Epital Health – a disruptive and research based approach to service transformation of health care systems

Abstract

Introduction: Many telehealth projects and initiatives loose their pace when facing the barriers of traditional healthcare organization. During the latest years, the concept of disruptive innovation has received increased attention as a method to overcome barriers by introducing new whole system designs as alternative to existing systems. Aims and Objectives: The Epital Health (EH) project is a disruptive implementation aimed at redesigning the healthcare system within chronic conditions, based on co-creation and combined operation, development and research. It demonstrates how a citizen centered service transformation can take place resulting in provision of healthcare and secondary prevention of co-morbidities, in a personalized and tailored environment. EH uses a disruptive approach to overcome organizational barriers and replace them by telehealth and -care services, to be controlled by the informed and active citizen in true collaboration with the health professionals. The Innova)