Changing the Rules of the Game in Healthcare Through Service Design

• Innovation in healthcare requires changing the institutional arrangements or whatare often referred to as “the rules of the game.” Such a change demands that actorsdo institutional work—intentionally creating, disrupting, and maintaining theentrenched ways of operating within the system. This chapter explores how servicedesign practices contribute to changing the rules of the game in healthcare byintegrating research on service design and institutional work. Based on a literaturereview, five characteristics of service design practices—multidisciplinary, experiential, participatory, experimental, and reflective—are highlighted and linkedto the antecedents of institutional work. Illustrative examples of service designprojects from Experio Lab, an embedded service design group in the Swedishhealthcare system, are used to contextualize the findings. In doing so, this chapterprovides a clear rationale for how service design practices enable innovation inhealthcare and offer insights for healthcare practitioners interested in workingtoward institutional change through service design.

Ämnesord

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Hälsovetenskap -- Hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisation, hälsopolitik och hälsoekonomi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Health Sciences -- Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)

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service design

innovation

healthcare

institutional theory

institutions

Business Administration

Företagsekonomi

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