Abstract
Dear authors and readers,
Healthcare systems are facing a new normality. Disruptive innovation is coming as quick as ever. Artificial intelligence. Robots. Precision medicine. And much more.
Financial struggles are common to all countries, even the richest.
In many places health professionals are experiencing a loss in status and role. And there is a widespread shortage of doctors in many developed and developing countries.
New business models are emerging and diffusing. Low cost or low price healthcare. Focused hospitals. Medical tourism.
In this context, it seems we need new paradigms to face the new normality. Henceforth, there is an enormous space to develop new influential research. Some hints. We need to look at health sector rather than just to systems. Relationship between public and private players is evolving in different directions. Coopetition is pairing competition. Further, industry and health authorities/providers relationships are under deep transformation. What is the sense of partnership here? What is the ground to cooperate?
Patient are central as ever. How do we shift from compliance to concordance? How we develop co-creation and co-production of services?
Chronic care models are evolving in population health management. But what are the outcomes? And exactly … what are we doing?
Hospitals boast to be patient centered. It is a marketing action? Or there are real transformation going on? Which results? Impact on outcomes?
Task shifting and skill mix have been in the agenda for the last 20 years. Yet there is little research on the matter. There is anyone out there willing to help us to understand what’s on?
These are only few areas of a much wider space for research.
And above all, there are still the same two questions: how and which leadership is vital for this changing times, and how management practices are evolving.
Much to investigate. Lots of interesting files and research questions.
HSMR is ready to become the forum for the debate on this new normality and all its implications.
The floor is now yours.
All the best