Gpi continues its journey toward developing a model to measure the social impact of healthcare technologies. Akylai Anarbaeva, a researcher from the Group’s R&D department, has recently published the article “Accounting for downstream value chain: examining the accountability for social impact of digitalisation” in the Meditari Accountancy Research. This work builds upon her three-year doctoral project, carried out in collaboration with Gpi, and offers a broader exploration of the challenges posed by this complex topic.
The article expands on her doctoral research, which focused on understanding how to measure the social impact of healthcare technologies developed by the Group. This latest publication delves deeper into how digital technologies can create positive social impacts across the value chain, with particular emphasis on the challenges of engaging and measuring outcomes for key user groups such as doctors, patients, and citizens.
Three key issues are addressed: the need for robust, preferably primary, data to accurately measure the social impact of digital technologies; the challenges of relying on secondary data, which is often less reliable; and the ethical and regulatory dilemmas involved in balancing transparency with privacy, as required by European directives.
This publication marks an important milestone in an ongoing journey. Gpi remains committed to combining academic expertise with industrial innovation to tackle the critical challenge of achieving sustainable digital transformation in healthcare.
