TY - JOUR A1 - Gleiss, Alexander A1 - Kohlhagen, Marco A1 - Pousttchi, Key T1 - An apple a day BT - how the platform economy impacts value creation in the healthcare market JF - Electronic markets : EM ; the international journal of electronic commerce and business media N2 - The healthcare industry has been slow to adopt new technologies and practices. However, digital and data-enabled innovations diffuse the market, and the COVID-19 pandemic has recently emphasized the necessity of a fundamental digital transformation. Available research indicates the relevance of digital platforms in this process but has not studied their economic impact to date. In view of this research gap and the social and economic relevance of healthcare, we explore how digital platforms might affect value creation in this market with a particular focus on Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft (GAFAM). We rely on value network analyses to examine how GAFAM platforms introduce new value-creating roles and mechanisms in healthcare through their manifold products and services. Hereupon, we examine the GAFAM-impact on healthcare by scrutinizing the facilitators, activities, and effects. Our analyses show how GAFAM platforms multifacetedly untie conventional relationships and transform value creation structures in the healthcare market. KW - Digital platforms KW - Platform economy KW - Healthcare market KW - Digital health KW - GAFAM KW - Value network analysis Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-021-00467-2 SN - 1019-6781 SN - 1422-8890 VL - 31 IS - 4 SP - 849 EP - 876 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gleiß, Alexander A1 - Lewandowski, Stefanie T1 - Removing barriers for digital health through organizing ambidexterity in hospitals JF - Journal of public health N2 - Aim Hospitals noticeably struggle with maintaining hundreds of IT systems and applications in compliance with the latest IT standards and regulations. Thus, hospitals search for efficient opportunities to discover and integrate useful digital health innovations into their existing IT landscapes. In addition, although a multitude of digital innovations from digital health startups enter the market, numerous barriers impede their successful implementation and adoption. Against this background, the aim of this study was to explore typical digital innovation barriers in hospitals, and to assess how a hospital data management platform (HDMP) architecture might help hospitals to extract such innovative capabilities. Subject and methods Based on the concept of organizational ambidexterity (OA), we pursued a qualitative mixed-methods approach. First, we explored and consolidated innovation barriers through a systematic literature review, interviews with 20 startup representatives, and a focus group interview with a hospital IT team and the CEO of an HDMP provider. Finally, we conducted a case-study analysis of 36 digital health startups to explore and conceptualize the potential impact of DI and apply the morphological method to synthesize our findings from a multi-level perspective. Results We first provide a systematic and conceptual overview of typical barriers for digital innovation in hospitals. Hereupon, we explain how an HDMP might enable hospitals to mitigate such barriers and extract value from digital innovations at both individual and organizational level. Conclusion Our results imply that an HDMP can help hospitals to approach organizational ambidexterity through integrating and maintaining hundreds of systems and applications, which allows for a structured and controlled integration of external digital innovations. KW - Digital innovation KW - Digital health KW - Hospital innovation KW - Innovation KW - barriers KW - Organizational ambidexterity Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-021-01532-y SN - 2198-1833 SN - 1613-2238 VL - 30 IS - 1 SP - 21 EP - 35 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER -