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Supporting the Viability of E-Health Services with Pattern-Based Business Model Design

The Case of an E-Mental Health App for Maternal Depression

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Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems (WIS 2016)

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Designing viable business models for e-health services is not trivial as people in charge of business model design often lack the respective knowledge and experience. E-health business model design patterns should support inexperienced business model designers as they document existing business model logics of the e-health domain for reuse. This paper aims at understanding how exactly a pattern-based business model design supports the viability of e-health business models by applying the e-health business model design patterns to a specific e-health service – an e-mental health app for maternal depression. A focus group workshop reveals that these design patterns sensitize the participants to the viability aspects of the business model and thereby help to enhance its viability.

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  2. University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

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    Reima Suomi

  4. Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

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  5. Åbo Academi University, Turku, Finland

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  6. Åbo Academi University, Turku, Finland

    Ming Zhan

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Sprenger, M. (2016). Supporting the Viability of E-Health Services with Pattern-Based Business Model Design. In: Li, H., Nykänen, P., Suomi, R., Wickramasinghe, N., Widén, G., Zhan, M. (eds) Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems. WIS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 636. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44672-1_14

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