institutions. The authors then provide pragmatic recommendations to resolve such
issues from the policy and managerial perspectives.
Although these chapters cover a wide variety of topics, there could be some
similarities in the innovation cases and recommendations that appear in each of the
chapters. Those similarity aspects include, but not limited to, the following:
– Translationality is a fundamental basis of value co-creation.
– Value co-creation can be affected by translational actors or innovators who spin
over systems’ boundaries, i.e., disciplines, technologies, and practices.
– Innovators are people who bridge various fields and expertise without being
bound by the existing framework.
– New combinations of different competencies, disciplines, technologies, and
practices trigger innovation in healthcare.
– Translationality sets the fundamental basis of systemic transition from an existing
system into another form of the system.
– The creative combination and fusion of various disciplines, technologies, and
contexts initiate with the mutual use of information and knowledge.
– Creative disruption of established frameworks, fixed values, ideas, and systems
can serve as a salient key to driving innovation.
– The evolution of health informatics for innovation is an urgent need.
The editor believes that the present volume, as a part of the Translational Systems
Science series, will certainly contribute to promoting research on health informatics
as well as systems science with insightful findings and implications based on the
translational approach.
Chiba-shi, Chiba, Japan
Hironobu Matsushita
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