title: Current challenges for healthcare services and the opportunities created by the marketing abilities.
abstract: Life is changing dramatically, market position as part of life is becoming more and more important, and marketing, considered a key cultural architect of nowadays that involves voluntary relation exchanges between the communicating partners, is placing the patient in the center of most adequate action towards the medical future which represents his life quality. We think that the moment has come to resort to marketing as a new method to identify innovation opportunities in healthcare services' delivery, considering that the high quality of healthcare services, answering to demands of healthcare systems' consumers, represents a well recognized priority for the European citizens. Consequently, the model of "healthcare business" has to rely on the value for patient by creating competition concerning the results at medical condition level.
authors.affiliation: Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Popa
authors.forename: Theodor
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Purcărea
authors.forename: Victor Lorin
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Purcărea
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Raţiu
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D004465:Economic Competition / Q000639:trends*; D005060:Europe; D006296:Health Services / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008389:Marketing of Health Services / Q000639:trends*