From Concept to Reality: Innovating Healthcare in Emerging Economies

Healthcare service delivery in emerging economies comes with great contradictions. This book explores recent innovations in healthcare from a global and Indian perspective. Emphasizing the importance of Lean healthcare and innovation, it presents low-cost, high-volume solutions that improve access to care. Providing concrete examples of innovations present in healthcare, the book presents new concepts, methods, and tools for advancing processes and operational flow. It includes case studies of actual results in healthcare innovation from different continents that highlight emerging global trends in healthcare system innovation. In this book, the reader gets a holistic operations perspective on developing tailored and affordable service delivery models for Emerging Economies. It describes how to organize resources and flows so that given targets, such as cost, clinical quality, and patient experience, can be achieved with available resources. It also covers nontraditional ecosystems of innovation that move outside of expected technological innovations, such as innovations in social persuasion, rural health delivery, and the planning.