Brilliant Business Models in Healthcare Get Inspired to Cure Healthc
This exciting resource examines pioneering, successful business models in healthcare services, emphasizing bold and innovative entrepreneurship in creating care delivery that is accessible, affordable, and effective. Expert contributors supply fascinating
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rilliant Business Models in Healthcare Get Inspired to Cure Healthcare
Brilliant Business Models in Healthcare
Jeroen Kemperman • Jeroen Geelhoed Jennifer op ‘t Hoog Editors
Brilliant Business Models in Healthcare Get Inspired to Cure Healthcare
Editors Jeroen Kemperman Zilveren Kruis, Achmea Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jeroen Geelhoed &samhoud Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jennifer op ‘t Hoog Achmea Tilburg, The Netherlands
ISBN 978-3-319-26439-4 ISBN 978-3-319-26440-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26440-0
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Foreword
One of the greatest challenges in our time is to make and keep qualitatively good healthcare affordable, transparent, and accessible to as many people as possible. This issue goes further than merely selecting the best possible healthcare system. It is a global puzzle independent of the manner in which countries have organized healthcare and the financing thereof. Healthcare costs are increasingly taking a bigger portion of domestic income via taxes, insurance policies, and direct payments. And still, the percentage of countries having qualitatively good care available for all citizens does not exceed 5 %. The solutions that are currently being found to solve the problems of one stakeholder are often implemented at the expense of another stakeholder. Lower healthcare costs only seem achievable either by making cuts in the healthcare treatments which are funded or by making healthcare available to fewer people. But this takes us only further away from the ambition of good healthcare for all. More healthcare for more people at lower costs demands pioneering organizations. That brings us to the question: Do cases of brilliant business models in healthcare exist in
