Entrepreneurial digital strategy as managerial tool for building smart hospital

Purpose: to build the research model of Entrepreneurial Digital Strategy (EDS) as crucial managerial tool for shaping hospitals as smart, network oriented organisations. Design/methodology/approach: the main research method is a systematic literature review in order to conceptualize the EDS as crucial driver of shaping hospitals as smart, network oriented organisations. Statistical analyses using data from OECD Health were used to present chosen input and output indicators of Polish national healthcare system. Findings: the proposition of research model of EDS as the digital technology road map towards building the smart hospital based on cost and quality performance healthcare processes. Additionally, using chosen statistical data, the Polish national healthcare system in the world context is presented. Research limitations/implications: the concept of smart organization is still not widely recognized in management science, so it is difficult to create detailed model of hospital assessment as a smart organization. Simultaneously, the current scientific output consulting company knowledge in this field is enough to create especially strategic concepts of smart hospital. Practical implications: the draft of practical managerial tool for hospital managers who are going to transform their hospitals towards smart ones is presented in the article. Social implications: the article has a special social impact which consist of strategic management concept oriented towards managing the challenges of today hospitals (esp. public ones). These challenges are concentrated on simultaneous need for quality growth and cost reduction. Originality/value: the concept presented in the article is the part of assumptions of new managerial model suited for hospital transformation towards smart organization.