Personal Health Systems and Value Creation Mechanisms in Occupational Health Care

Author

Auvinen, A.-M.

Author_Institution

Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Helsinki

fYear

2007

fDate

22-26 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

5882

Lastpage

5885

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007. EMBS 2007. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0787-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353686

Filename

4353686