practical experiences and evidence-based practices to promote positive change in the industry. The book also addresses the importance of adaptability in health systems in creating dynamic and resilient organizational structures. In this way, it conveys a sense of depth, understanding, and holistic mark of healthcare organizations’ dedication to elevating organizational success. Providing readers with actionable insights and strategies to navigate complex organizational dynamics, this book empowers healthcare leaders, practitioners, and policymakers to harness the power of insights and imprints to help healthcare systems navigate challenges, foster innovation, and deliver high-quality, patient-centered healthcare.

This book provides medical technology entrepreneurs and their investors with a decision-making methodology based on the scientific approach that maximizes their chances of success. It enriches the understanding of valuation for medical startups, proposing an approach that moves the focus from the sophistication of the forecasting and financial methodologies to the quantitative importance of high-quality business assumptions and the economic impact of each critical business decision. It also provides a complete set of visual, organized, and compelling mental maps tailored to the business of medical technology innovation; maps that visualize and link the medical venture’s decision-making and prediction problems. Their use minimizes the probability of overlooking critical decision problems on the path to successful execution while connecting them through a sequential and hierarchical framework. Finally, the book provides practical, real-life examples of how the scientific approach to decision-making can be used in medical technology startups outside the clinical trial area. The reader is left with various sets of valuable and practical tools that can be individually applied.