Health entrepreneurship : a guide / Carrie Rich, Knox Singleton, Mark Vernooij, Seema Wadhwa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rich, Carrie R., author.

Singleton, Knox, author.

Vernooij, Mark, author.

Wadhwa, Seema S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health services administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

The potential for health professionals to learn and practice the process of entrepreneurship to improve the quality of health care and services is enormous and untapped. Health professionals witness first-hand where changes to the health system should be made and where opportunities for improvement arise, yet they are seldom associated with entrepreneurship. Incorporating the authors' experiences leading health systems, working on the front line and supporting corporations, NGOs and accelerators that target health entrepreneurship, this book explores: The why, what and how of entrepreneurship - and intrapreneurship - for health professionals. Resources to encourage innovation by guiding the reader through an idea development process specific to the experience and working environment of health professionals. The areas of need, developing ideas and prototype solutions, as well as implementing, scaling and pitching entrepreneurial ideas. An accessible and applied guide, Health Entrepreneurship introduces ideas about the practical delivery and implementation of entrepreneurial ideas, allowing readers to affect necessary and positive change.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Chapter 1: Introduction to entrepreneurship

Chapter 2: Innovation Flow

Introduction to the Innovation Flow

The Innovation Flow in health care

Challenge: topic, team and environment

Chapter 3: Sensing: explore the problem

Introduction to Sensing

Sensing is disciplined

The Sensing mind-sets

Entrepreneurship in action: the Aravind Eye Hospitals and Clinics

Challenge: start Sensing

Chapter 4: Visioning

Introduction to Visioning

The Visioning mind-sets

Challenge: start Visioning

Chapter 5: Prototyping

Introduction to Prototyping

Prototyping is not market research

Prototyping support

The Prototyping mind-sets

Entrepreneurship in action: SickKids

Challenge: start Prototyping

Chapter 6: Scaling

Introduction to Scaling

The rules of emergence (van Asseldonk et al., 2014)

The structure of networks (Turrell et al., 2014)

The energy of waves (Turrell et al., 2014)

The Scaling mind-sets

Challenge: start designing for Scale

Chapter 7: Creating Action

Introduction to Creating Action

Challenge: start Creating Action

Chapter 8: Conclusion: go get 'em!

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-12213-8

1-351-34793-4

1-351-34794-2

9781315122137

OCLC:

1099832172