The Conceptualization of Value in the Value Proposition of New Health Technologies Comment on "Providing Value to New Health Technology: The Early Contribution of Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Regulatory Agencies"

Abstract

Lehoux et al provide a highly valid contribution in conceptualizing value in value propositions for new health technologies and developing an analytic framework that illustrates the interplay between health innovation supply-side logic (the logic of emergence) and demand-side logic (embedding in the healthcare system). This commentary brings forth several considerations on this article. First, a detailed stakeholder analysis provides the necessary premonition of potential hurdles in the development, implementation and dissemination of a new technology. This can be achieved by categorizing potential stakeholder groups on the basis of the potential impact of future technology. Secondly, the conceptualization of value in value propositions of new technologies should not only embrace business/economic and clinical values but also ethical, professional and cultural values, as well as factoring in the notion of usability and acceptance of new technology. As a final note, the commentary emphasises the point that technology should facilitate delivery of care without negatively affecting doctor-patient communications, physical examination skills, and development of clinical knowledge.

Ethics of care in technology‐mediated healthcare practices: A scoping review

“…To answer our research question of how ethics of care informs empirical research on technology-mediated healthcare practice, we assessed and analysed the articles according to [1] how and when ethics of care was introduced in the articles, [2] the aim(s) of using ethics of care, and [3] how care ethics contributed to the articles' findings.…”

“…The implementation of technologies in healthcare practices is increasing and becoming progressively diverse. When new technologies are introduced, health professionals' long-standing relationship-based and traditional cultures of caring ethics may be affected, transformed or challenged, leading to new ethical dilemmas [1,2]. With potentially changing healthcare practices, services and policies, we want to understand how theories of ethics of care inform empirical research on technology-mediated healthcare.…”