Title :
Personal Health Systems and Value Creation Mechanisms in Occupational Health Care
Author_Institution :
Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Helsinki
Abstract :
Personal health systems are believed to have great business potential among citizens, but they might reach also an important market in occupational health care. However, in reaching the occupational health care market, it is important to understand the value creation and value configuration mechanisms of this particular market. This paper also claims that in such a business-to-business market service integrators are needed to compose for the various customers specific offerings combing a tailored variety of products and services to suit their specific needs.
Keywords :
customer services; health care; occupational health; value engineering; business-to-business market service integrators; customer perspective; occupational health care market; personal health systems; value configuration mechanisms; value creation; Control systems; Costs; Diseases; Inspection; Insurance; Occupational health; Pensions; Production facilities; Public healthcare; Technological innovation; Attitude to Health; Finland; Health Promotion; Occupational Health; Personal Health Services; Social Values; Workplace;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007. EMBS 2007. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lyon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0787-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353686
