Wise wearables : a model framework for building innovation ecosystems for disruptive technologies in healthcare

• Autor(a) principal: Wolde, Brock Taylor de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/39139
• topic: Healthcare; Digital transformation; Health prevention and maintenance; Wearables; Framework; Wise wearables; Innovation; Ecosystem; Population health; Individual health; Disruptive health technologies; Adoption; Cuidados de saúde; Transformação digital; Prevenção e manutenção da saúde; Artigos de desgaste; Estrutura; Inovação; Ecossistema; Saúde populacional; Saúde individual; Tecnologias de saúde disruptivas; Adopção; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

Macroenvironmental factors such as aging societies, with longer lifespans and increased prevalence of co-morbidities are increasing spend and strain on the healthcare system. If these trends continue unchecked, health systems will face serious repercussions to access to and quality of healthcare. To combat macroenvironmental trends, different health technology experts from WHO. WEF, and EU are calling for a shift in health culture from diagnose and treatment to prevention and health maintenance. One technology that potentially holds the key to this cultural shift is the cluster of wearable technologies. The aim of this study was to depart from the acknowledgement that recording of biometric data, or other functionalities, via wearables can aid users and populations in achieving disease prevention and health promotion, and if so, to formulate a model to guide the orchestration of such a technology into the healthcare system. Both the hypothesis of the potential efficacy of wearables and the validity of a formulated framework (Wise Wearables) was explored with subject matter experts in qualitative interviews. The conclusions from this work are that wearable technology has the potential to impact disease prevention and health management if there is alignment and collaboration between stakeholders, appropriate mechanisms utilized, and key adoption approaches taken. The Wise Wearables framework was also subsequently refined because of the interviews. Disruptive innovation needs to take place not only regarding wearable technology, but also with members of its ecosystem. The proposed Wise Wearable framework provides a conceptual roadmap on bringing digital health technologies from ideation to reality.