Controversies in Healthcare Innovation

Thomas Hoholm is Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School and Senior Researcher at Akershus University Hospital, Norway. With a background in organization theory and industrial networks, his research focusses on innovation processes. Antonella La Rocca is Research Fellow at Akershus University Hospital and Visiting Research Fellow at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway.  Her research interests are in innovation, entrepreneurship and B2B Marketing. Margunn Aanestad is Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. She has researched the introduction of information and communication technologies in healthcare from an information infrastructure perspective.  

1. Introduction: Controversies in Healthcare Innovation - Service, Technology and Organization; Hoholm, La Rocca, Aanestad.- Part I. Translation of Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities.-  2. A new space for patients - How space enters innovation translation processes; Gorli, Mengis and Liberati.- 3. One table - several practices:  Material controversies in the Hybrid Operating Room; Lindberg and Walter.- 4. Contradictions as opportunities for innovation in the case of TAVI; Mørk, Masovic, Greig, Nicolini and Hanseth.- Part II. Technology-enabled healthcare innovations.- 5. Dealing with tensions in technology-enabled healthcare innovation: two cases from the Norwegian Healthcare Sector; Grisot, Vassilakopoulou and Aanestad.- 6. An Organization-as-Platform and a Strategy-as-Practice for an Electronically Supported Booking Service in Healthcare; Resca.- Part III. Policy Interventions in Innovating Healthcare.- 7. Reconfiguring the relation between primary and secondary healthcare through policy instruments; Araujo, La Rocca and Hoholm.- 8. A Controversy of Interpretation: Emergent Agencies in Repurposing Aker Local Hospital; Hungnes and Hvidsten.- 9. More with Less: Sensemaking of Controversies in Youth Care Reforms; von Raesfeld and van der Helm.- Part IV. Healthcare Innovations Beyond the Local Context.- 10. Networked Innovation in healthcare: A Literature review and Research Agenda on the Interplay of Inner and Outer Contexts of Innovation; La Rocca.- 11. The Role of Controversy in medical innovation and implementation processes; Mikhailova and Olsen.- 12. Increase development and decrease use! innovation Controversies caused by antimicrobial resistance; Waluszewski, Baraldi and Ciabuschi.- 13. Developing Organizational Ambidexterity? Enabling Service Innovation in a Hospital Setting; Hoholm, Strønen, Kværner and Støme.