Intelligent Health Policy

Offers a general overview of intelligence in health policy, health care organizations and health services Analyses the implications of knowledge management and decision-making procedures for intelligent health policies and governance Provides a guide for understanding, developing, and reforming health policy and health services

Petri Virtanen is currently Project Director at the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra and Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Lapland, Tampere and Helsinki. Previously he was Professor of Administrative Science at the University of Tampere and Head of Unit at the Ministry of Finance.  Virtanen-s research interests cover public policy, organizational intelligence, disruptive technologies, social and health care services, and service-dominant -logic. Moreover, he has long experience (over 15 years) of leading scientific teams.  Jari Stenvall is a professor of administrative sciences at the University of Tampere, School of Management. His areas of research have included the reform and evaluation of public administration, regional development, change management, development operations and service innovations, higher education research, and the utilisation of information technology in organisations. His scientific publications include 42 monographs, 10 edited works, and more than fifty scientific articles in referenced journals or compilations. He is also visiting professor at the University of Glasgow.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Systemic governance challenges and wellbeing.- Chapter 3: Intelligence in public policy.- Chapter 4: Knowledge management and the new configurations of health markets.- Chapter 5: Intelligent healthcare organizations and patient-dominant logic in the new service space.- Chapter 6: Leadership and human resource management.- Chapter 7: Intelligent evaluation and performance measurement in public health policy and public service systems.- Chapter 8: The fundaments of intelligence in the future health policy.