Innovations in Healthcare and Wellbeing: A Focus on Actors and Collaborations at the Boundaries

Abstract

The healthcare ecosystem faces complex and multiple challenges: increase in chronic diseases, population ageing, emergence of new issues (health promotion, ageing disability, social isolation, etc.), increase in social and territorial health inequalities, failing to seek medical treatment, increase in the cost of certain treatments, expectations for personalized approaches to care, etc., as well as the obvious financial constraints on the healthcare ecosystem... We observe a large spectrum of innovative responses to these challenges: technological, product and service innovations, organizational and managerial innovations (Damanpour, Aravind,