ultimately of other patients' therapy. We analyze innovations of producers, healthcare professionals, patients, and relatives in … ratings and found that apps designed by patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals are rated significantly better by … innovative contributions of intermediate and end users that have been sold and evaluated within the healthcare sector. Several …

. Healthcare companies should establish measures to support innovative patients and to systematically integrate them into their …Prior research has shown that some patients and caregivers such as relatives are innovating in relation to their unmet … and subsequently commercialized. We analyze cases of patients and their caregivers becoming user entrepreneurs - persons …

We analyse - theoretically and empirically - the effect of hospital mergers on waiting times in healthcare markets … where prices are fixed. Using a spatial modelling framework where patients choose provider based on travelling distance and … long panel of data on hospital mergers in the English NHS, where we find that the effects of a merger on waiting times …

Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients … hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and Mexico. We develop a continuum-of-care conceptual framework based on prior …-discharge medical and social care services. There are three main sources of prolonged stays: (i) lack of appropriate primary healthcare …